How can I get the url from a Web Browser into a filemaker field?

[hownow]

Hi

I am pretty sure there might be a way to get the url of a web page into another filemaker field.  Could someone advise me on how that might be done? Thanks

[eos]

AppleScript can grab a URL and write it into an open FileMaker database.

 

I'm not sure, though, what exactly it is you want, and why: what do "a web page” (which one?), and “another […] field" mean?

 

Maybe describe the scenario in which you need this functionality.

[hownow]

I have had to paste the url (manually select it and copy it and then paste it into a filemaker field. I thought maybe a the filemaker web object might be able to open the website I already have in filemaker and then extract the URL. I am collecting a bunch of website addresses. I would like to avoid having to scroll down and select the URL in the address bar and then copy it and then paste it into the filemaker field. I am looking to put a script together that will automate that.

 

I hope someone can help me with this. Thanks

[hownow]

Is there anyone there who knows how to grab a URL from Firefox address bar and paste into a filemaker field called URLADDRESS?

[Wim Decorte]

If you can let your users browse the internet in a web viewer then you can use the GetLayoutObjectAttribute() function to get the current URL.

If that is not feasible then you will have to revert to OS-level scripting just as Eos mentioned earlier in the thread.  AppleScript will work on OSX, VBscript or PowerShell will work on Windows.  But obviously that is bit more complex.

[hownow]

Thanks