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.
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.