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
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Chapter 7
Using FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data
About the XML examples 7-1
General process for custom web publishing using XML 7-2
Generating an XML document 7-2
About XML namespaces 7-3
About FileMaker Pro database error codes 7-3
Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar 7-3
Description of elements in the FMPDSORESULT
grammar
7-3
Example of XML data in the FMPDSORESULT
grammar
7-4
Using the FileMaker Pro Extended XML grammars 7-4
Description of elements in the FMPXMLRESULT
grammar
7-5
Example of XML data in the FMPXMLRESULT
grammar
7-6
Description of elements in the FMPXMLLAYOUT
grammar
7-7
Example of XML data in the FMPXMLLAYOUT
grammar
7-7
About UTF-8 encoded data 7-7
Generating FileMaker Pro CGI requests for an XML document 7-8
Request and parameter names 7-8
Requests for adding records to a portal 7-9
Requests for editing multiple records in a portal 7-9
Using style sheets with your XML document 7-10
Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript 7-11
Cascading style sheets (CSS) example 7-12
Extensible Stylesheet Language–Transformations
(XSLT) example
7-14
JavaScript scripting language example 7-15
Looking at the XML Inventory example 7-16
Chapter 8
Custom web publishing using CDML
About the CDML examples 8-1
General steps for custom web publishing using CDML 8-2
About CDML format files 8-2
Generating FileMaker Pro CGI requests using CDML 8-3
Request names 8-4
Requests for adding records to a portal 8-4
Requests for editing multiple records in a portal 8-4
Using the CDML Tool and templates 8-5
Using the Templates tab 8-6
Using the Tags tab 8-6
Customizing a format file template 8-7
Categories of CDML tags 8-8
Modified CDML tags 8-9
CDML tags new to FileMaker Pro 5 8-9
Modified CDML tags 8-10
Using an intratag parameter 8-11
About the CDML Reference database 8-11
Creating error messages 8-13
Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag 8-14
Planning your web site 8-14
Looking at the three CDML examples 8-15
Employee Database example 8-15
Guest Book example 8-16
Shopping Cart example 8-17
Chapter 9
Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data
About the JDBC examples 9-1
About JDBC 9-1
Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver 9-2
About the FileMaker JDBC Driver 9-2
Using a JDBC URL to connect to your database 9-2