Trigger scripts via url in a runtime solution.

March 7, 201312 yr

I currently have a solution that creates a .bat file and runs it. When the .bat file is done running it calls a URL that triggers a script that displays an all done dialog box. This all works fine with I run my solution in filemaker. If I try to do this from a runtime solution, the URL call from the .bat file causes filemaker to open to a blank screen.

I have a feeling that It is due to runtime solutions not being a shared database. Can anyone give some insight to this? Perhaps a work around?

Here is the source for the URL calling:

http://www.filemaker.com/12help/html/sharing_data.16.7.html

March 7, 201312 yr

Runtimes do not work on a server.

March 7, 201312 yr

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Thanks for the response.

Let me elaborate some more.

The file, let's call it "foo", I have isn't on a server. I run it locally on an xp machine in advanced. On a button click the file creates a batch file in the same folder as my foo file. Foo then run the batch file. At the end of the batch scripts I have a command that opens a url. Something like fmp://192.162.0.0/foo.fmp/?script=AllDone. This calls back to my foo file that launched the batch file and triggers a script that says all done.

That all works fine.

I want to be able to be able to replicate the process with a runtime solution.

March 8, 201312 yr

Runtime solutions don't have the networking abilities that FM has. So my guess is that when you are calling the "fmp://..." address, this is where it is failing again due to these limitations in the Runtimes.