I would. I have 9 advanced so doing a runtime is doable. Bob Moran On Dec 12, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Bruce Robertson wrote:
> > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
