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2. In the Script Definition dialog box, click Clear All, and select Toggle

Status Area. Choose Hide from the Specify pop-up menu to add the

parameter to the script step. Then click OK.

3. Click Done to close the Define Scripts dialog box.

4. Choose Edit > Preferences > Document.

5. In the Document Preferences dialog box, select the checkbox for

Perform script when opening the database, and choose the script you

named in step 1 from the pop-up menu.

6. Click OK.

For more information, see “Defining scripts” in chapter 10 and

“Setting document preferences” in appendix A of the FileMaker Pro

User’s Guide or see FileMaker Pro Help.

Bypassing the Instant Web Publishing home page

You can bypass the built-in Instant Web Publishing home page so

that the database layout you’ve created appears as the default home

page in the web browser. You do this by writing a redirect statement

in an HTML file that includes a FileMaker CGI request and then

designating the file as the default home page in FileMaker Pro.

For the FileMaker CGI request, you’ll need to know the URL of the

view (instant web page) that you want the database layout to appear

in. You can get this from the browser window by displaying the

database in the Instant Web Publishing home page and moving the

cursor over the link or clicking the link to go to the view.

To bypass the Instant Web Publishing home page:

1. Create an HTML file that contains a redirect statement to your

database layout.

2. Save the HTML file with the .htm or .html extension and place it

in the Web folder.

3. In the Web Companion Configuration dialog box, specify the

HTML file to be the default home page. (See “Setting Web

Companion configuration options” on page 6-3.)

For example, the following redirect statement contains a FileMaker

CGI request for layout ID number 3 in the “MyCustomUI.fp5”

database to open in the Form View instant web page

(formvwcss.htm).

<HTML>

<BODY>

window.location ="/FMRes/FMPJS?-db=MyCustomUI.fp5&

-layID=3&-token=25&-max=1&-format=formvwcss.htm&

-mode=browse&-ﬁndall"

</SCRIPT>

</BODY>

Note In the Internet Explorer 4.5 for Mac OS browser window, you

must allocate at least 6 MB of memory to the web browser in order

to display the database layout.

Here’s another example of a redirect statement that displays the

database layout in the browser window.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “–//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”

“http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html1401-19991224/loose.dtd”>

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<META HTTP-EQUIV=”Refresh” Content=”0; URL=/FMRes/FMPJS?

–db=MyCustomUI.fp5&–layID=3&-token=25&-max=1&

-format=formvwcss.htm&-mode=browse&-ﬁndall”>

</HEAD>

<BODY>

</BODY>

</HTML>

Note Layout ID numbers are determined by the original creation

order of all the layouts created for the database.