Exporting field contents to .html file

[Tech]

I have a problem that I reckon somone has come across before.

We have a database where I enter an HTML header and an HTML footer into two
global fields.
We then have a non-global field called text.
Another calculation field called HTML then concatenates the HTML header &
text & HTML footer together.

My question is..

Is there a way to print the data from the one field of that record into a
plain .html file on my computer? Ready for me to upload it to our webserver?
There's nothing of use in the export function.

I don't suppose the old 'print to file' would be any use would it?

Thanks

Ben Bradley (Tech)

[Michael Myett]

Tech wrote:

> I have a problem that I reckon somone has come across before.
>
> We have a database where I enter an HTML header and an HTML footer into two
> global fields.
> We then have a non-global field called text.
> Another calculation field called HTML then concatenates the HTML header &
> text & HTML footer together.
>
> My question is..
>
> Is there a way to print the data from the one field of that record into a
> plain .html file on my computer? Ready for me to upload it to our webserver?
> There's nothing of use in the export function.
>
> I don't suppose the old 'print to file' would be any use would it?

It sure would. If your on Windows install the generic print driver and
print to file will generate a text file without any additional
formatting. I would only be assuming there is a similar driver on Mac.

Michael Myett

[Kevin Hayes]

In article <Q843b.281$4L1.58115@wards.force9.net>, [email]brad@nowhere.net[/email]
says...

> Is there a way to print the data from the one field of that record into a
> plain .html file on my computer? Ready for me to upload it to our webserver?
> There's nothing of use in the export function.

Why couldn't you just export that one calc field?

What pkatform are you using?

[eyebrown@mindspring.com]

In article <Q843b.281$4L1.58115@wards.force9.net>, "Tech"
<brad@nowhere.net> wrote:

>Is there a way to print the data from the one field of that record into a
>plain .html file on my computer?

Export the one field from one record as a tab-delimited text file. There
won't be any tabs, with no multiple fields to delimite. Tab-delimited
keeps the resulting text file from being surrounded in quotes (I do this
every day to make DOS macros out of FM concatenation fields).

You'd have to rename the file from file.tab to file.htm, but if the file
always had the same name, you could work the filename & suffix into the
export scriopt.

Steve Brown

[Tim Booth]

Tech wrote:

>
> I have a problem that I reckon somone has come across before.
>
> We have a database where I enter an HTML header and an HTML footer into two
> global fields.
> We then have a non-global field called text.
> Another calculation field called HTML then concatenates the HTML header &
> text & HTML footer together.
>
> My question is..
>
> Is there a way to print the data from the one field of that record into a
> plain .html file on my computer? Ready for me to upload it to our webserver?
> There's nothing of use in the export function.

Actually, there is. Export as tab delimited, and make the filename
whatever you want - index.html will work for instance. As it is
only one field, there will be no tabs in the final file... used
to do this all the time with FM 3, before it became web native
and could write it's own web pages directly.

Webko

[Tech]

Aha that's a quality idea!

I should have let you know the version and platform of fmp i was using,
FMP4.1 on WinXP Pro.

Thanks for all the help.

Ben

"Tim Booth" <tbooth@usyd.edu.au> wrote in message
news:3F4D5452.59E43B32@usyd.edu.au...

>
>
> Tech wrote:

> >
> > I have a problem that I reckon somone has come across before.
> >
> > We have a database where I enter an HTML header and an HTML footer into

two

> > global fields.
> > We then have a non-global field called text.
> > Another calculation field called HTML then concatenates the HTML header

&

> > text & HTML footer together.
> >
> > My question is..
> >
> > Is there a way to print the data from the one field of that record into

a

> > plain .html file on my computer? Ready for me to upload it to our

webserver?

> > There's nothing of use in the export function.

>
> Actually, there is. Export as tab delimited, and make the filename
> whatever you want - index.html will work for instance. As it is
> only one field, there will be no tabs in the final file... used
> to do this all the time with FM 3, before it became web native
> and could write it's own web pages directly.
>
> Webko