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WebView.LoadURL

Loads the given URL into the webviewer.

Component Version macOS Windows Linux Server iOS SDK
WebView 2.1 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No ❌ No ✅ Yes
MBS( "WebView.LoadURL"; WebViewerRef; URL { ; cachePolicy; timeoutInterval } )   More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example Flags
WebViewerRef Either the Web Viewer Object Name or the Web Viewer ID as returned by "WebView.FindByName" function. "web"
URL The URL to load. "http://www.mbsplugins.eu/"
cachePolicy The cache policy. Can be 0 for default, 1 for ignoring local cache, 2 return cache data else load, 3 to return cache data and don't load. (Mac only) 1 Optional
timeoutInterval The timeout interval. (Mac only) 120.0 Optional

Result

Returns "OK" on success.

Description

Loads the given URL into the webviewer.
In FileMaker 10 (or newer) you can only use LoadURL with a webviewer where FileMaker loaded an URL before. This can be "about:blank".
On Mac and iOS you can specify optionally the timeout and cache policy.

Note for Windows: For Windows this function is only supported in FileMaker Pro when using Internet Explorer as engine behind the Web Viewer, but not when Microsoft Edge/Chrome engine is used. But the functions should still work if with Web Viewers created via plugin using WebView.Create and WebView.CreateWithControl as those still use Internet Explorer.

Examples

Load website from cache only with 2 minutes timeout:

MBS("WebView.LoadURL"; "web"; "http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/"; 3; 120)

Load data URL:

MBS( "Webview.LoadURL"; "web"; "data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8," & MBS( "Text.EncodeURLComponent"; $svgData); "utf8"))

See also

Example Databases

Blog Entries

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 15th August 2018


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