Developer’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Introducing FileMaker Developer 5
- Chapter 2 Customizing your database solution
- About the custom solution examples
- Using the FileMaker Developer Tool
- Binding your databases into a runtime database solution
- Displaying databases in Kiosk mode
- 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 3 Preparing files for a custom solution
- About the Relational Example
- General steps for preparing your solutionfiles
- Issues to consider before creating a runtime database solution
- Opening files in Kiosk mode
- Design tips for navigating in Kiosk mode
- Creating startup scripts
- Using button image samples
- Documenting your database solution
- 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
- Protecting your runtime database solutionfiles
- Testing before and after creating yoursolution
- Converting and upgrading solution files
- Chapter 4 Distributing FileMakerPro runtime database solutions
- Chapter 5 Creating custom layout themes
- Chapter 6 Publishing your database on the Web
- Moving forward using open web standards
- Using the FileMakerPro Web Companion
- Displaying a custom home page
- Using a custom home page with Instant Web Publishing
- Monitoring your site
- Exporting data to a static HTML page
- Testing your site without a networkconnection
- Opening password-protected databasesremotely
- Using the Web Security Database
- 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 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 9 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
- New and 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 10 Writing external function plug-ins
- About the plug-in examples and templates
- Installing, enabling, and configuring FileMakerPro plug-ins
- Using external functions in a calculation
- 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
- Naming and registering your plug-ins
- Appendix A Feature comparison of the runtime application and FileMakerPro
- Appendix B Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMaker XML data
- 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
- 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 FileMaker Pro values for error codes
- Index
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External FileMaker APIs folder
The External FileMaker APIs folder contains five folders:
1 XML folder
1 FileMaker JDBC Driver folder
1 CDML folder
1 External Function Plug-in folder
1 Java Class Library folder
Contents of the
XML folder Description
XML ReadMe Text file
Documentation Folder containing the XML Document Type Definitions
(DTDs) for the FileMaker XML grammars:
fmpdsoresult_dtd.htm
fmpxmllayout_dtd.htm
fmpxmlresult_dtd.htm
Inventory Example Example of the inventory.fp5 database published on the
Web using XML, the W3C DOM, and JavaScript
Files include : inventory.fp5, default.htm,
detail_view.htm, add_record.htm, find.htm, Filemaker.gif
and FMP.js (JavaScript library for the example)
For information on this example, see chapter 7, “Using
FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data.”
Simple Examples Three examples of the People.fp5 database published on
the Web using XML with CSS, XSL, and JavaScript
Files include: default.htm, Filemaker.gif, FMP.js,
people.fp5, people_form.css, people_form.xsl, and
people_form.htm.
For information about these examples, see chapter 7,
“Using FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data.”
Contents of the
FileMaker JDBC
Driver folder Description
JDBC ReadMe Text file
fmpjdbc12.jar FileMaker JDBC Driver packaged as a Java archive file
Documentation HTML files that describe the FileMaker JDBC Driver API
Examples Three folders of example files for creating
FileMaker Pro database-aware Java applications using
the FileMaker JDBC Driver: Visual Cafe 4.0 Expert
Edition, JBuilder 3.0 Professional, and a developer- tool-
independent example called FileMaker Explorer
For information about these examples, see chapter 8,
“Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data.”
Contents of the
CDML folder Description
CDML Examples Folder containing three folders of example files:
guest_book folder, employee_database folder, and
shopping _cart folder
For information about these examples, see chapter 9,
“Custom web publishing using CDML.”
Web Tools Folder containing the CDML Reference.fp5 and
CDML Tool.fp5 databases and the CDML Templates
folder
CDML Tool.fp5 Database file for adding CDML tags to your databases
CDML Reference.fp5 Database file containing descriptions of the CDML tags
CDML Templates Folder containing nine CDML format files for different
types of interaction with a database