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
I-2 Developer’s Guide
CGM graphic import filter 7-2
character entities, XML 5-3
character escaping 11-4
characters, platform-specific 4-12
Claddon.clr spelling dictionary 7-3
COLOR attribute 5-7
color palette
FileMaker Pro 5-10
for cross-platform databases 4-13
color values for layout themes 5-10
com.fmi.jdbc.JdbcDriver driver class 11-2
command line, installing from 2-2
comment tags
in CDML templates 9-7
in Java examples 11-11
in layout themes 5-10
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
See also FileMaker Pro CGI requests
described 8-2
Common Log Format 8-14
compression utilities for runtime databases 7-4
configuring external function plug-ins 12-3,
12-9, 12-12
container fields 8-16
converting files to FileMaker Pro 6 1-4
Creating Dynamic Buttons example 4-6
creator codes 6-8
cross-platform databases
binding 6-9
character sets 4-12
color palettes 4-13
design tips 4-11
fonts 4-11
graphics 4-13
outline and shadow text styles 4-11
platform-specific scripts 4-15
QuickTime movies 4-13
scripts for printing 4-14
showing and hiding status bar (Windows)
4-14
Status (CurrentPlatform) function 4-14
testing 4-16
text layouts 4-12
CSS and XML 10-11
custom
About command 6-11, A-1
About layouts 4-8, 4-9
databases, testing 4-16
Help command 6-13, A-1
Help layouts 4-8, 4-9
installers for runtime databases 7-4
layout themes 5-1
Scripts menu name 6-14
custom error pages using CDML 9-11
custom home page
creating with JavaScript 8-7
described 9-2
displaying on the Web 8-5
custom web portal example 8-7
custom web publishing
using a database layout 8-1
using CDML 8-1, 8-2, 9-2
using Java 11-1
using XML 8-1, 10-1
D
damaged runtime files, recovering 7-6
data import files
for runtime databases (Mac OS) 7-3
for runtime databases (Windows) 7-2
data type mapping 11-4, 11-7
Database Design Report 1-1, 4-1
XML grammar 4-1
database error codes 10-3
databases
cross-platform 4-11
opening runtime 7-5
preparing 4-2, 4-11
preventing modification 4-7
recovering damaged 7-6
renaming 6-10
-db request parameter B-6
dBASE import filter 7-2, 7-3
-dbnames requests B-3
DbOpen and DbClose pseudo procedures 11-5
-dbopen and -dbclose requests 8-18, B-5
debugging
external function plug-ins 12-13
decoding and repairing passwords 4-15
default home page, setting 8-6
default values for layout themes 5-9
default XML namespace declarations 10-2
default.htm 8-5
Define Fields command
unavailable in FileMaker Pro 6-2, 6-11
unavailable in runtime applications 6-2,
A-1
Define Relationships command
unavailable in FileMaker Pro 6-2, 6-11
unavailable in runtime applications 6-2,
A-1
Define Value Lists command
unavailable in runtime applications 6-2,
6-9, A-1
-delete requests B-3
DELETE SQL statements 11-4, 11-6
design tips
for cross-platform files 4-11
desktop conflicts with filename extensions 6-8
Developer Tool. See FileMaker Developer
Tool
developer-tool-independent example 11-8
dictionaries 1-5
dictionaries.
See spelling dictionaries
dictionary
in runtime database solution 4-3
differences between runtime applications and
FileMaker Pro A-1
Display encoding parameter 9-12
distributing runtime databases 7-1, 7-4