Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] Extract data from report

2004-02-27 Thread Dan Stein
If you don't need to do it on the fly Filemaker is real good at this. on 2/26/04 22:10, John Shaw at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, This is way off topic and not even web related, so stop reading if you don't want to waste your time on it. A legacy system, which I have no control

Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] Extract data from report

2004-02-27 Thread Dan Stein
What I mean is if you don't have to take the report parse it and manipulate it on a moment to moment basses. If you need to periodically get the report then move it into SQL tables or something like that then Filemaker will do a good job for you and it is easy to manipulate the data once it is in

RE: Witango-Talk: converting from arg userreference to cookie

2004-02-27 Thread Robert Shubert
Note that if you've been using build 065 of the server, you have, in a sense, already made the switch, since this version of the server has been preferring the cookie over the [search|post] ARGs. If your system is working now (under 065), you should see little, if any, effect by removing the USR

RE: Witango-Talk: Raising thread pool size

2004-02-27 Thread Robert Shubert
Jeff, My experience is in Windows, so this might not fully apply. Also, the post by Phil is worth its weight... You should note that LOWERING the THREADPOOLSIZE is generally a good thing, as Witango (the daemon) needs to do less managing of threads, and spends more time processing. As you saw,

Re: Witango-Talk: French Characters not displaying properly

2004-02-27 Thread Louise Lane
I will be out of the office until the afternoon of Thursday, February 26th. For urgent matters, please contact JoAnn Pilon or Dominique Demore. Sincerely, Louise Lane TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to

RE: Witango-Talk: [OT] Extract data from report

2004-02-27 Thread Chuck Lockwood
I highly recommend a product called Monarch whenever you need to extract data from text files. It makes it quick and easy. Conbine it with data from other sources as well. http://www.datawatch.com Chuck Lockwood LockData Technologies, Inc.

Re: Witango-Talk: French Characters not displaying properly

2004-02-27 Thread Rick Sanders
Bonjour Louise! 1- How are the characters being saved to the database? HTML code, or ASCII? 2- What type of database field is it? Character, numeric, etc... Let me know, and I'll be able to help. Rick Sanders When data is brought across from FileMaker to display online, using Witango, all

RE: Witango-Talk: French Characters not displaying properly

2004-02-27 Thread Troy Sosamon
My guess is that you need to use the correct font by enclosing your text in the [font tag for the font you need. French does not need special encoding for the page. Troy Sosamon -Original Message- From: Louise Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 7:36 AM To:

Re: Witango-Talk: French Characters not displaying properly

2004-02-27 Thread Dan Stein
He is on Mac OSX with Filemaker unlimited. Viewing from IE windows browser. She is getting the characters but the wrong ones. on 2/27/04 10:23, Troy Sosamon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess is that you need to use the correct font by enclosing your text in the [font tag for the font you

Re: Witango-Talk: French Characters not displaying properly

2004-02-27 Thread Louise Lane
The database is FileMaker 5.5 Unlimited served by FileMaker 5.5v2 Both the FileMaker Server and Witango application boxes are Mac OS 10.2 The characters are saved to the database using ASCII codes. They are in a regular text field. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bonjour Louise! 1- How are the

Witango-Talk: Assigning Datasource Dynamically

2004-02-27 Thread Dan Stein
IO am trying to do this for the 1st time and I think I am missing something. I have a simple taf set up just to test it. This is the 1st step in rebuilding a application that will assign a whole lot of functions dynamically. Where am I going wring. -- Dan Stein Digital Software Solutions 799

RE: Witango-Talk: [OT] Extract data from report

2004-02-27 Thread Wolf, Gene
We parse electronic documents all the time here and we use Witango. If your headings and footings are similar, for examples our are the same except for page number, department number and date, you can find them easily, take any information you want out of them (for example, our reports always

Re: Witango-Talk: Assigning Datasource Dynamically

2004-02-27 Thread Dan Stein
Never mind I will work with Scotts article and get back to the list if that does not work for me. on 2/27/04 10:41, Dan Stein at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IO am trying to do this for the 1st time and I think I am missing something. I have a simple taf set up just to test it. This is the 1st

Re: Witango-Talk: French Characters not displaying properly

2004-02-27 Thread Rick Sanders
Hi Louise, Here's a great resource for HTML accent codes: http://www.starr.net/is/type/htmlcodes.html Anyways, the problem with ASCII codes is the @CHAR tag displays different charactes above number 127 depending on the operating system of the WiTango server. The best bet is to use the HTML

Re: Witango-Talk: Raising thread pool size

2004-02-27 Thread Jeff Bohmer
That helps a lot. Thanks! - Jeff Generalising a little ... Well a lot ... On a unix system (OS X, Linux, Solaris, etc) the scheduling is done via process not threads so if you are wanting more CPU time for your application you should run multiple processes. Each process within its cpu time

RE: Witango-Talk: Raising thread pool size

2004-02-27 Thread Jeff Bohmer
It sounds like the Pro app server is the way to go for us. (Was kinda hoping for a real easy quick improvement.) We'll be sure to test different mixes of processes and THREADPOOLSIZE. Otherwise, I think changing our code will yield the biggest benefits but takes the most time/effort. But

RE: Witango-Talk: Assigning Datasource Dynamically

2004-02-27 Thread Ben Johansen
Dan, Witango isn't going to create an entry in the ODBC administration. There has to be an entry in the ODBC manager and you just set the name to match it. Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com Authorized Witango MDaemon Reseller Available for Witango Developement -Original Message-

Re: Witango-Talk: Meta Redirect

2004-02-27 Thread Bill Conlon
Why not do a 302 redirect in the http header? I am trying to do a meta redirect and trying to pass some arguments along with it. I keep getting a 403 Permissions Error. I am not allowed to access / on the server. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong or is there a work around for this???

RE: Witango-Talk: Meta Redirect

2004-02-27 Thread Willochell, Mike
Webdude, Here is what I often use: meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=download\@SEARCHARG file This works great as a redirector. The number is the number of seconds to wait before refreshing. Zero instantly redirects. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Witango-Talk: Meta Redirect

2004-02-27 Thread webdude
This is exactly what I am using. and I get the error. I don't get it. I think I have a permissions problem... Webdude, Here is what I often use: meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=download\@SEARCHARG file This works great as a redirector. The number is the number of seconds to wait before