I am serving a filemaker solution through filmmaker web direct using Filemaker Server 13.

 

Suddenly I am no longer able to perform a find using web direct. I can perform find when viewing the database outside of web direct.

 

In web direct however, when i click find it goes into find mode with the magnifying glasses in all the fields. When i click on a field, the text cursor blinks once and then I can't type anything in that field. The only way i can type is if I click and hold the mouse button down inside that field. Even when i get text into the field (in a very strange way of holding down the mouse button while typing) when i click perform find nothing happens and i cannot click out of find (cancel find). This happened suddenly and I do have another filemaker solution in which perform find is working in filemaker web direct.

 

 

Thanks for the help. This is very confusing to me.

 

-Erik

I would first check to make sure your using a compatible browser. fm13 webdirect guide page 28. If that is not the issue then make sure your not trying to use layered controls...See appendix a pg 40 of said guide

thanks for the response. Where do i get this guide?

Ignore my last post. I found it online. Here was the problem. One of my portals had a field in it that was not part of the table the portal was referencing. I removed that unnecessary field and search started working again in filemaker web direct again. Gltich or working as designed.... very interesting that a field in a portal would cause the perform functionality in web direct to fail.

 

Thanks for the pointer.

 

-Erik

The Webdirect guide is installed with the Filemaker software, alternatively also available at the FileMaker website.