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 I-11
FileMaker JDBC URL 9-2
for FileMaker Pro CGI requests 7-2
loaded by the FMBanner Java applet 9-18
using to access databases 6-1
Usenglsh.mpr spelling dictionary 5-3, 5-4
user driver property 9-4
User.upr spelling dictionary 5-3, 5-4
UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation 8 Bit)
format 7-7
V
values for error codes C-1
VBScript 7-3
-view requests B-2
Visual Cafe 4.0 Expert Edition for
Windows 9-1, 9-14
W
W3C Document Object Model 7-16
web browsers
for Java Class Library examples 9-18
for XML Inventory example 7-17
for XML Simple Examples 7-12
receiving static files 6-2
Web Companion
See also publishing on the Web
and runtime applications A-1
built-in home page 6-5
configuration options 6-3
default home page, setting 6-6
described 6-2
enabling 6-3
error messages automatically
generated 8-13
error pages recognized 8-13
external functions 6-14
generated error codes C-1
generated log files 6-13
generating XML documents 7-1, 7-2
generating XML DTDs 7-3, 7-5
IP Guest Limit 6-2
monitoring web sites 6-13
remote administration 6-4
restricting access to IP addresses 6-4
sharing databases 6-5
Web- external functions 6-15
Web folder, described 6-3
web portal example 6-7
web security 6-3, 6-4
Web Security.pdf 1-12
web sites
Apple 2-14, 4-8
Apple Developer Support 10-8
Borland/Inprise (Corel) 9-11
FileMaker Developer support pages 6-1
hosting multiple 6-6
Javasoft 9-7
monitoring 6-13, 6-14
Sun Microsystems 9-8
testing without a network connection 6-17
W3C organization 6-14
web styles 6-11
WebPortal object 6-7
web-safe colors 3-7, 3-10
What’s This? Help (Windows) 2-10, 5-1
WinZip for Windows 5-5
WML (Wireless Markup Language)
documents 6-13
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) 6-14
X, Y, Z
XML
CGI requests 7-2, 7-8
character entities 3-4
described 7-1
document type definitions (DTDs) 7-2,
7-3, 7-5
documents for layout themes 3-1
documents generated by the Web
Companion 6-1
-edit request example 7-9
editors 3-1
encoded using UTF-8 format 7-3, 7-7
examples comparing CSS, XSL, and
JavaScript 7-11
FMPDSORESULT grammars 7-3
FMPXMLLAYOUT grammars 7-7
FMPXMLRESULT grammars 7-5
format parameters 7-2, 7-3
grammars (or schemas), described 7-2
namespaces 7-3, 7-4, 7-6, 7-7
-new request example 7-9
parsers 7-2, 7-7
using CSS 7-10
using XSL 7-10
XML 1.0 specification 3-3, 7-2
XML Inventory example 7-16
XML-document processing
instruction 3-3
XML-stylesheet processing
instruction 7-2, 7-10
XSLT example
XPAL files for cross-platform use 5-2
Xpl- external functions 10-4
XSL stylesheets 7-10, 7-11
XSLT example 7-14