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


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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.

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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

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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.

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