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
Index
Numerics
3-character filename extensions
for runtime databases (Mac OS) 4-8
for runtime databases (Windows) 4-8
registered by the runtime application 5-6
A
About <your database> layout
adding a custom script 4-2, 4-4, 4-11
creating 2-9
displaying 2-9
example 2-8
license requirements 2-8
password warning 2-16
prevented modification warning 2-16
using 2-8
About FileMaker Pro Runtime, default menu
command 4-12
Access Log File option 6-4, 6-14
access privileges
record-level access 6-4
settings for Kiosk mode 2-7
Access Privileges command
denying access to 2-8
unavailable in FileMaker Pro 4-2, 4-11
unavailable in runtime applications 4-2,
A-1
amp (&) character entity 3-4
API (application programming interface)
for FileMaker Pro 4.0 Java Class
Library 9-17
for the FileMaker JDBC Driver 9-8
Java, for executing SQL statements 9-1
apos (‘) character entity 3-4
Apple events in runtime applications A-1
AppleScript 1-3
error codes C-1
applets, Java
FileMaker Pro 9-18
Microsoft XML Data Source Object 7-3
Application Preferences in runtime
applications A-1
ASCII characters
escaping in SQL identifiers 9-7
in cross-platform databases 2-12
in plug-in IDs 10-8
in theme names 3-8
in XML documents 7-7
Asset Management.fp5 database 9-11, 9-14
attribute values for layout themes 3-7
automating the Developer Tool 4-14
auxiliary files
opening 2-2
updating 5-7
B
Balloon Help (Mac OS) 2-8
basic Java classes 9-1, 9-8
Binder utility. See FileMaker Developer Tool
binding
databases to runtime applications 4-2, 4-6,
5-1
files for cross-platform runtime
solutions 4-9
binding key for runtime database
solutions 4-7
BMP graphic import filter 5-2
body layout parts 3-5
Break encoding parameter 8-14
Browse mode in runtime applications A-1
built-in home page, displaying on the
Web 6-5
buttons
creating 2-6
for closing Help windows 2-9
showing attached scripts 2-6
C
C/C++ ix, 10-1
calculations, using external functions 6-14
CALL stored procedure SQL statements 9-4
cascading style sheets (CSS) 7-10, 7-11, 7-12
CDML
action tags 8-4, 8-8, 8-9
CGI requests 8-3
described 6-2, 8-1
encoding parameters 8-14
error pages 8-13
examples 8-1, 8-15, 8-16, 8-17
FMP-If replacement tag 8-10
FMP-Include tag 8-17
format files 8-1, 8-2
modified tags 8-10
new action tags 8-9
new replacement tags 8-10
new variable tags 8-10
replacement tags 8-8, 8-10
templates 8-7
-token tags 8-10, 8-17
variable tags 8-4, 8-8, 8-10
CDML Reference database
described 8-1, 8-11