We've had the WebViewer in FileMaker for a couple years now, but there are still some great uses for this being found. One of the main uses is the Data URL. This allows you to use HTML code without having to have an html file on disk. The source of data can be a field or a script variable.
You can read more about this by following the link to Geoff Coffee's blog entry on Six Fried Rice. I'll keep looking for more cool uses of this.
One of my favorites is to use the webviewer instead of a FileMaker calculation to show the current record number, and the current found count. This is great because it's context universal - you can copy and paste the object to any layout, any database, and it just works. In the end, it's a layout calculation, and is very easy to use.
As much as I love the WebViewer, one thing that's a bit of a pain is syncing up the font size with the FileMaker fonts, which look pretty much the same on Mac and Windows. This is not the case for web code. It varies quite a bit across different machines, so requires some work to make it look the same.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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