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Hello,
I am currently doing an internship at a company that works on MAC and uses Filemaker for customer contact management.
I am in charge of reviewing their form to improve data entry and achieve better software usage.
In each customer record, there is the company's website. To view it, you have to copy and paste the website address into Firefox. Do you know what to do so that a simple click is enough to open the web page? (like in Word, for example, where when you type a www.etc, the address turns blue and underlined, and clicking on it opens the page)
Do you also know if clicking on a client's email address can open the email client to send an email directly?
Thank you in advance for your help!!!
I am currently doing an internship at a company that works on MAC and uses Filemaker for customer contact management.
I am in charge of reviewing their form to improve data entry and achieve better software usage.
In each customer record, there is the company's website. To view it, you have to copy and paste the website address into Firefox. Do you know what to do so that a simple click is enough to open the web page? (like in Word, for example, where when you type a www.etc, the address turns blue and underlined, and clicking on it opens the page)
Do you also know if clicking on a client's email address can open the email client to send an email directly?
Thank you in advance for your help!!!
Configuration: Mac OS X Firefox 3.0.6
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Hello,
For the website:
Using URL in a field
You can open a valid URL appearing in a field. FileMaker Pro opens the URL in the default application set on your computer for that type of URL. For example, https URLs open in your default web browser.
To open a URL from a field:
1. Click in the field to select it, then highlight the entire URL.
2. Right-click (Windows) or hold down the ctrl key (Mac OS) while clicking on any part of the URL.
3. Choose Open <URL> from the shortcut menu.
Tip On Mac OS, you can also hold down the ⌘ key and click on any part of the URL text to open it.
For the email:
In Template mode, select the field where the emails are located.
In the format menu, choose button setup.
In the dialog box, near the bottom in various, choose send mail. Note that it is preferable to create a button to insert new email addresses.
Best regards
For the website:
Using URL in a field
You can open a valid URL appearing in a field. FileMaker Pro opens the URL in the default application set on your computer for that type of URL. For example, https URLs open in your default web browser.
To open a URL from a field:
1. Click in the field to select it, then highlight the entire URL.
2. Right-click (Windows) or hold down the ctrl key (Mac OS) while clicking on any part of the URL.
3. Choose Open <URL> from the shortcut menu.
Tip On Mac OS, you can also hold down the ⌘ key and click on any part of the URL text to open it.
For the email:
In Template mode, select the field where the emails are located.
In the format menu, choose button setup.
In the dialog box, near the bottom in various, choose send mail. Note that it is preferable to create a button to insert new email addresses.
Best regards
Thank you very much!
Thanks to the trick, I can open web pages without any problem!
However, for emails, the company wants to use its usual messaging.
So I created a button to open URL, in the option Set: "mailto:" & Email section
which directly opens the default messaging app with the recipient's address automatically.
The problem is that on some records there are multiple emails and I wanted to create a button that allows sending a group email. After several attempts, I finally ended up putting:
open URL, option set: "mailto:" & Email section & ";" & Email section 2 & ";" & Email section 3
The formula works except that it inserts a quotation mark in the first email address just before the @!
I've tried plenty of formulas without success.....
Thanks again for your help.
Thanks to the trick, I can open web pages without any problem!
However, for emails, the company wants to use its usual messaging.
So I created a button to open URL, in the option Set: "mailto:" & Email section
which directly opens the default messaging app with the recipient's address automatically.
The problem is that on some records there are multiple emails and I wanted to create a button that allows sending a group email. After several attempts, I finally ended up putting:
open URL, option set: "mailto:" & Email section & ";" & Email section 2 & ";" & Email section 3
The formula works except that it inserts a quotation mark in the first email address just before the @!
I've tried plenty of formulas without success.....
Thanks again for your help.