Yup. I've been working on this also but displaying everything inside a Filemaker web viewer. You're welcome to get in touch and send files or whatever.
Bruce Robertson Concise Design FileMaker 9 Certified On Dec 12, 5:35 am, George A <[email protected]> wrote: > I first heard about the SIMILE Widgets a couple of weeks ago. My boss > was looking for an easy way to allow our K-12 students to create > timelines and these widgets looked great but too hard for our > students. I suggested I might be able to make a FileMaker data base > that could export it's data via XML and XSLT transformations to make > up the needed HTML file and JSON file. I have that working and am > looking into ways to share this with the community. > So far this is what it can do and it's limitations. > Once data is entered or imported into the database it can create a > JSON data file in Timeline format. It can also create a HTML file that > can display any or all of the following depending on the options > chosen in the database. Map, Timeline, Table, Tiles, search and > facets. I saw the Timeplot widget for the first time this morning so > that isn't included right now. HTML and JSON files are created with > the click of a button. The exported html and json files are exported > with the "exhibit" name like billionaires.htm and billionaire.js > Limitations > Using this database requires the user to own FileMaker 8.5 or a > somewhat locked down version which has been made into a runtime > version of the database. I created a Mac only runtime version as a > test and it works. I'm not quite ready to make the runtimes available. > The database alone is onl 136 KB while the runtime is about 30 MB > The "data" that is exported has field names that are set and fairly > limited. They include, label, type, category, who, what where, when, > latLng and imageURL. These can be changed or additional fields added > if you own a copy of FileMaker 8.5 or newer and are willing to change > the export script and the XSLT transformation file that creates the > HTML file. > Are there any FileMaker users out there that would like to try this or > help me make it better? > Is that place for this in the Exhibit Google Code site or is there a > good place to make this available once it gets a little further along? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
