FMP v.6
When I first launched the program, there was a screen with 3
radio-button options and a checkbox to never show this screen again.
How do I get that screen back?

and another one...
How can I create a desktop shortcut to a Db that's on a Remote Host?

Thanks.

In article <1129319062.398733.192900 (AT) g47g2000cwa (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
dvd9 (AT) excite (DOT) com wrote:

I've only tried this in FileMaker 5.5 since that's all I've got on this
particular computer, but:

- Go to File and choose New Database, the window should
reappear and you can turn on the "don't show" option

If that doesn't work you may have to first:

- Go to Preferences -> Application

- In the General section, make sure that
"Show templates in New Database dialog"
is turned ON and click OK

- Then go to File and choose New Database, the window
should reappear and you can turn off the "dont show"
option



Do NOT create a shortcut of the hosted databases icon. That will cause
FileMaker to use the operating system's filesharing rather than
FileMaker's own - and that's a no-no.

The only way is to create a new database with a single script that has
the Open[] command in it. Use the options to Specify File and in the
normal Open dialog window that appears you can choose Hosts and then
choose the appropriate hosted file (which obviously needs to be open at
the time). Set the Preferences -> Document options so this script is
run on Opening.

You can put this small database on the local computer, either on the
Desktop itself or a shortcut to it. When the user opens this local
database it will automatically connect to the original Hosted database
.... assuming it is Hosted.

You can get fancy and add error handling in there if needed.
eg. something like:

Set Error Capture [On]
Open[HostedDatabase]
If [Status(CurrentError) <> 0]
Beep
Show Message["Database is not open on Host computer"]
End If
Close [ShortcutDatabase]

Note: Simply getting a Status(CurrentError) which isn't 0 doesn't
really mean the hosted database isn't open. Could could mean any of
various of errors, but that would be the basic one in this case - the
hosted database isn't visible on the network for some reason.




Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

Can't he create a shortcut that goes something like "fmnet://...."

Bill

"Helpful Harry" <helpful_harry (AT) nom (DOT) de.plume.com> wrote

In article <4fWdndQCzodgq83eRVn-tw (AT) comcast (DOT) com>, "Bill Marriott"
<wjm (AT) wjm (DOT) org> wrote:

I don't quite know what that means.

BUT
any shortcut that points directly at the original file stored on
another computer will use the OS file sharing, which is a no-no (or
supposedly is, I have quite often done this over the years with minor /
unimportant databases and have had no problems ... so far). Of course
any shortcut pointing directly at the file won't open it if it's
already in use anyway.

The only proper way to get at a FileMaker hosted file is through
FileMaker's Open Host function or using a web browser. This can be done
via the small local database method or via something like AppleScript
to automatically open FileMaker and then open the appropriate hosted
database.


Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

If a user wants a desktop shortcut to the file ABC.fm7 on the server
DeptServer, they should be able to create a shortcut on the desktop which
points to location "fmnet:/DeptServer/ABC" -- should work as long as the
mime type fmnet is registered to FileMaker Pro.

Bill

"Helpful Harry" <helpful_harry (AT) nom (DOT) de.plume.com> wrote