Re: General question about what is possible re: AS driving JavaScript
Re: General question about what is possible re: AS driving JavaScript
- Subject: Re: General question about what is possible re: AS driving JavaScript
- From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:50:02 +1000
On 12/07/2005, at 1:43 AM, Bill Planey wrote:
Hello,
I wish to build a solution to help my wife follow up on expired real
estate
listings. The solution would take data from FileMaker and have to
somehow
enter it into the correct fields in a web database that
(unfortunately) is
designed to only work properly in Internet Explorer; the page fields
are
definitely JavaScript.
Before I get too deeply into figuring this out, perhaps someone can
tell me:
1) whether this can possibly work
Quite likely. Filemaker provides an excellent interface for
applescript. You shouldn't have any trouble with it.
The issue is with the web site. Does it set cookies? If not you could
get Filemaker to spit out an HTML page which is a replica of the one
you want but the values are already complete. Even simpler, if it
accepts information on the command line you can use Filemaker to build
an URL with the data and have it attached to a button in FMP. If the
web site requires cookies and more complex interaction you may want to
look at the shell script cURL. It's very useful.
2) whether the time spent developing the solution could ever be
recouped by
the savings it would create (we're talking about maybe 100 addresses
per
month at most) - maybe it is still better to copy and paste the
address info
rather than muck around with this programmatically
That's a question you're better qualified to answer. It depends on how
much mucking around is needed the web side.
Malcolm Fitzgerald email@hidden
Database Manager http://www.asauthors.org
The Australian Society of Authors ph: 02 93180877 fax: 02
93180530
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