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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Web Viewer anomalies

Web Viewer anomalies

1) Whilst Text Formatting is unavailable in Web Viewer, there must be a way to solve the anomaly, where the text changes size randomly:
I placed a Web Clock on a Layout in a Web Viewer (Object Size: 2.505X0.65cm) but the Time (e.g. 11:55:29) is displayed sometimes so that the text fills the space of the Web Viewer whilst sometimes it shrinks to half the size, causing the right side and bottom part of the Web Viewer to be empty, resulting in a untidy display of the time.

The following is from the FileMaker Pro support page Web Viewer behavior in Layout Mode - untested... (url: http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6086/kw/change%20default%20font%20size):
"Format Changes: Web viewers do not respond to font attributes, yet the attribute commands remain enabled (this is also the behavior for other objects which do not have font attributes). The ignored commands are Font, Size, Style, Align Text, Line Spacing, Orientation, and Text Color."

1) I inserted a Web Viewer on a Layout and most of the time the bottom of the Web Page cannot be viewed; there's a ligh-blue rectangle blocking what should be seen there.  Additionally, the vertical Scrollbar on the right-hand-side is also hidden from view, so it's impossible to scroll up or down.
See Screengrab below:

I tried resolving this issue by following the advice gleaned from the two tips that are shown in the Notes section at: Working with web viewers on layouts (filemaker.com):
 - "You can’t place a web viewer in a portal. If you place a web viewer in a portal, the web viewer appears as an object on the layout that overlaps the portal. However, you can place a web viewer on a popover within a portal.".
 - "You must ensure that a custom web address:
begins with the correct scheme — for example, http://, https://, ftp://, or file://
is correctly encoded as a URL, by selecting Automatically encode URL"


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