The Challenge: Getting data out of the web viewer In this article, we will show why being able to communicate with a web viewer is a big deal. By removing that constraint, this opens up a lot of possibilities for developers to extend and improve the solutions we build. Previously this capability was only available in FileMaker Go or if you happened to be running FileMaker Pro with a file hosted on FileMaker Server. You set the web viewer from FileMaker, and now you get data back from what is going on inside the web viewer. Working with the web viewer is now a two-way street. The FileMaker-Web Viewer communication is a big deal

Among the list of improvements to FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced is the extended functionality of the FMP URL protocol to include support for calling a script to run in FileMaker from within a web viewer. has released an update for FileMaker Pro 13 (see the release notes here). Have you heard of Carafe? Our free, open-source tool makes it easy to implement JavaScript in your FileMaker solution.

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