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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V
VBScript 7-3
-view requests B-2
Visual C++ (Windows) 10-1
Visual Cafe 4.0 Expert Edition for
Windows 8-1, 8-15
W
W3C Document Object Model
7-16, 7-17
web browsers
for Java Class Library
examples 8-18
for XML Inventory example
7-17
for XML Simple Examples
7-12
receiving static files 6-2
Web Companion
See also publishing on the
Web, Web Security Database
built-in home page 6-5
configuration options 6-3
default home page, setting 6-6
described 6-2
enabling 6-3
error messages automatically
generated 9-13
error pages recognized 9-13
external functions 6-10
generated error codes C-1
generated instant web pages
6-6
generated log files 6-8
generating XML documents
7-1, 7-2
generating XML DTDs 7-3,
7-5
IP Guest Limit 6-3
languages for instant web
pages 6-7
monitoring web sites 6-8
remote administration 6-4,
6-18
restricting access to IP
addresses 6-4
sharing databases 6-5
Web- external functions 6-11
Web folder, described 6-3
Web publishing. See publishing
on the Web
Web Security Database
See also Web Companion
access privileges, overriding
6-17
assigning user names,
passwords, and permissions
6-18
described 6-16
enabling 6-17
field restriction options,
described 6-19
installing 6-17
protecting specific records in
databases 6-20
remotely administering from
the Web 6-21
user permission options,
described 6-19
using 6-1
web server. See Web Companion
web sites
Apple 2-8, 3-12
Apple Developer Support
10-8
Borland/Inprise (Corel) 8-11
FileMaker Developer support
pages 6-1
FileMaker, Inc. 1-9
hosting multiple 6-5
Javasoft 8-7
monitoring 6-8, 6-10
Sun Microsystems 8-8
testing without a network
connection 6-13
W3C organization 6-9
web-safe colors 5-7, 5-10
What’s This? Help (Windows)
3-9, 4-1
Windows systems, setting up as
single-machine networks 6-13
WinZip for Windows 4-5
World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) 6-9
X, Y, Z
XML
CGI requests 7-2, 7-8
character entities 5-3
described 7-1
document type definitions
(DTDs) 7-2, 7-3, 7-5
documents for layout themes
5-1
documents generated by the
Web Companion 6-1
-edit request example 7-10
editors 5-1
encoded using UTF-8 format
7-3, 7-8
examples comparing CSS,
XSL, and JavaScript 7-11
FMPDSORESULT grammars
7-3, 7-4
FMPXMLLAYOUT
grammars 7-7
FMPXMLRESULT
grammars 7-5
format parameters 7-2, 7-3
grammars (or schemas),
described 7-2
namespaces 7-3, 7-4, 7-6, 7-7
-new request example 7-9
parsers 7-2, 7-8
using CSS 7-10
using XSL 7-10
XML 1.0 specification 5-3,
7-2
XML Inventory example 7-17
XML-document processing
instruction 5-3
XML-stylesheet processing
instruction 7-2, 7-10
XSLT example
XPAL files for cross-platform use
4-2
Xpl- external functions 10-6
XSL stylesheets 7-10, 7-11
XSLT example 7-14