Comments on: FileMaker 9 Tip#9: Web Viewers without the Web

By: Charlie Bohm

Charlie Bohm — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:10:50 +0000

I am trying to use this with IWP. If I just use a regular web address, everything works fine. If I use the example, I get a blank box, that has resized.

This is what I have in the web viewer: “data:text/htm,” & Messages::html

Works great in FM, but not in the viewer when viewed via IWP. Could this be something in the HTML?

HELPPP – Demo on Tuesday!

By: Don Hough

Don Hough — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:19:48 +0000

Geoff,

Very useful resource. Is there a way to order the lists? I’ve played with ul & ol tags to no avail. Any suggested resources to find more information?

By: David Thorp

David Thorp — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:13:54 +0000

Geoff,

Makes perfect sense. Thanks!

David.

By: Geoff Coffey

Geoff Coffey — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:38:50 +0000

David:

I don’t think it is documented in FileMaker documentation directly (or at least not thoroughly). That’s because data urls are not really a FileMaker feature. They’re a web standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme) that is supported by the WebKit browser system FileMaker uses on Mac OS X. So originally, FileMaker got this support “for free.”

It became popular among some FileMaker developers, so FileMaker added some special support in a later version so this would work properly on Windows too, where the system-level browser technology did not support it properly. But in the end, it is a web standard, not a web viewer feature.

Hope that clears it up…

Geoff

By: David Thorp

David Thorp — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:37:50 +0000

Geoff, this is great stuff. Nice!

I have a question. Is any of this stuff documented anywhere in FileMaker’s documentation? Is there any definitive documentation for any of this stuff anywhere?

In particular, I’m curious as to what other “data:…” options are there for webviewers?

David.

By: paolo

paolo — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:28:40 +0000

Hello, very cool. I hope I’m not too late….

I would like to modify something in order to get which is the selected record. Is it possible ??

Many thanks.
Paolo

By: Leo Di Croce

Leo Di Croce — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:46:24 +0000

Thank you for this. Brian Schick’s formula is very cool.

By: Stephen Goodson

Stephen Goodson — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:37:51 +0000

I just figured it out. You can get the data from a submitted HTML form all within FileMaker. All with a calculation. And in fact, it’s actually easy if you use an external webpage (”google”) or a local one (index.htm) in your webviewer. Here is the calc:
Let([$url = GetLayoutObjectAttribute ("WebViewer1"; "source") ;
$query = Right($url; Length($URL) - Position($URL; "?";1;1))]
;Substitute ($query;”&”;”¶”))

You only need to parse out the Field/Value data!

I also have it working based on a text field in the database which is an html form. The Webviewer displays that form, and, with a little calculation magic, displays that submitted data using the calc above. I’ll save that one for another time.

By: Tjebbe van Tijen

Tjebbe van Tijen — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:28:43 +0000

landed here because I am looking for a method to grab blocked text inside a webpage displayed in a webviewer and pass it by using some kind of script (AppleScript or Javascript) I use for a long time such a routine with an external webbrowser active window (Safari) whereby I slect an image (classic way right click and copy) and next block some partys of the text in that window; next I enter that data in sets of repeating text and container fields… The image is copied directly from the clipboard and the text is called by a simple Javascript…. Now I want to do the same/similar thing with webpages inside the webviewer and I fail ti find a proper way… It is fro Filemaker pro 10 platform OSX. If needed I can post in this blog my original working script …

By: Geoff Coffey

Geoff Coffey — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:20:07 +0000

@Chris: I’m not sure. I really never use IWP, so I didn’t know about this limitation. Have you tried asking on TechNet? If it can be done, I bet someone out there has done it…

Geoff