FTPeek_DownloadFileToContainer and PDFs in Interactive Containers

[David Wikström]

It seems that, when you download a PDF to a container field using FTPeek, the resulting field data conforms to the behavior of the native "Insert file", which means that the container field will just display the file icon, but not the actual PDF the way you get if you use "Insert picture" or "Insert PDF" and an interactive container field.

 

So far I've tested this in FMPA 12.0v5 on OS X 10.8.5, but I would expect this behavior to be the same across platforms/versions.

 

This obviously makes the use of FTPeek a lot less interesting when you do need to display interactive content.

Does anyone know of a way to make this work? Could FTPeek be modified to integrate this kind of interactive container functionality?

 

Interestingly, native Insert from URL (which of course also allows me to use FTP) handles this fine.

 

In the specific case I'm working on right now, the number of files to download is very significant, so I'd rather not do something stupid like export the files to temp and re-insert using Insert Picture/Insert from URL.

 

 

 

[RodM]

Maybe my answers might help yours, just finished moments ago   a msgs here Zipfile(src;des) today

 

I uploaded FM files  then zipped, following a UploadFromContainer   ;  ZipFile( cmd) in one command

 

the reverse of yours  I am new with this too... but it worked

 

Rod

 

i uploaded.. keep forgetting then attach...   here 2 images

[David Wikström]

Sorry, I fail to see the relevance for my issue...