I have been experimenting with thsi plug in to build a full text searching tool. I used Scribe to extract the text of the documents based on the url.

I would then search the records for hits using Filemaker finds.

Once this found set was retrieved I wanted to use the ScribeHighlight function to highlight the text.

The first thing I was trying to solve was whether there was a function/method to take my FileMaker search critiera and convert it into a plain language expression to be used by the Scribe Highlight. For example if I was searching in FileMaker for, "brad chase" gates , could I get this converted into brad+gates|gates which could be used by the Scribe Highlight function to automatically highlight hits?

The other thing I was wondering about is how this woudl work in a mulit user environment. Would I need to create a global field to hold the resulting fields with the highlighting applied?

Thanks

Martin

I have reconsidered the need to convert the FileMaker search query into plain language expression. (Would still like to know if it can be done). My revised thinking of the requirements goes like this. I will want to use FileMaker to search the text fields and retreive the corresponding items. However, once found, I may want to look at this found set and use the Scribe highlight to find quite different text. If I want to highlight the text from the query I could just type that into the pattern text field. Might still be nice to have the query as the default highlighted text but ...

It's possible to do this with filemaker, though it's not the simplest scripting. You may want to check out DocuBin which has this functionality built in.