Developer’s Guide

9-4 Developer’s Guide
Or, web users might click on a submit button in an HTML form
containing the FMPro form action and the following hidden INPUT
elements:
<P><FORM ACTION=”FMPro” METHOD=”post”>
<P><INPUT TYPE=”hidden” NAME=”-db” VALUE=”Employees.fp5”>
<P><INPUT TYPE=”hidden” NAME=”-lay” VALUE=”FormView”>
<P><INPUT TYPE=”hidden” NAME=”-format” VALUE=”results.htm”>
The submit button in the form contains the –findall request name:
<P><INPUT TYPE=“submit” NAME=”-findall” VALUE=”Start Search”>
Request names
The name of a request for CDML data is determined by the name of
the CDML action tag in the request. You use CDML variable tags to
specify the parameters of a request.
For a detailed list of the CDML action and variable tags and example
syntax for using them in a FileMaker Pro CGI request, see the Tags
Index in the CDML Reference database (described in “Using the
Tags tab” on page 9-6).
Requests for adding records to a portal
With the enhanced Web Companion in FileMaker Pro 5, you can
now use CDML to add records to a portal of related database files.
(For information on other CDML enhancements, see “New and
modified CDML tags” on page 9-9.)
When you make an –edit request or a –new request that includes data
for a portal, you must specify the layout and the relationship name
for the related database.
Note You can only add one record at a time to a portal, and therefore
must make separate –new requests to add more rows to the portal.
The following is an example of a –new request for adding a record to
a portal, where “Address::” is the name of the database relationship,
and “City.0” is the related field name in the portal:
FMPro?–db=Employees.fp5&–lay=LayoutOne&FirstName=Sam&
LastName= Smith&Address::City.0=Seattle&–format=reply.htm&–new
Requests for editing multiple records in a portal
You only need to make one –edit request to edit multiple records in
a portal. You specify each row (or record) in the portal by adding a
period and a consecutive number (starting with number 1) to the end
of the related field name.
The following is an example of an –edit request for editing records
in a portal, where “Address::” is the name of the relationship,
“City.1” is the first row in the portal, and “City.2” is the second row
in the portal:
FMPro?–db=Employees.fp5&–lay=LayoutOne&recid=11&
FirstName=Sam&LastName=Smith&Address::City.1=Seattle
&Address::City.2=New York&–format=reply.htm&–edit
Use this request
name (CDML
action tag) To generate this request
–delete Delete record
–duplicate Duplicate record
–edit Edit record
–find Find a record
–findall Find all records
–findany find a random record
–new New record
–opendb Open database
–dbclose Close database
–view Display format file
Note The -script variable tag (request parameter) is not
designed to work with -view requests.