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 11-15
Field type Field name Field attribute
Date Date Purchased User defined entry field
Container Picture Graphic import
Text Serial Number User defined entry field
Text Information User defined entry field
Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe
Inventory application
This example demonstrates how to build a Java front end to a
FileMaker database using the development tool Symantec’s Visual
Cafe Expert Edition for Windows and the FileMaker JDBC Driver.
The following steps are for creating a Java application that accesses
the inventory_db database.
Note Because the Visual Cafe DataBound Project Wizard does not
support spaces in database filenames or field names, or periods and
spaces in table names, this example uses a modified version of the
Asset Management.fp5 database that ships with FileMaker Pro,
called inventory_db (with no filename extension).
Install the example and the FileMaker JDBC Driver
If necessary, install the Visual Cafe example and the FileMaker
JDBC Driver.
Developer Extras\FileMaker, Inc\External FileMaker APIs\FileMaker JDBC
Driver \JDBC Examples \Visual Cafe 4.0 Expert Edition
Developer Extras\FileMaker, Inc\External FileMaker APIs\FileMaker JDBC
Driver\Fmpjdbc12.jar
The Visual Cafe folder contains the modified database file used in
this example and all of the completed files generated by the
DataBound Project Wizard for the application.
Set up Visual Cafe to use the FileMaker JDBC Driver
1. Start Visual Cafe 4.0 Expert Edition for Windows.
2. Choose Tools menu > Environment Options and click the Internal VM
tab. Then click New for the Classpath Settings.
3. Locate the Fmpjdbc12.jar file and add it to the SC.INI CLASSPATH
list to add the FileMaker JDBC Driver to the Visual Cafe
environment.
Open and share the inventory_db database
1. In FileMaker Pro, open the inventory_db file in the Visual Cafe
example folder:
Developer Extras\FileMaker, Inc\External FileMaker APIs\FileMaker JDBC
Driver \JDBC Examples \Visual Cafe 4.0 Expert Edition \inventory_db
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.
Create a new Visual Cafe project
1. In Visual Cafe, choose File menu > New Project.
2. Select the DataBound Project Wizard template and click OK.