FileMaker Pro Web Viewer

I've had a few minutes to play around with FileMaker Pro 8.5, specifically with the included Movie Library database found in the "Home Collections" templates. I put the included fields in a tab of their own and added a new tab called IMDB. Created a new Web Viewer and used this custom address: "http://imdb.com/find?s=all&q=" & Movie Library::Movie Title which is the search string from the site combined with "& Movie Library::Movie Title" from the database via what is essentially a calculation field that is provided in the Web Viewer set-up dialog.

To discover the find string for a website go to the site and perform a simple one word search. The resulting page url, minus your search term, should do the trick. Some are not so easy but many are.

Really, they could not have made this easier. Of course I'm sure I'll think of little things I'd like to do with it that are not so easy. For example, is it possible to pull data out of the IMDB page and have it automatically entered? That seems less doable. Anything on a page that is consistent link and that can be calculated should be doable as a unique Web Viewer object such as the link to artwork that every IMDB entry has. But thats a link to another page. Images might also be linked in via calculations if one knows the formula used for calculating from the base url.

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