Triggering Filemaker scripts using the filemaker URL scheme

[OzzieOzzum]

Say I have a webviewer running a javascript count down timer. Is it possible using the filemaker URL Scheme to trigger filemaker scripts from this webviewer ?

 

[bruceR]

That's an old URL format.

 

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

 

FMP://192.168.10.0/filename.fmp12?script=scriptname

[jbante]

If you're just trying to trigger the script to run at a certain time from within FileMaker Go, rather than from another app running on iOS, why don't you just use the OnTimer script trigger?

[OzzieOzzum]

If you're just trying to trigger the script to run at a certain time from within FileMaker Go, rather than from another app running on iOS, why don't you just use the OnTimer script trigger?

 

Atleast on the Desktop, Whenever I tried creating a count down timer with OnTimer Script trigger, that updated a visual representation of time left using a progress bar...

 

1.The screen flickered everytime the progressbar was updated by a script step

2. Filemaker wouldn't let me do anything on the fields during this update. So if I were to run the progressbar updating everysecond, I couldnt do anything useful on the screen until the count down finished.

 

There is already that article about Javascript countdown timers in Filemaker using a webviewer. The technique looks very complicated. So wanted to know if I could use a javascript countdown timer which when reaches zero could trigger a script using the FMP URL Scheme before going down that path.

Or may be there is a different way of using the OnTimer Script trigger to create a progressbar that visually represents the time a user has left to enter data in a layout? May be this flicker is not there on Mac or iOS ?

 

Thanks for any suggestions

[mr_vodka]

You should be able to create and call the function. Something like:

 

 

 

EDIT: Sorry had to add as image because the forums didnt like the code snippet.

[jbante]

You could still render the countdown timer in a web viewer, and only trigger the operation being counted down to with the OnTimer script.