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
