Developer’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface Introducing FileMaker Developer 5.5
- Chapter 1 Installing FileMaker Developer 5.5
- What you need to install FileMakerDeveloper
- System requirements for FileMaker Developer 5.5
- Networking requirements
- Web publishing requirements
- Requirements for advanced features (Windows)
- Requirements for advanced features (MacOS)
- Installing FileMaker Developer 5.5 in Windows
- Installing FileMaker Developer 5.5 in the MacOS
- New features in FileMaker Pro
- FileMaker Pro 5.5 and Mac OS X
- Contents of the FileMaker Developer 5.5 folder
- Contents of the Developer Extras folder on the FileMaker Developer 5.5 CD
- Read Me file
- Electronic documentation
- Abiding by the license agreement
- Registration and customer support
- About the TechInfo database
- Chapter 2 Creating a database solution
- Overview of preparing your solutionfiles
- Considerations for a runtime databasesolution
- Considerations for Kiosk mode
- Using scripts to control your solution
- Protecting your database solution files
- Providing user documentation
- Design tips for cross-platform solutions
- Creating a consistent appearance
- Simulating outline and shadow text styles
- Using common character sets
- Designing text layouts for cross-platform solutions
- Using a common color palette
- Using graphics in cross-platform solutions
- Using QuickTime movies in cross-platform solutions
- Showing the status bar in Windows
- Using separate scripts for printing
- Using the Status (CurrentPlatform) function
- Creating platform-specific scripts
- Your responsibilities as a developer
- Testing before and after creating yoursolution
- Converting and upgrading solution files
- Chapter 3 Creating custom layout themes
- Chapter 4 Using the FileMaker Developer Tool
- About the solution examples
- Using the FileMaker Developer Tool
- Binding your databases into a runtime database solution
- Creating Kiosk-mode solutions
- Renaming your databases
- Removing design access to your databases
- Customizing the About, Help, and Scriptsmenus
- Adding the FileMakerPro extension to database filenames
- Saving your settings in the Developer Tool
- Chapter 5 Distributing FileMakerPro runtime database solutions
- Chapter 6 Publishing your database on the Web
- Types of web publishing
- Using the FileMakerPro Web Companion
- Creating a custom home page
- Creating a custom home page for Instant Web Publishing
- Creating a custom web site using a database layout
- Web Companion support for Internet mediatypes
- Monitoring your site
- Exporting data to a static HTML page
- Testing your site without a networkconnection
- Opening password-protected databasesremotely
- Chapter 7 Using FileMakerPro XML to deliver your data
- About the XML examples
- General process for custom web publishing using XML
- Generating an XML document
- Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar
- Using the FileMakerPro Extended XMLgrammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests for an XML document
- Using style sheets with your XMLdocument
- Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript
- Looking at the XML Inventory example
- Chapter 8 Custom web publishing using CDML
- About the CDML examples
- General steps for custom web publishing using CDML
- About CDML format files
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests using CDML
- Using the CDML Tool and templates
- Modified CDML tags
- About the CDML Reference database
- Creating error messages
- Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag
- Planning your web site
- Chapter 9 Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data
- About the JDBC examples
- About JDBC
- Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- SQL supported by the FileMaker JDBCDriver
- FileMakerPro support for Unicodecharacters
- About the FileMaker JDBC Driver interfaces and extensions
- Example 1: Looking at the FileMakerPro Explorer application
- Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventoryapplication
- Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application
- Using the FileMaker Java classes
- Chapter 10 Understanding external function plug-ins
- About external functions
- About the plug-in example file
- Installing, enabling, and configuring the exampleplug-in
- Description of the FMExample plug-in’s externalfunctions
- Using the example plug-in
- Customizing the plug-in example
- Requirements for writing an external function plug-in
- FileMakerPro messages sent to theplugin
- Debugging your plug-in
- Avoiding potential MacOS resourceconflicts
- Providing documentation for your plug-in
- Registering your plug-ins
- Appendix A Feature comparison of the runtime application and FileMakerPro
- Appendix B Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMakerProXMLdata
- Generating a –find, –findall, or –findany request
- Generating a –view request
- Generating a –new request
- Generating an –edit request
- Generating a –delete request
- Generating a –dbnames request
- Generating a –layoutnames request
- Generating a –scriptnames request
- Generating a –dbopen request
- Generating a –dbclose request
- Generating a -dup request
- Generating an -img request
- Specifying parameters for the request
- –db (Database)
- –lay (Layout)
- –format (Format)
- –recid (Record ID)
- –modid (Modification ID)
- –lop (Logical operator)
- –op (Comparison operator)
- –max (Maximum records)
- –skip (Skip records)
- –sortfield (Sort field)
- –sortorder (Sort order)
- –script (Script)
- –script.prefind (Script before Find)
- –script.presort (Script before Sort)
- –styletype (Style type)
- –stylehref (Style href)
- –password (Database password)
- field name (Name of specific field)
- Appendix C FileMakerPro values for error codes
- Index
Custom web publishing using CDML 8-11
Using an intratag parameter
You can add a parameter to certain replacement tags that is based on
the contents of fields and other items.
Any first parameter that is allowed with the [FMP-If] tag on the left
side of an operator, such as CanDelete, ClientPassword or
ValueListItem, can be used as a third parameter on the right side of an
operator with these replacement tags, as long as they’re within curly
brackets { }. (See the [FMP-If] tag syntax in the CDML Reference for
a description of the first parameters for the [FMP-If] tag.)
Note Some restrictions apply to this new intratag parameter. See the
CDML Reference for a description of each replacement tag and how
the intratag parameter may be used.
Modified replacement tags that allow for the intratag parameter
include:
[FMP-If: {intratag}]
[FMP-Cookie: {intratag}]
[FMP-InlineAction: {intratag}]
[FMP-Log: {intratag}]
[FMP-SetCookie: {intratag}]
[FMP-ContentMimeType: {intratag}]
[FMP-CurrentToken: {intratag}]
[FMP-LinkRecID: {intratag}]
[FMP-Field: {intratag}]
[FMP-Option: {intratag}]
[FMP-Repeating: {intratag}]
[FMP-ValueList: {intratag}]
About the CDML Reference database
The CDML Reference database is divided into two parts:
1 CDML Tag Index — an index for all of the CDML tags with topics
that describe what each tag does and how it appears in syntax
1 Custom Web Publishing — general guidelines for custom web
publishing using CDML
[FMP-If:.and.]
[FMP-If:.or.]
[FMP-If:.xor.]
(new parameters)
Use these parameters (conditional operators) with
the [FMP-If] tag to specify multiple replacement
conditions.
If desired, use this modified [FMP-If] tag along
with the new [FMP-ElseIf] replacement tag.
[FMP-Field: FieldName,
Format] and [FMP-
RepeatingItem: FieldName,
Format]
(new encoding parameter)
Use the Format parameter to generate a higher
resolution HTML for field data. Numbers, dates,
times, and container size are formatted according
to the layout’s format in the database. If no size is
specified in the layout for container fields, then
the size is based on the size of the objects
(pictures or QuickTime movies) within the fields.
The Format parameter should not be used with
fields inside TEXT INPUT or TEXT AREA
elements in an HTML form.
The Format parameter supports Bold, Italic,
Underline, Strikethrough, Superscript, Subscript,
Uppercase, and Lowercase styles in most
browsers.
FileMaker Pro font sizes map to these HTML font
sizes:
8 points or less = -3
9 points = -2
10 points = -1
11 - 13 points = 0 (SIZE is not used)
14 - 17 points = +1
18 - 23 points = +2
24 points or greater = +3
Modified CDML tag Description