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FMP: hyperlinks in outlook

Zippy Aus
in Windows Automation

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Hi all

 

Has anyone successfully registered the FMP protocol so that users can click hyperlinks in outlook.

 

If you type http://somewhere.comor mailto:[email protected] or ftp://here.com  and send the email they will appear as hyperlinks in outlook when the recipeint gets them.

 

This is not the case with FMP:// ... I would like my internal users to be able to click the links.  THe only way I have found to do it is to actually create the links as hyperlinks.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

ZP

  • Author

Hi Jerry

 

I would be interested in seeing that.  Currently I use an http scheme whereby the link included in the email is formatted http://our_intranet.com/redirect.php?url=fmp://fmserver.com/Database?script=PRINT&var=1649

 

The redirect.php is simply

<?php 

$url=$_GET['url'];
$var=$_GET['var'];
$link = $url .'&$var=' .$var ;

?>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Redircting</title>
        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;URL='<?php echo $link; ?>'" />
		<script>
		function tricky_win_close() {
top.window.opener = top;
top.window.open(”,’_parent’,”);
top.window.close();
}
</script>
    </head>
	
    <body>
<body onBlur="self.opener=null;tricky_win_close()">
		<p><a href="<?php echo $link; ?>">Redirecting to <?php echo $link; ?></a></p>
    </body>
</html>

<HTML>

The issue I have with this is the user has to go from Outlook, to IE (browser) to Filemaker.

 

Other mail clients seem to translate the protocol to URL, the iPhone even takes you to Go which is sweet.

 

Just a nicety I guess.

 

Thanks for any input.

 

ZP

  • 9 months later...
  • Author

For anyone that comes across this post, there is a solution

 

Prefixing the fmp:// url with URL:

 

URL:fmp://fmserver.com/Database?script=PRINT&var=1649

 

Hope this helps someone out.

 

Zippy

Note this doesn't work with Gmail. The TinyURL ( or other redirect ) methods do work.

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