Re: FileMaker and WebCat

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1999


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 22411
interpreted = N
texte = >Probably a very dumb question... > >One of my clients runs their back office on FileMaker from where I get the >data to drive their website - running out of Webstar and WebCatalog. > >I have a pretty clunky way of transferring this data and I wonder if anyone >has a better idea? > >I export out of FileMaker into a tab delimited text file, which I then open >in a text editor where I add a header containing the field names. I save >this as the data table which WebCatalog reads. > >FileMaker does not appear to have any export options which can be read >directly by WebCatalog without this process.Store the header information in a headerfile (yourdatabasename.hdr) and WebCat can read the data from FileMaker's exported file directly. ************************************************************* Christer Olsson Stora Nygatan 21 Phone +46 40 791 50 Ljusa Ideer AB S-211 37 Malmoe Fax +46 40 97 99 77 Sweden http://www.ljusaideer.se Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: FileMaker and WebCat (PCS Technical Support 1999)
  2. Re: FileMaker and WebCat (Stein Grebstad 1999)
  3. Re: FileMaker and WebCat - .hdr OK Merge not OK (Julian Clayton 1999)
  4. Re: FileMaker and WebCat - .hdr OK Merge not OK (PCS Technical Support 1999)
  5. Re: FileMaker and WebCat - .hdr OK Merge not OK (John Hill 1999)
  6. Re: FileMaker and WebCat - .hdr OK Merge not OK (Julian Clayton 1999)
  7. Re: FileMaker and WebCat (Larry Hewitt 1999)
  8. Re: FileMaker and WebCat (Christer Olsson 1999)
  9. Re: FileMaker and WebCat (Sandra L. Pitner 1999)
  10. RE: FileMaker and WebCat (Edouard Janssens 1999)
  11. RE: FileMaker and WebCat (Edouard Janssens 1999)
  12. FileMaker and WebCat (Julian Clayton 1999)
>Probably a very dumb question... > >One of my clients runs their back office on FileMaker from where I get the >data to drive their website - running out of Webstar and WebCatalog. > >I have a pretty clunky way of transferring this data and I wonder if anyone >has a better idea? > >I export out of FileMaker into a tab delimited text file, which I then open >in a text editor where I add a header containing the field names. I save >this as the data table which WebCatalog reads. > >FileMaker does not appear to have any export options which can be read >directly by WebCatalog without this process.Store the header information in a headerfile (yourdatabasename.hdr) and WebCat can read the data from FileMaker's exported file directly. ************************************************************* Christer Olsson Stora Nygatan 21 Phone +46 40 791 50 Ljusa Ideer AB S-211 37 Malmoe Fax +46 40 97 99 77 Sweden http://www.ljusaideer.se Christer Olsson

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