Funny IWP Behavior

[alterbentzion]

I've set up IWP so that others can read our database over our LAN, but I've encountered two bugs (?) and I need workarounds/fixes/explanations.

 

~ When viewing a list, only five records appear in the browser window, even though there's room for at least twice that many. (the rest of the vertical space is empty, white.

 

~ The toolbar does appear in the client's web browser, on the left-hand side, but clicking on the "sort" button triggers a popup window which disappears in a flash.

 

Now, I know that IWP is optimized for MS Internet Explorer (IE) 6. But I've kinda disabled it on all of our PC's because I've gotten sick of fighting popups and malware. (I've got a Mac at my own desk.) Instead, the PC's use FireFox or Opera, with popups disabled. Am I going to have to compromise network security just so people can use my FMP database?

 

Thanks for any and all suggestions.

[J Wenmeekers]

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~ When viewing a list, only five records appear in the browser window, even though there's room for at least twice that many. (the rest of the vertical space is empty, white.

 

 

 

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...you can get a prety good list like view from the new table view.

 

Under the table view properties, include a header part and footer part if you want. Fix up your header your way and slam in any buttons for web scripts that you want.

 

In Filemaker use the layout to reorder the columns and resize them to match your header. Set the row custom height and add grid lines Horiz or Vert.

 

Now the magic. Turn off the stinking column headers... Now it looks like a list view and iwp will pump out 20 lines, not 5, not more or less....

 

But....

 

FileMaker Server 7.0 Advanced v3 Web Publishing Engine

 

From the Fixlist:

1.5.1. Instant Web Publishing now displays 25 records per screen in View as List, and 50 records per screen in View as Table.

 

This change is not documented in Instant Web Publishing Help.

 

HTH