Re: Opening Filemaker 8 DB
Re: Opening Filemaker 8 DB
- Subject: Re: Opening Filemaker 8 DB
- From: Jay Louvion <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:16:45 +0200
- Thread-topic: Opening Filemaker 8 DB
Title: Re: Opening Filemaker 8 DB
On 19.7.2007 17:27, "Matt Deatherage" <email@hidden> spake thus:
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On 7/19/07 at 4:46 AM, Jay Louvion <email@hidden> wrote:
> Before anyone asks the (good) question, yes, the DB is up and running.
> I can open it by using the ³file/open remote² menu item.
>
> Argh.
>
> Best and looking forward to your feedback, hoping it won¹t be a long
> list of WOMMs
I'm afraid to ask.
Anyway - does the same URL that works in "Open Remote..." fail as the
target of an "open URL" AppleScript command? If so, that's a genuine
problem somewhere; if not, you've got the URL wrong somehow.
(It's easier to do than you think - this is why FileMaker 9 includes a
menu item that creates the URL to a shared database for you. If you've
upgraded, the URL that feature returns is the same URL you'd use in
FileMaker 7 and later, so you can use it for your testing.)
Also, technically, the syntax is:
> FMP7://[account:password@]ipaddress/databasename.fp7
with optional parameters in [brackets] and any spaces in database names
encoded not as " " but as "+" characters. See:
<http://filemaker.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/filemaker.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp
.php?p_faqid=5560>
So make sure that if your file is "My Database.fp7" that your URL ends
with "My+Database.fp7" and not "My Database" or "MyDatabase" or
"My+Database" (without ".fp7"), etc.
If you have the URL right, it should work anywhere, even in Safari's
address bar, so testing is a bit easier.
- --Matt
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Matt Deatherage <email@hidden>
GCSF, Incorporated <http://www.macjournals.com>
"You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.
You are right because your data and reasoning are right."
-- Benjamin Graham
Thanks for asking Matt, I appreciate courage :).
The name of the database in question starts with a space. I‘ll try again tommorrow changing that parameter, since adding the “+” symbol in front didn’t help, though I thought it might be an end to my problems. There is a line described in the open remote dialog that states the “path to file” (which doesn’t seem right, Im not trying to reach the file, just open the DB remotely) starts with “fmnet”. I think the right syntax should start with “FMP7” as you stated.
And just in case I wasn’t clear in my explanation, I’m not AS’ing “open remote”, just using the GUI in the “file” menu – “open remote” to open the remote database.
I’m simply amazed not to have even a kind of “-127893 error” returned in my face when my AS doesn’t work. Never thought I’d say something like that one day.
I’ll keep in touch, best,
j.
Jay Louvion
Studio Casagrande
3, rue Müller-Brun
1208 Geneva
T+4122 840 3272
F+4122 840 3271
www.studiocasagrande.com
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