Filemaker Pro 14.0 with Google Chrome and Safari both did not seem to work with WebDirect. The code concerned is:
So this works fine in filemaker client and I get a http request logged on my http server and a proper response is received. Webdirect somehow does not like it and I get no response, nor do I get a hit on my http server. What is even strange is that, it does not even show the current record from the database (the first record, which was selected on line 3).
My best guess is I am doing something which is not supported by WebDirect but fail to understand what exactly.
Basically what I am trying to do, is make a http request and retrieve the response text into a FileMaker variable. I am doing this by saving the response in a column and then retrieving the value of the column in a variable.
PS: Can someone also point me out how I can copy text from the scripting window?
I'm afraid there's much that seems wrong with the script. Perhaps you mistyped it, not having the ability to copy and paste the script?
Show Custom Dialog can't directly set the value of a variable. You need to use the input fields to set the value of a field, usually a global field, and you can then use that directly or you can move that value to a variable.
You don't seem to be setting the http_wrapper_response::response field to any value. The way you have that written, it will actually clear any value it may have.
The third line doesn't set the current record, it sets the text selection to the contents of that field, which you're clearing in the line above.
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Is there a possibility to searching inside all JSON objects from all available responses in the network tab? Currently it works, but very randomly and isn't much reliable. Sometimes and especially in a smaller responses it's ok but when you have more assets almost always looking for, e.g. specific params value ends unsuccessfully. Do you know any smart solution of that issue? I've checked and first question associated with it has already few years and Google devs still haven't responded.
Example: I have object ID in response body, but cannot find it by search CTRL+F
I think one way is to save all the response in a file (manually or automatically, if possibile by using a browser extension).
After you have stored all the responses in a file you can parse the file and find things inside the file by using a script or just regex.
You can save the answers (as HAR file) manually (I use firefox) by right clicking on a network response inside the developer console panel.
I found that is the same for chrome.
Look here:
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/network/reference
I didn't search if there is a way to automatically store all the responses received by a browser. I'm not sure, but I think it isn't possible :/
Since I know Cypress, I offered to help a friend screen scrape data out of a legacy system for which he no longer has database access, but I seem to be at a dead-end.
The PHP code fills the form fields somehow, and I can cut'n paste from them into an editor but, when I try to automate that, the input field's innerText is always empty strings. I can use Dev Tools to search the DOM and find the text of the field labels, but searching for the input field text turns up nothing.
Is there really no way to get at that data?
How can Chrome be unable to find data that it is actually displaying?
Is this some kind of security barrier?
I'm trying to develop word add-in which allows to modify word content. One of the requirement is to select some text and mark it:
change its style (look) - and that is done
Associate that piece of text with some custom/hidden data, ex. an ID.
I want to somehow persist that data within the document, so that:
My add-in can read the document on the start and build a list of 'marked' elements
It should work on different machines - I can create a document on one machine, later open in on other machine, and add-in should be able to retrieve that data.
So far I tried to persist that data by first, getting data as HTML, and add attributes to tags, but that didn't work.
Also tried to add some hidden div, but it was only available during word app lifetime.
Recently, found this link: https://github.com/OfficeDev/Excel-Add-in-JavaScript-PersistCustomSettings , but still it allows to persist data in scope of "browser", so, I assume that on other machine it won't work.
What are my possibilities? Maybe I shouldn't store it within a document, but if not, where?
Developing it using office-js - it should work for both Word 2013 and Word 2016 (so I don't have an access to Word 2016 specific API).
Check out https://dev.office.com/reference/add-ins/shared/settings
The Office JS Settings object allows you to save custom data that persists with the document. It is pretty straight-forward to use. Getting settings is synchronous - saving settings is async. The biggest thing is that you have to remember to call Office.settings.saveAsync() after you have made your changes using Office.settings.set() in order to actually save the changes to the document.
Moreover to Nick's answer which is absolutely correct, you can use "Binding" mechanism.
Bindings are stored in document out-of-the-box, so that, you can access those later at any time.
An example, which fits my needs:
Select some text and click on button in add-in (to call some method)
Call addFromSelectionAsync() method (you can specify an id for it to reference it later)
Access it using getAllAsync() or getByIdAsync() method at any time you need it.
More about it: https://dev.office.com/docs/add-ins/develop/bind-to-regions-in-a-document-or-spreadsheet
I have a weird network request in my page, which refers to JavaScript files, which I removed from every html file earlier. Cache is cleared and there is no single reference to be found in the source html and the JavaScript files. For fixing that and also out of general curiosity I would like to know if there is a simple way to find out where a request was triggered, preferably using the chrome-devtools.
Update:
Thanks to jaredwilli I found the initator column under the network-tab. However this only shows Other. What I would like to know, is the (html or javascript) file where those Requests have been triggered.
On the Network panel, you can determine what the initiator of a request was by viewing the Initiator column. It gives you the file, line number and type of resource it was, either Script or something else.
I have a perl script which when run from the command line generates a text file of data with a specific format for use by another application. The script also prints informational warning messages on stderr. I'm writing a web front end for this. In an ideal world when the user clicks 'submit' on the associated form, a page would be displayed in the browser containing the informational messages, and simultaneously a pop-up would appear allowing the user to save the text file of data to disk. I would like this to work on browsers without javascript enabled, so I think exactly what I want is probably not possible.
Some sites I have seen deal with this kind of thing by displaying the page with the informational messages, and a link to the file to be downloaded. This would seem to mean having to store the files and sorting out some sort of security so that another user cannot download your file (not that this is a big deal for the application in question).
I'm wondering if there is a more elegant way of dealing with this? e.g Is it possible to use multipart messages to somehow achieve returning both pieces of information in one go? Is it possible to pop-up a second window with the informational messages without using javascript? Apologies if these seem like basic questions - my programming knowledge is in the domain of DNA sequence manipulation algorithms rather than web page generation..
If (and only if) the data is quick and easy to generate, do it once for error messages and a second time for download. The link or button of the error-message page would regenerate the results and prompt for download.
This is a bit of a hack since you need to consider what to do if the underlying data changes before the user hits the download link. Be careful to set the header correctly for file download vs normal webpage, eg,
if($submit) {
print header(-type=>'application/octet-stream',
-Content_disposition=>'attachment; filename=foobar.dat');
Gen_Results();
}
To be honest, I'd just use a little javascript anyway since it's a pretty safe assumption now a days. Otherwise, use a "noscript" tag for some alternative.