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

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