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162 | Sharing and exchanging data
To open a shared database on a client machine using a URL, do one of the
following:
1 If you received an email message containing the URL of the host
machine, click the link indicating the location of the hosted database. If
your email application does not support active links, launch a web
browser on the intended client machine, copy the URL from the email
message into your browser’s address area, then press Enter (Windows)
or Return (Mac
OS).
1 If you received the URL of the shared database by some other means,
launch a web browser on the intended client machine, enter the URL of the
host machine into the browser’s address area using the following format,
then press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac
OS).
[<][URL:]FMP7://[[account:password@]netaddress]/databasename[>]
Optional parameters are indicated by square brackets ("[ ]"). Because URLs
can’t contain spaces, any spaces in database names are encoded as plus signs
("+").
Examples
FMP7://My+Addresses.fp7
FMP7://192.168.10.0/My+Addresses.fp7
FMP7://User1:Password1@12.345.678.900/Filename.fp7
Closing a hosted file
Before a shared file can be closed by a host, all clients must close the file.
FileMaker
Pro allows you to prompt networked clients to close the shared file
when you do one of the following: close the file, change the sharing conditions
for the file, exit FileMaker
Pro, or perform a task that requires all clients to
close the file. If a client does not respond to your request to close a shared file
within 30 seconds, FileMaker
Pro will attempt to close the shared file on the
client’s machine.
To close a hosted file:
1. On the computer hosting the file, choose File menu > Close.
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