Re: filemaker open url
Re: filemaker open url
- Subject: Re: filemaker open url
- From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 14:00:58 -0400
On or about 8/6/03 9:26 AM, Robert C. Jacobson wrote:
>
> tell application "Filemaker Pro"
>
> set foo to cellvalue of cell "MS KB number"
>
> open location "http://support.microsoft.com/?kbod="; & (foo as string)
>
> end tell
>
>
Sadly, that too give me a transaction error
I don't understand why the open location is inside the FM tell block.
But also, the Knowledge Base site says that changes have been made, and the
URL format appears to be:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;101608
Perhaps your URL is just incorrect?
I tested, in FM 5 and FM 6, constructing the URL as I believe you intended,
with a "stub" URL and then a KBID number appended to make the full URL.
I tried with two different methods. These are tested in a FM script, so
there is no need to "tell" FM. However, I tested also from Smile, with the
"set..." lines inside a tell FileMaker block and these work from there as
well.
The 'open location' does not need to be inside a tell block, OMM.
Method 1: build a text calculation from all "component" fields
set foo to cellValue of cell "url_full_calc"
display dialog foo -- just a test
open location foo -- opens page in browser
Method 2: let AppleScript do the concatenation
set foo to cellValue of cell "url_part_one"
set bar to cellValue of cell "url_part_two"
display dialog foo & bar -- just a test
set foobar to foo & bar
display dialog foobar -- just a test
open location foobar -- opens page in browser
--
Gary
MacOS 9.1 / "9 is Fine"
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