[FX.php List] container file reference

Pete Jag sujag2100 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 6 17:54:58 MDT 2006


The solution does need to be accessed from both the
web and inside the filemaker app but mainly from the
FM.

Any more suggestions?

--- Dale Bengston <dbengston at preservationstudio.com>
wrote:

> Hi Pete,
> 
> If this is purely a web-based solution, you could
> store a path to the  
> file in a text field and use that to allow users to
> retrieve or  
> display the file, depending on what type of file it
> is.
> 
> If this is a situation where users are also viewing
> container-field  
> contents client-server, then it's not so easy. It
> looks like the  
> "insert file" script step can't set the contents of
> a container field  
> to the text path in a field. If it could, you could
> capture the path  
> to the file with FX, put it in a text field, and
> then call a  
> FileMaker script to display it in the container
> field. Maybe there's  
> another way to do this same thing. Anyone else
> tackled this one?
> 
> Regards,
> Dale Bengston
> 
> On Jun 5, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Pete Jag wrote:
> 
> > Is there anyway to use FX.php to set a container
> field to use a  
> > file reference (cross platform)?  The article
> below gives some  
> > detail but it is all inside the Filemaker
> application. I am looking  
> > to use FX.php.
> >
> > >This article (http://doc.advisor.com/doc/15011)
> talks about  
> > setting a container field >with a reference to a
> file:
> > Thanks in advance
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