FM14 - Passing Script Parameters into a Web Direct URL

[James Gill]

Since this feature is now back in FileMaker 14, I figure I'll ask here.  How you do pass multiple parameters into a Web Direct script?  All the docs say is

http://<host>/fmi/webd#<database name>[?script=<script name>[&param=<script parameter>][&<$variable name>=<value>]]

But it doesn't say anything about passing multiple parameters.  Do I have to set up my own delimiter or is there a specific syntax I need to use for the first parameter, second parameter, etc?

Edited July 15, 2015 by James Gill

[dwdata]

Yeah - this should be more straight forward (pure FileMaker). A couple of useful links:

http://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/2015/01/extending-webdirect-url-parameters

https://github.com/SoliantMike/FM-WebDirect_Params

I have not yet to use this, but the schema seems to make sense. Fi you decide to go with it, please share your success.

Good luck!

[James Gill]

I guess what I'm saying is that this feature appears to be bugged, unless I'm doing something incorrectly.  I posted a thread in the community forums, lets see if it goes anywhere.

https://community.filemaker.com/message/196272#196272

[James Gill]

Looks like it was a syntax error on my end; I assumed that the example included the '$' in front of the variable as an example, but it turns out that you have to pass the entire '$variableName=variableValue' string as the syntax for each named variable.

Edited July 28, 2015 by James Gill

[xochi]

I've noted that there are two variations of the syntax:

http://<host>/fmi/webd#<database name>

 

and

 

http://<host>/fmi/webd/<database name>

 

Note the subtle difference, one uses "#databasename" the other uses "/databasename"  - I think that some browsers treat the hashtag strangely so I've standardized on using the "/databasename" version.

Edited January 31, 2016 by xochi