Developer’s Guide

Custom web publishing using CDML 9-5
The following is an example of another–edit request for editing
records in a portal, in an HTML form:
<FORM ACTION="fmpro" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="-db"
VALUE="Employees.fp5">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="-lay" VALUE="LayoutOne">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="-format" VALUE="reply.htm">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="-recid" VALUE="11">
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="FirstName" VALUE="Sam">
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="LastName" VALUE="Smith">
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Address::City.1"
VALUE="Seattle">
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Address::City.2" VALUE="New
York">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="-edit" VALUE="Edit Record">
</FORM>
To display records in a portal on your web page, you use a [FMP-
Portal] replacement tag in the format file. For information, see the
CDML Reference database (described in “About the CDML
Reference database” on page 9-12). For an example of displaying
portals in a web page, see the Shopping Cart example (described in
“Shopping Cart example” on page 9-17.)
Using the CDML Tool and templates
The CDML Tool is a special FileMaker Pro database that you can
use with any open database and your HTML authoring program to
copy and paste tags into your format files. It also includes HTML
templates for the main types of format files and comments for how
to use them.
Your databases must be open and shared via the Web Companion.
For information, see “Enabling the Web Companion” on page 6-3
and “Sharing the database via the Web” on page 6-5.
When you specify the name of an open database in the CDML Tool,
the database’s layout, field, and value list names will automatically
appear in pop-up menus for you to choose from. Other database-
specific information will appear as appropriate within the CDML
tags.
To use the CDML Tool:
1. In FileMaker Pro, open the CDML_Tool.fp5 database located in
the CDML folder.
FileMaker Developer 5 > External FileMaker APIs > CDML > Web Tools >
CDML Tool.fp5
2. Open the database that you’re planning to publish on the Web.
3. In a text editor or HTML authoring program, create a blank page.
4. Arrange the windows so you can easily go between the blank page
and the CDML Tool.
5. In the CDML Tool, select either the Templates tab or the Tags tab
and click the Refresh button. Then choose your database from the
Database pop-up menu, and the layout that you want to use from the
Layouts pop-up menu.
The layout you choose determines which fields will be accessed.
Otherwise, it does not affect the layout of the web page.
Click to update list options
for the selected database
The Templates tab in the CDML Tool