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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Requests for adding records to a portal 7-9
Requests for editing multiple records in a portal 7-9
Using style sheets with your XML document 7-10
Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript 7-11
Cascading style sheets (CSS) example 7-13
Extensible Stylesheet Language–Transformations (XSLT)
example
7-14
JavaScript scripting language example 7-16
Looking at the XML Inventory example 7-17
Chapter 8
Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data
About the JDBC examples 8-1
About JDBC 8-1
Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver 8-2
About the FileMaker JDBC Driver 8-2
Using a JDBC URL to connect to your database 8-2
Specifying driver properties in the URL subname 8-3
SQL supported by the FileMaker JDBC Driver 8-4
Using DbOpen and DbClose pseudo procedures 8-5
Using the RecordID pseudo column 8-6
Using the ModID pseudo column 8-6
SQL statement examples 8-7
Using a character escape 8-7
FileMaker data type mapping to JDBC SQL and Java
data types
8-7
FileMaker Pro support for Unicode characters 8-7
About the FileMaker JDBC Driver interfaces and extensions 8-8
Example 1: Looking at the FileMaker Pro Explorer application 8-8
Setup requirements 8-8
Install the example and the FileMaker JDBC Driver 8-9
Open and share your databases via the Web 8-9
Run the FileMaker Pro Explorer application 8-9
View the source code of the example 8-10
Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventory application 8-11
Install the example and FileMaker JDBC Driver 8-11
Set up JBuilder to use the FileMaker JDBC Driver 8-11
Open and share the Inventory.fp5 database 8-11
Start a new JBuilder project 8-11
Create the data module 8-12
Design the data module 8-12
Test the data module 8-13
Generate the application 8-13
Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application 8-15
Install the example and the FileMaker JDBC Driver 8-15
Set up Visual Cafe to use the FileMaker JDBC Driver 8-15
Open and share the inventory_db database 8-15
Create a new Visual Cafe project 8-15
Using the FileMaker Java classes 8-17
About the FileMaker Java Class Library 8-18
Looking at the Java applet examples 8-18
Chapter 9
Custom web publishing using CDML
About the CDML examples 9-1
General steps for custom web publishing using CDML 9-2
About CDML format files 9-2
Generating FileMaker Pro CGI requests using CDML 9-3
Request names 9-4
Requests for adding records to a portal 9-4
Requests for editing multiple records in a portal 9-4
Using the CDML Tool and templates 9-5
Using the Templates tab 9-6
Using the Tags tab 9-6
Customizing a format file template 9-6
Categories of CDML tags 9-8
New and modified CDML tags 9-9
New CDML tags 9-9