Yes, I downloaded the files and they look good. I will investigate this myself as your approach is terrific. FM is a very underestimated app. People think it's a toy, something it's definitely not. Please keep me up to date on this.
Best, Bob On Feb 11, 2008, at 7:26 PM, Bruce Robertson wrote: > Pretty easy once I got some help on the "included data" method. > > However, the bugs noted here are a problem if you want to do it "live" > inside the web viewer as I do. > > Besides holding all the data in FileMaker, you could pull the data > together > and export the HTML file or exporting just the JSON data. I would > really > like to keep exploring the best way to do this. > > Did you download and investigate at the example file? > >> How hard was it to drive exhibit with FM. This is something I am very >> interested in doing as I work with FM a great deal. Awesome post. >> >> Regards, >> >> Bob Moran >> On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Bruce Robertson wrote: >> >>> I have been working with using Exhibit with included data, >>> connecting it to >>> a FileMaker database. >>> >>> You can see this here: >>> >>> <http://207.202.207.132/fmi/iwp/> >>> >>> Choose Exhibit, >>> Login admin, no password >>> >>> Note: this is using the development version of Filemaker server, so >>> the >>> number of connections is limited. Also, it is on a residential DSL >>> line with >>> moderate upload speed. >>> >>> >>> The idea is that the user might select particular FileMaker data >>> and choose >>> to view or report on it. Ultimately I'd like to make this a kind of >>> generic >>> solution. >>> >>> At this point I am not really using the Filemaker data, but instead >>> I am >>> just holding static JSON data in a field and having a replace >>> operation pull >>> the data into the HTML for Exhibit. >>> >>> The view you will see using the above link use a FileMaker feature >>> called >>> "Instant Web Publishing" ( IWP ) >>> >>> The "Viewer" tab uses a FileMaker feature called a "Web Viewer". >>> This uses >>> Webkit to see anything specified by a URL that has associated with >>> the Web >>> Viewer. >>> >>> >>> Finally we get to the problem statement: >>> >>> All of this works fairly well in IWP; but that is not how I want to >>> use this >>> feature. >>> >>> Insteasd, I want it to be visible in the standard client version of >>> FileMaker. If you have FileMaker 9 and wish to try this, the >>> example file is >>> here: >>> >>> <http://www.concise-design.com/downloads/exhibit.zip> >>> >>> This works fairly well but there seems to some kind of refesh or >>> cache issue >>> and frequently you will get an incomplete view that looks like this: >>> >>> <http://concise-design.com/downloads/exhibitproblem.png> >>> >>> If I go to the original Nobelists page and refresh it twice, then >>> go back to >>> my included-data view, it will work properly again. >>> >>> >>> Bruce Robertson >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
