Panorama X procedure to open web page in browser

Panorama X
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Panorama X procedure to open a selected web page address in a browser

I have a dozen-field database of about 1,700 contacts. I would like to be able to Google-search the internet to see surface (first page) news and information about the contacts.

I have created a field with the web address that will open the required page in Safari, but I do not know how to trigger that action from within Panorama X.

Is it possible? How?

Additional:

— I see the forum exchanges concerning extracting data from web pages using java, but I just want to open the web page for a quick looksee.

— I have tinkered with url() but to no avail. Likely it is the wrong approach or I just don’t know where to put it.

— If it is possible at all, I would like to access the capability from the data spreadsheet page (presumably with an action), but if not then likely it will require a button in a form.

iMac, Mojave

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You do not need a procedure that would open Safari. You only need a Pan X form with a Web Browser object (linked to your URL field).

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If you really still want to open the url in Safari…

I have a database with a field I named theURLs containing the url data in the format “http://www.apple.com”. I made a new procedure titled OpenURL with this simple code:

openurl  theURLs

Now when I select this item from the Action menu it will open the url found in the theURLs field in my default browser. If I had the urls in an abbreviated format like only “apple.com” I would have to change the code to:

openurl "http://www."+theURLs

The openurl statement requires the absolute URL of the web page so that would have to be appended to the short format.

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Success! Thank you KJM and gary.

Both are excellent solutions.

I went with the openurl search procedure so that I could stay with actions in the Data Sheet.

Thank you both.