Hello,

I am trying to write an applescript which automatically launches
filemaker 8 and tells filemaker to open a remote file. I have isolated
the code to do this:

Tell application "FileMaker Pro"
activate
getURL "fmp7://user:pass@serverIP/Database Name"
end tell

I would like to add in some error detection to this script, so that if
the FM server or if another problem occurs when it tries to open the
database an admin gets alerted (email) to the issue. Can someone tell
me how I can do this in filemaker? Is there a good reference for all
FM8 applescript calls?

Thanks for all your help.
Deepti

I recently cloned a database that contained a portal. Went to the table
to which the portal linked and created a new field, then went back home
and tried to add that field in the portal. Field appeared on the layout,
but when I tried to drag it to a position in the portal it ended up
*under* the portal. Tried fiddling with "Bring to front" and "Send to
back." Can get the field to be in front of the portal, but it's still
not in it: move the portal and the field stays put.

I've solved some portal problems in the past by trashing and creating a
new portal. Tried that. A dialog comes up to select the fields you want
in the portal. When the portal appears, all those fields are there--but
they're not in the portal. Move the portal and they slide off. Move a
field and resize it, and when you let go it disappears under the portal.

I can still add fields to the portal in the original database.

What's going on here?

I have a couple of issues with producing labels within FM 9.3
(Windows).

1. The label size that I use (Avery L7160, 6.35x3.81 cm) is not
listed. Is there a way of obtaining additional label types for FM to
use?

2. Having set up the label using "custom measurements" (fiddly!), the
end product is OK in Preview mode, but when I save to PDF, the
positioning of the fields is wrong (top row of labels OK, but all
subsequent rows move slightly up the page, so that the bottom 2 rows
of labels miss the top of the label). It looks to me as though the
PDF has a slightly smaller font than when I print it directly from
Preview mode. Obviously the solution is to print from Preview, but I
need the users to be able to save label sets as PDFs.

Any ideas warmly received!

Dave.

sean@codexdata.com wrote:

Hello,

I use FM 8 and one of the table definition in the database is suddenly
missing. I am not even sure if the data is still there. Is there a way
I could recover the table?

PLEASE HELP!
Thanks!
Deepti

WinXPsp2, FM8.5adv

Web page access does not allow entering a usreID or password even though I
selected "Allow interaction with web content".

Any clues?

Hi,
my database is automatically published to 192.168.0.100. But no one
outside the house can access this IP address.I'd like to publish the
db on the Internet, without the necessity to keep FM running and
online all the time. Yet the access privileges (certain layouts are
only accessible to certain users) must be maintained.

Practically speaking, I'd like to publish a database containing
information about my pupils for their parents.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thank you very much!

ich

I have a problem with value list. When I enter the text lines and I
press ENTER, instead to go to next line, box it's closed, like if you
click with mouse on OK button. This happen using both keyboard RETURN.
This happen with FM 8 adv. and FM 9 adv., after many months of normal
using FM.
I uninstalled and then installed again, applied patch, checked keyboard
settings, changed keyboard, SO is Windows XP Pro SP3 updated. Problem
still remain.
I called the FM service but they can not solve the problem.
If I create a runtime application, or use the file .FP7 on another
computers everything works properly. So it's a my internal problem. But
what ?
Someone has a suggestion to try to resolve the problem.
Thank you.

Sauro

In article <160920081931103988%%final@dex.sysmatrix.net>, Lee Steffeck
dex.sysmatrix.net> wrote:

In article <150920081845513553%%helpful_harry@nom.de.plume.com>, Helpful
Harry nom.de.plume.com> wrote:

Yes indeedy, I learned that one the hard way some time ago.

True and I knew that. Matt was kind enough to leave it completely
unlocked for novices like me to poke around in and through.