Copying contents of a Web Viewer Object

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I want my script to select the contents of the web object & copy and paste the contents in a field. then I have a calculation based on

I have the script go to the object, but will not select all. Seems like it should be simple. What am I missing?

Thanks,

Caroline

[Lee Smith]

Why aren't you using "Source" and "Content" for this?

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Instead of copy/paste, give your web viewer an object name, then use the GetLayoutObjectAttribute() function to get the content:

http://www.filemaker.com/11help/html/func_ref3.33.9.html#1027917

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Instead of copy/paste, give your web viewer an object name, then use the GetLayoutObjectAttribute() function to get the content:

http://www.filemaker.com/11help/html/func_ref3.33.9.html#1027917

Yes why am I not using GetLayoutObjectAttribute(), good question! Well I created a script that uses that function but it does not get all the content of the web viewer object, just the header. This function does not work as a calculation.

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AFAIK, you cannot programmatically copy the rendered page from a web viewer when using Windows:

http://fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/199043/post/307569/#307569

it does not get all the content of the web viewer object, just the header.

That doesn't seem very likely. Perhaps you mean the real content is in a frame? If so, trying pointing your web viewer to the URL of the frame instead.

Of course, scraping the HTML off the web viewer should be the last choice for getting data from the web, not first.