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
I-4 Developer’s Guide
Extensible Markup Language (XML). See
XML
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL). See
XSL stylesheets
Extensible Stylesheet Language–
Transformations (XSLT). See XSLT example
extensions, filename 4-8
External Function message 10-12
external function plug-ins
configuring 10-3, 10-9, 10-12
debugging 10-13
documenting 10-13
enabling 10-3
function name prefix 10-10
in runtime applications A-1
main entry point 10-9
messages sent by FileMaker Pro 10-10
plug-in ID 10-9
registering with FileMaker, Inc. 10-1,
10-13
required feature string syntax 10-8
resource ID conflicts (Mac OS) 10-13
Specify Calculations dialog box 10-9
Web Companion 6-14
external functions
for web site monitoring 6-14
in calculation fields and scripts 6-14, 10-1
F
feature string syntax for external function plug-
ins 10-8
fetchsize driver property 9-4
field name request parameter B-10
field names, spaces in 7-4, 9-3, 9-12
file naming requirements 4-10
file sharing with runtime applications 5-5
FileMaker Developer
contents, described 1-11
customer support 1-13
documentation 1-12
installing (Mac) 1-8
installing (Windows) 1-4
license agreement 1-12
modifying or repairing (Windows) 1-8
product, described ix
registering 1-13
requirements 1-2
uninstalling (Windows) 1-7
FileMaker Developer Tool
automating the process 4-15
described 4-1
generated DLLs (Windows) 5-2
generated runtime files 5-1
options, described 4-2
saving option settings 4-14
specifying files 4-3
using 4-2
FileMaker Java Class Library
using 9-17
FileMaker JDBC Driver
data type mapping 9-7
described 9-1
driver class and main entry point 9-2
escaping lower ASCII characters 9-7
examples 9-8, 9-11, 9-14
FileMaker extensions 9-8
implementing JDBC 1.2 API 9-2
including with FileMaker Pro Java
applications and applets 9-2
JDBC interfaces 9-8
opening and closing databases 9-5
registering with the JDBC driver
manager 9-2, 9-3
specifying the JDBC URL 9-2
SQL support 9-4
using 9-2
working with JDK 1.1 and Java 2 9-2
FileMaker Pro 4.0 Developer Edition,
upgrading from 2-17
FileMaker Pro 4.0 Java classes 9-17
FileMaker Pro 5.5
converting databases to 2-17
FileMaker Pro CGI requests
adding records to portals 7-9, 8-4
and script buttons 6-9
CDML request and parameter names 8-4
described 6-2
editing multiple records in portals 7-9, 8-5
example CGI requests for XML B-1
for accessing databases 6-2
for CDML 8-3
for XML 7-2, 7-8
using JavaScript 6-8, 7-15
XML request and parameter names 7-8
FileMaker Pro Explorer application
described 9-8
starting 9-9
FileMaker Pro Help
See also Help
described 2-8
FileMaker Pro plug-ins. See external function
plug-ins
FileMaker Pro themes. See layout themes
FileMaker Pro Unlimited x
FileMaker Server x, 5-5
FileMaker, Inc.
registering external function plug-
ins 10-1, 10-13
FileMakerExplorer.java file 9-10
filename extensions
adding or removing .fp5 4-14
desktop conflicts (Mac OS) 4-8
for runtime databases 4-8
registered by runtime applications 5-6