Developer’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Welcome to FileMaker Developer
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMaker Developer in Windows
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMaker Developer in the Mac OS
- Chapter 4 Creating a database solution
- Overview of preparing your solutionfiles
- Considerations for a runtime databasesolution
- Considerations for Kiosk mode
- Using scripts to control your solution
- Protecting your database solution files
- Providing user documentation
- 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
- Your responsibilities as a developer
- Testing before and after creating your solution
- Converting and upgrading solution files
- Chapter 5 Creating custom layout themes
- Chapter 6 Using the FileMaker Developer Tool
- About the solution examples
- Using the FileMaker Developer Tool
- Binding your databases into a runtime database solution
- Creating Kiosk-mode solutions
- Renaming your databases
- Removing design access to your databases
- Customizing the About, Help, and Scripts menus
- Adding the FileMaker Pro extension to database filenames
- Saving your settings in the Developer Tool
- Chapter 7 Distributing FileMaker Pro runtime database solutions
- Chapter 8 Publishing your database on the Web
- Types of web publishing
- Using the FileMaker Pro Web Companion
- Creating a custom home page
- Creating a custom home page for Instant Web Publishing
- Creating a custom web site using a database layout
- Web Companion support for Internet mediatypes
- Monitoring your site
- Exporting data to a static HTML page
- Testing your site without a network connection
- Opening password-protected databases remotely
- Chapter 9 Custom web publishing using CDML
- About the CDML examples
- General steps for custom web publishing using CDML
- About CDML format files
- Generating FileMaker Pro CGI requests using CDML
- Using the CDML Tool and templates
- About the CDML Reference database
- Creating error messages
- Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag
- Planning your web site
- Chapter 10 Using FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data on the Web
- About the XML examples
- General process for custom web publishing using XML
- Generating an XML document
- Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar
- Using the FileMaker Pro Extended XML grammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Generating FileMaker Pro CGI requests for an XML document
- Using style sheets with your XML document
- Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript
- Looking at the XML Inventory example
- Chapter 11 Using JDBC to deliver your data
- About the JDBC examples
- About JDBC
- Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- SQL supported by the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- FileMaker Pro support for Unicode characters
- About the FileMaker JDBC Driver interfaces and extensions
- Example 1: Looking at the FileMaker Pro Explorer application
- Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventory application
- Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application
- Chapter 12 Understanding external function plug-ins
- About external functions
- About the plug-in example file
- Installing, enabling, and configuring the example plug-in
- Description of the FMExample plug-in’s external functions
- Using the example plug-in
- Customizing the plug-in example
- Requirements for writing an external function plug-in
- FileMaker Pro messages sent to the plug-in
- Debugging your plug-in
- Avoiding potential Mac OS resourceconflicts
- Providing documentation for your plug-in
- Registering your plug-ins
- Appendix A Feature comparison of the runtime application and FileMaker Pro
- Appendix B Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMaker Pro 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
- Generating a -dup request
- Generating an -img 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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Or choose Help menu > FileMaker on the Web. At the web site, you
will find the FileMaker Service Directory, which details the service
options available to North American customers, as well as links to
FileMaker international sites, answers to frequently asked questions,
and access to the TechInfo knowledgebase used by Technical
Support. If you do not have access to the Web, please refer to the
FileMaker Service Directory included in the software box. North
America customers can also call 1-800-965-9090 to learn about the
service options available.
About the installation code
The installation code is a seventeen-digit number located on a multi-
part sticker on a separate paper sheet within the box. Do not lose this
installation code; it cannot be replaced. We recommend that you
place one of the stickers on the inside front cover of your manual.
Important You must enter the installation code during installation or
the software will not install.
The installation code ensures adherence to the single user license
agreement, which allows for use of one (1) copy of the Software on
a single computer at a time (refer to your Software License). If the
code is invalid or if another copy of the application installed with that
same code is running on the network, the application displays this
error message: “The maximum number of licensed users are
currently using this copy of FileMaker Pro. Please refer to the
Installation Code section of your Getting Started Guide for further
instructions.”
If you receive this error message, you have entered a duplicate
installation code. To install FileMaker Pro on multiple computers,
you must have a unique installation code for each user, or obtain a
volume license. You must license one copy of FileMaker Pro for
each computer.
Hardware and software requirements
To install and use FileMaker Developer, you need the CD-ROM in
the FileMaker Developer package and the following minimum
equipment and software:
Windows requirements
• an Intel-compatible Pentium 90 or higher
• at least 32 MB of RAM
• a hard disk with at least 210 MB of free space (for a Complete
installation)
• a CD or DVD drive
• Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000
Professional, or Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6
Mac OS requirements
• an Apple computer that supports and is running Mac OS 8.6,
Mac OS 9 versions 9.0 through 9.2.2, or Mac OS X versions 10.1
through 10.1.4
• a CD or DVD drive
• the amount of RAM and disk space required depends on the Mac
OS version:
RAM Disk space (for an Easy
Install)
Mac OS 8.6 or at least 32 MB at least 60 MB
Mac OS 9.x
Mac OS X at least 128 MB at least 60 MB
Important note about supported operating systems
At the time this book was written, FileMaker, Inc. tested
FileMaker Pro with the Windows and Mac OS operating systems
listed above. FileMaker Pro may or may not work with newer
operating system releases. For information on newer operating
systems, see www.filemaker.com.