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
