Enjoying these videos. I played with the add-ons when FM 19.1 first came out, but your videos are giving me a better idea of how to use them and where they might be useful. I love the context you are providing. Keep up the good work. Short, sweet and informative.
This text editor add-on for FileMaker 19 is just absolutely incredible. Tremendous opportunities are now available in FileMaker19, and thanks to Productive Computing, these cool features are approachable by the common developer, like me!
@Kevin Barbee, thank you for your question. Since we can’t print a web viewer directly, due to it turning into a “blank box” as per FileMaker’s design, you would need to do something similar to “GetAsCSS” in order to “reverse engineer” the text field that contains the formatted Rich Text HTML code. Some of it has been explored in the following Claris Community post: community.claris.com/en/s/question/0D50H00007PIz8B/the-opposite-of-getascss We hope this helps. Thanks again for watching -- and writing!
Hi Jerry, It seems like he would be referring to making the text field containing the info he specifies in the Add-on and display it as normal text in a portal. Is that correct? Assuming that is the case, rendering out an HTML-formatted document contained within a text field, which is what the Rich Text Editor add-on inserts into the “Text” field that you specify in its configurator, would require a web viewer. Unfortunately, you cannot have more than one web viewer in a portal row, due to limitations of the FileMaker engine. You can get around this by using a “Preview” dedicated layout, designed perhaps as a floating card window or a separate document window, that contains a Web Viewer configured to display “data:text/hmtl”, along with a copy of the data from the text field. For example, if you take the data and copy it into a global variable called $$TextToPreview, you can display the data in the Web Viewer using the calculation: “data:text/html,” & $$TextToPreview in order to show it as a clean, formatted HTML document. Hope this helps!
Why is there a difference between what is displayed in the editor vs pasting the html code into a viewer or putting it in an email? Rather than putting the text the line below its putting a paragraph?
@Steven Hampson - thanks for watching and for your question. The text displayed in the editor as the user enters formatted text is the realized HTML document, displayed as through a web viewer. The source document contains the HTML-formatted contents of the text field, but itself is not a fully formatted HTML document. It’s effectively the “body” of the HTML document, lacking most of the supporting HTML flags to make it a true HTML document. Thanks!
@@BarryMaskell I'm sharing a Claris community thread that might be a useful starting point for people who come upon similar issues. community.claris.com/en/s/question/0D53w000058w0UpCAI/rich-text-editor-addon-bug
In the configurator i specify a txt field i have created in a table, when i click save the configuration windows closes but i get a message that i have not configured the configurator yet....Have tried to delete the instance and recreated it a number of times. Also i had to install and uninstall it a few times before i got this far.
I have not been able to get the hyperlinks to work.. it doesn't matter what url I enter, it always changes it to "about:blank".. very annoying.. I wish that feature would work...
@@ProductiveComputing That did the trick! Thank you.. Turns out and address like "www.bing.com" will not work unless you use the full or in front of it. copying it from the web browser's address line works :)
get to the point, extremely difficulty to find the actual point you cover how to set it up, I dont need a lecture on why I want it, I already know why I want it and do does everyone else. 4 minutes to get the install point which needs to be in first few minutes.
@RecordkeeperSys Thanks for the feedback, and your point is noted! Part of the reason we create these videos/lessons is a sincere desire to attract more and more "new" people to the platform (which needs as much new blood as possible these days). Our philosophy is that the "why" is just as important as the "what" or the "how." It's been our experience that the vast majority of people watching these videos are beginners or just trying to figure out if they want to use FileMaker or not. With that said, we agree 100% that advanced developers already know what it is and why they need it. We're not sure how we solve the issue except to say that for you and all the other advanced developers out there watching, the video actually begins at: 4:15
Extremely helpful to someone who has just discovered the RTE and just discovered the RTFM, or WTFV in this case, is not such a bad idea. GREAT!
Glad you found this helpful! Thanks for watching!
Enjoying these videos. I played with the add-ons when FM 19.1 first came out, but your videos are giving me a better idea of how to use them and where they might be useful. I love the context you are providing. Keep up the good work. Short, sweet and informative.
Glad we could provide more insight. Thanks for the feedback.
This text editor add-on for FileMaker 19 is just absolutely incredible. Tremendous opportunities are now available in FileMaker19, and thanks to Productive Computing, these cool features are approachable by the common developer, like me!
Agreed, it really does increase the possibilities. Glad to hear you found this video useful. Thanks for sharing.
How do you print and display the formatted text within Filemaker? That would be helpful to know...
@Kevin Barbee, thank you for your question. Since we can’t print a web viewer directly, due to it turning into a “blank box” as per FileMaker’s design, you would need to do something similar to “GetAsCSS” in order to “reverse engineer” the text field that contains the formatted Rich Text HTML code. Some of it has been explored in the following Claris Community post:
community.claris.com/en/s/question/0D50H00007PIz8B/the-opposite-of-getascss
We hope this helps. Thanks again for watching -- and writing!
i have this on a master detail notes page. how do i prevent the text from showing the html formatting codes in the portal view of the text field.??
Hi Jerry,
It seems like he would be referring to making the text field containing the info he specifies in the Add-on and display it as normal text in a portal. Is that correct?
Assuming that is the case, rendering out an HTML-formatted document contained within a text field, which is what the Rich Text Editor add-on inserts into the “Text” field that you specify in its configurator, would require a web viewer. Unfortunately, you cannot have more than one web viewer in a portal row, due to limitations of the FileMaker engine.
You can get around this by using a “Preview” dedicated layout, designed perhaps as a floating card window or a separate document window, that contains a Web Viewer configured to display “data:text/hmtl”, along with a copy of the data from the text field.
For example, if you take the data and copy it into a global variable called $$TextToPreview, you can display the data in the Web Viewer using the calculation:
“data:text/html,” & $$TextToPreview
in order to show it as a clean, formatted HTML document.
Hope this helps!
Why is there a difference between what is displayed in the editor vs pasting the html code into a viewer or putting it in an email? Rather than putting the text the line below its putting a paragraph?
@Steven Hampson - thanks for watching and for your question. The text displayed in the editor as the user enters formatted text is the realized HTML document, displayed as through a web viewer. The source document contains the HTML-formatted contents of the text field, but itself is not a fully formatted HTML document. It’s effectively the “body” of the HTML document, lacking most of the supporting HTML flags to make it a true HTML document.
Thanks!
The text editor when I use it and select an option the editor options disappear unless I go out if the layout and come back - not sure what’s going on
I experienced this once as well. I resolved it by deleting the instance and dragging on a new one.
I hope that helps, thanks for watching.
@@ProductiveComputing thanks will give that a try
@@BarryMaskell I'm sharing a Claris community thread that might be a useful starting point for people who come upon similar issues.
community.claris.com/en/s/question/0D53w000058w0UpCAI/rich-text-editor-addon-bug
Awesome as always... Thanks for sharing
We appreciate your enthusiasm Nnamdi. Thanks for watching.
In the configurator i specify a txt field i have created in a table, when i click save the configuration windows closes but i get a message that i have not configured the configurator yet....Have tried to delete the instance and recreated it a number of times.
Also i had to install and uninstall it a few times before i got this far.
@Thomas Andersson - was that using Windows or Mac?
I have not been able to get the hyperlinks to work.. it doesn't matter what url I enter, it always changes it to "about:blank".. very annoying.. I wish that feature would work...
the html line always changes to "", Any idea how to fix this?
The link needs to begin with or
Copying and pasting the URL directly from a web browser is a way to ensure it is fully qualified.
@@ProductiveComputing That did the trick! Thank you.. Turns out and address like "www.bing.com" will not work unless you use the full or in front of it. copying it from the web browser's address line works :)
get to the point, extremely difficulty to find the actual point you cover how to set it up, I dont need a lecture on why I want it, I already know why I want it and do does everyone else. 4 minutes to get the install point which needs to be in first few minutes.
@RecordkeeperSys Thanks for the feedback, and your point is noted! Part of the reason we create these videos/lessons is a sincere desire to attract more and more "new" people to the platform (which needs as much new blood as possible these days). Our philosophy is that the "why" is just as important as the "what" or the "how." It's been our experience that the vast majority of people watching these videos are beginners or just trying to figure out if they want to use FileMaker or not. With that said, we agree 100% that advanced developers already know what it is and why they need it. We're not sure how we solve the issue except to say that for you and all the other advanced developers out there watching, the video actually begins at: 4:15