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
Using JDBC to deliver your data 11-9
Setup requirements
Included with the example is the swingall.jar file, on the FileMaker
Developer CD.
Developer Extras>FileMaker, Inc>External FileMaker APIs>FileMaker
JDBC Driver>JDBC Examples>FileMaker Explorer
To view the example on Windows machines, you need:
• Java.exe (included with JDK 1.3 for Windows) or equivalent Java
virtual machine installed in the system path on your computer
To view the example In Mac OS machines, you need:
• MRJ 2.2 or equivalent Java virtual machine installed on your
computer
Install the example and the FileMaker JDBC Driver
If necessary, install the FileMaker Explorer example and the
FileMaker JDBC Driver.
Developer Extras\FileMaker, Inc\External FileMaker APIs\FileMaker JDBC
Driver \ JDBC Examples\ FileMaker Explorer
Developer Extras\FileMaker, Inc\External FileMaker APIs\ FileMaker
JDBC Driver\ Fmpjdbc12.jar
Open and share your databases via the Web
1. In FileMaker Pro, open any FileMaker Pro database, such as the
Inventory.fp5 database located in the JBuilder example folder:
Developer Extras\FileMaker, Inc\External FileMaker APIs\ FileMaker
JDBC Driver\JDBC Examples \Builder 3.0 Professional \Inventory.fp5
2. Choose File menu > Sharing, verify that Web Companion is selected,
and click OK to share the database on the Web.
For information about setting up the Web Companion so that it’s
already selected in this dialog box, see
“Enabling the Web
Companion” on page 8-3.
Run the FileMaker Pro Explorer application
The FileMaker Pro Explorer application is located in the FileMaker
Explorer folder:
Developer Extras\FileMaker, Inc\External FileMaker APIs\FileMaker JDBC
Driver \Examples\FileMaker Explorer\FileMakerExplorer.bat
Developer Extras\FileMaker, Inc\External FileMaker APIs\FileMaker JDBC
Driver\Examples\FileMaker Explorer\FileMakerExplorer
1. Start the FileMaker Pro Explorer application by doing one of the
following:
• Windows: Choose Start menu > Run and locate and select the
FileMakerExplorer.bat file. Then, add the location of the JDK for
running the application at the end of the command line:
“full path\FileMakerExplorer.bat” c:\jdk1.3
• Mac OS X: Double-click the application icon to start
FileMaker Pro Explorer.
Replace entire text
with the JDBC URL
for the computer
running the
database
2. Click the root node of the tree in the left side of the FileMaker Pro
Explorer window to select it, and replace the entire text with the
JDBC URL for the computer that is running the database, for
example, type jdbc:fmpro:http://localhost/. Then press
Enter.