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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Specifying default values for themes
5-9
Finding values for patterns and colors
5-9
Adding comments to your document
5-10
Checking your theme document for errors
5-10
Chapter 6
Publishing your database on the Web
Moving forward using open web standards
6-1
Custom web publishing with XML
6-1
Custom web publishing with JDBC
6-1
Custom web publishing with CDML
6-2
Instant Web Publishing
6-2
Static web publishing with HTML
6-2
Using the FileMaker Pro Web Companion
6-2
Requirements for web access
6-2
Enabling the Web Companion
6-3
Setting Web Companion configuration options
6-3
Sharing the database via the Web
6-5
Displaying a custom home page
6-5
Specifying a custom home page as the default
6-6
Using a custom home page with Instant Web Publishing
6-6
Finding valid CGI commands for linking to instant
web pages
6-6
Languages for instant web pages
6-7
Filenames for instant web pages
6-8
Monitoring your site
6-8
Using the access.log file
6-9
Using the error.log file 6-9
Using the info.log file 6-9
Using the Web Companion external functions 6-10
Exporting data to a static HTML page 6-11
Testing your site without a network connection 6-13
Setting up on a Windows machine 6-13
Setting up on a Mac OS machine 6-14
Opening password-protected databases remotely 6-15
Opening and closing databases using XML 6-15
Opening and closing databases using CDML 6-15
Using the Web Security Database 6-16
How the Web Security Database works 6-16
Installing the Web Security Database 6-17
Enabling the Web Security Database 6-17
Assigning Web Security to your databases 6-18
Protecting specific records in a database 6-20
Changing Web Security settings remotely from
the Web
6-21
Chapter 7
Using FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data
About the XML examples 7-1
General process for custom web publishing using XML 7-2
Generating an XML document 7-2
About XML namespaces 7-3
About FileMaker Pro database error codes 7-3
Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar 7-3
Description of elements in the FMPDSORESULT
grammar
7-4
Example of XML data in the FMPDSORESULT
grammar
7-4
Using the FileMaker Pro Extended XML grammars 7-5
Description of elements in the FMPXMLRESULT
grammar
7-5
Example of XML data in the FMPXMLRESULT
grammar
7-6
Description of elements in the FMPXMLLAYOUT
grammar
7-7
Example of XML data in the FMPXMLLAYOUT
grammar
7-7
About UTF-8 encoded data 7-8
Generating FileMaker Pro CGI requests for an XML document 7-8
Request and parameter names 7-8