Hi All again,

Since I got such a great response from my last WishList I am going to post
another.

Again, I hope that this is possible and that I am just ignorant of how to
use the WebViewer or ignorant of an Elegant Workaround or even an inelegant
Kludge.

WishList: be able to point a WebViewer window to the content of a field and
have its content render as html.

I think it would be useful even if I just wanted to use HTML's tools to
display a bunch of data as HTML formatted text (1. Which values and the
manner in which I display the data is more able to be dynamically altered
without any Layout changes. 2. It allows separation of Code and Display at a
"middle tier" between the data and the layout.)

Further, it could get really fancy.

I could have a Web Form built within a text field by script. I can build it
so that many, many data fields autopopulated. I can have certain values as
html hidden fields (business rules say include that data in the form, but
you don't want the end user to know it (SS#, TaxID, Chart Number, Diagnosis
Code). And I can limit selections in drop-downs based on User Access
Privileges. Then have the Submit button send it off to any B-to-B vendor, or
service, or billing entity or... Another great advantage is that I can save
the html of that submitted form in its entirity to a table of Submitted
Forms as a logging mechanism.

As it is now the only Kludge I can think to use is the very FM6-ish: Write
the file to the desktop (or other local folder) and launch it with your
browser.

(Indeed, I did just this in FM6 with great effect. Some sites have gotten
sophisticated and won't accept a form submission from an "outside source",
but when I contacted the web guy at the target site and explained my purpose
[and that my client was a really good customer of theirs] we agreed on
another Hidden value I could pass in the form that would expire every three
months that would allow an exception to that block.)

Of course, while FileMaker is at it, they should add the ability to open a
local (non-served) html file. However, this is only as an obvious
enhancement between only served files and field content -- if I could render
field content I can't think of a good use of opening local files.

Just my two cents...

Thanks for any replies.
-- 
Sincerely,
Brad

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