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
Index
Numerics
3-character filename extensions
for runtime databases (Mac OS) 6-8
for runtime databases (Windows) 6-8
registered by the runtime application 7-5
A
About <your database> layout
adding a custom script 6-2, 6-4, 6-11
creating 4-8
displaying 4-9
example 4-8
password warning 4-15
prevented modification warning 4-15
requirements 4-8
using 4-8
About FileMaker Pro Runtime, default menu
command 6-12
Access Log File option 8-4, 8-14
access privileges
settings for Kiosk mode 4-7
Access Privileges command
denying access to 4-7
unavailable in FileMaker Pro 6-2, 6-11
unavailable in runtime applications 6-2,
A-1
administrator privileges
and Mac OS X installations 3-2
and Windows installation 2-1
amp (&) character entity 5-3
API (application programming interface)
for the FileMaker JDBC Driver 11-8
Java, for executing SQL statements 11-1
apos (‘) character entity 5-3
Apple events in runtime applications A-1
AppleScript
error codes C-1
applets, Java
Microsoft XML Data Source Object 10-3
Application Preferences in runtime
applications A-1
ASCII characters
escaping in SQL identifiers 11-7
in cross-platform databases 4-12
in plug-in IDs 12-8
in theme names 5-8
in XML documents 10-8
Asset Management.fp5 database 11-11, 11-15
attribute values for layout themes 5-7
automating the Developer Tool 6-15
auxiliary files
opening 4-2
updating 7-7
B
Balloon Help (Mac OS) 4-8
basic Java classes 11-1, 11-8
Binder utility. See FileMaker Developer Tool
binding
databases to runtime applications 6-2, 6-6,
7-1
files for cross-platform runtime solutions
6-9
binding key for runtime database solutions 6-7
BMP graphic import filter 7-2
body layout parts 5-4
Break encoding parameter 9-12
Browse mode in runtime applications A-1
built-in home page, displaying on the Web 8-5
buttons
creating 4-6
for closing Help windows 4-9
showing attached scripts 4-6
C
C/C++ 12-1
cache size
in Mac OS X 3-3
in Windows 2-4
calculations, using external functions 8-15
CALL stored procedure SQL statements 11-4
cascading style sheets (CSS) 10-10, 10-11,
10-13
CDML
action tags 9-4, 9-8
CGI requests 9-3
described 8-2, 9-1
encoding parameters 9-12
error pages 9-11
examples 9-1, 9-14, 9-15
FMP-Include tag 9-16
format files 9-1, 9-2
replacement tags 9-8
templates 9-6
-token tags 9-16
variable tags 9-4, 9-8
CDML Reference database
described 9-1, 9-9
using 9-9
CDML Tool
choosing encoding parameters 9-6
described 9-1, 9-5
displaying tag syntax 9-6
parameters and value list options 9-6
tag categories 9-8
Tags tab 9-6
Templates tab 9-5
using 9-5
centering database windows in Kiosk mode 4-6
CGI requests.
See FileMaker Pro CGI requests