Hi Brad, Yes, you can make the webviewer display html data that's generated on the fly by filemaker. You can even you a Let statement to define all the fields that are referenced in your html, with all the filemaker tools. All you need in the webviewer calculation window is valid html.
"data:text/html,<html> <head> </head> <body>YOUR FIELD STUFF </body> </html>" With CSS and a good sense on XML generation with your data, the possibilities are large. Of course there are many FM developers that don't see the sense of the work involved in HTML when Filemaker provides adequate tools. Hope this is helpful. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Brad Lowry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
