Hi Scott, Are there built-in FDK functions for accessing ODBC? Thanks.
Rick -----Original Message----- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro....@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 4:30 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: [Framers] database access from Extendscript? Hmm. You can connect to ODBC through the FDK .. could probably expose that to an ExtendScript call. Of course, if you're going to do part of it in FDK, you might as well do all of it there. I wonder if it's possible to make Ajax calls from ExtendScript .. probably not. But if that was possible, you could use that to pull your data from the "cloud" (if your data was there). Probably not terribly useful thoughts .. ...scott On 2/27/17 1:19 PM, Alan Houser wrote: > Thanks, Rick. Appreciated. Most of my automated publishing projects > are XML-based. But on occasion (like this one) the client wants to go > directly from an ODBC connection. > > Alas, there are still good reasons to use FrameScript! > > -Alan > > > On 2/27/17 3:45 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: >> Hi Alan, >> >> The short answer is no, ExtendScript doesn't have any built-in ODBC >> capabilities. The closest you can get is to see if your database >> content can be exported to XML and then use ExtendScript to parse and >> import the XML to FrameMaker. ExtendScript has a built-in XML object >> that is pretty good. It has an xpath method that lets you perform >> XPath 1.0 queries on the XML object. >> >> Rick >> >> Rick Quatro >> Carmen Publishing Inc. >> r...@frameexpert.com >> 585-366-4017 >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Framers >> [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro....@lists.frameusers.com] On >> Behalf Of Alan Houser >> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 3:18 PM >> To: framers@lists.frameusers.com >> Subject: [Framers] database access from Extendscript? >> >> Colleagues, >> >> I'm a bit spoiled by the FrameScript database utilities, and am >> trying to do similar database publishing with Extendscript. For those >> on the list who have worked with both, does Extendscript provide any >> database I/O capabilities? (I believe the answer is "no"). If it does >> not, is there a Javascript library that you've found to be workable? >> >> -Alan >> >> -- >> Alan Houser >> Group Wellesley, Inc. >> Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing arh on Twitter >> 412-450-0532 >> > > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's > homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
