Linking to a database from an HTML page

Rather than having web users type the IP address or domain name to access your custom app, you can provide a link to your custom app.

To view Use this link
A particular database

http://<host>/fmi/webd/<database name>

A particular database and run a script

http://<host>/fmi/webd/<database name>[?script=<script name>[&param=<script parameter>][&<$variable name>=<value>]]

  • To link to a database or FileMaker WebDirect Launch Center over a connection with SSL encryption, use https:// before the host's fully qualified domain name. See FileMaker Server Help and FileMaker Cloud Help.

  • If you close your custom apps frequently, or if web users access a number of custom apps, consider linking to FileMaker WebDirect Launch Center, which dynamically creates links for all databases that are open and shared with FileMaker WebDirect.

  • If a database name, script name, script parameter, variable name, or variable value contains spaces or other special characters, replace the characters with the corresponding encoded values required for valid URLs. For example, replace a space character with %20.

  • To allow web users to run scripts from URLs, enable the fmurlscript extended privilege for the account's privilege set.

  • For FileMaker WebDirect content to display in <iframe> tags of separate webpages, those webpages must also be hosted by the same FileMaker Server web server. Webpages hosted by other web servers can't use the <iframe> tag to embed FileMaker WebDirect content.

  • If a file is hosted by FileMaker Cloud and users have already signed in with their Claris ID accounts, the file opens in FileMaker WebDirect. Otherwise, users are redirected to the Claris ID Sign In page.