If the Supercontainer Companion Plugin is not installed is there a way to test for an instance of the SuperContainer Server running, when a client tries to connect?

Without the plugin your only option is the webviewer.

You will need a looping script that will test for some reasonable amount of time for some "text" that appears in the content of the webviewer.

Thanks for the information. Raybaudi posted a great example of a timed check for data in a webviewer under the Webviewer section of FMForums, Here .

Edited September 13, 201015 yr by Guest

You may want to add a script step or two to that to check and see how long it is taking to load the page. If the server is not accessible, the URL is bad, or your connection isn't working properly then the page does not load in the web viewer, and the script is stuck in an infinite loop. By adding an additional check or two to compare the time you start the script and the current time you could have it exit the loop if the page doesn't load after however many seconds you want it to wait for.