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-4 Developer’s Guide
hardware and software requirements 1-2
installation code 1-2
installing (Mac OS) 3-1
installing (Windows) 2-1
license agreement 1-6
registering 1-1
FileMaker Developer Tool
automating the process 6-15
described 6-1
generated DLLs (Windows) 7-2
generated runtime files 7-1
options, described 6-2
saving option settings 6-14
specifying files 6-3
using 6-2
FileMaker JDBC Driver
data type mapping 11-7
described 11-1
driver class and main entry point 11-2
escaping lower ASCII characters 11-7
examples 11-8, 11-11, 11-15
FileMaker extensions 11-8
implementing JDBC 1.2 API 11-2
including with FileMaker Pro Java
applications and applets 11-2
JDBC interfaces 11-8
opening and closing databases 11-5
registering with the JDBC driver manager
11-2, 11-3
specifying the JDBC URL 11-2
SQL support 11-4
using 11-2
working with JDK 1.1 and Java 2 11-2
FileMaker Pro 4.0 Developer Edition,
upgrading from 4-16
FileMaker Pro CGI requests
adding records to portals 9-4, 10-9
and script buttons 8-9
CDML request and parameter names 9-4
described 8-2
editing multiple records in portals 9-4,
10-10
example CGI requests for XML B-1
for accessing databases 8-2
for CDML 9-3
for XML 10-2, 10-8
using JavaScript 8-8, 10-16
XML request and parameter names 10-8
FileMaker Pro Explorer application
described 11-8
starting 11-9
FileMaker Pro Help
See also Help
described 4-8
FileMaker Pro plug-ins. See external function
plug-ins
FileMaker Pro themes. See layout themes
FileMaker Server 7-5
FileMaker, Inc.
registering external function plug-ins 12-1,
12-13
FileMakerExplorer.java file 11-10
filename extensions
adding or removing .fp5 6-14
desktop conflicts (Mac OS) 6-8
for runtime databases 6-8
registered by runtime applications 7-5
registry conflicts (Windows) 6-8
filenames for instant web pages 8-13
files
closing in Kiosk mode 4-4
converting to FileMaker Pro 6 1-4
cross-platform 4-11
opening runtime 7-5
preparing 4-2, 4-11
recovering damaged 7-6
renaming 6-10
Find mode in runtime applications A-1
-find requests 10-13, 10-14, B-1
FMFlags.h header file 12-7
FMP.js JavaScript library 10-16, 10-17, 10-21
FMPDSORESULT grammars 10-3
FMP-Include tag 9-16
Fmpjdbc12.jar file 11-2
FMP-Log tag 8-15
FMPRT.hlp file (Windows) 7-1
FMPXMLLAYOUT grammars 10-7
FMPXMLRESULT grammars 10-6
FMTHEME element 5-2
FMX filename extension 12-3
FONT attribute 5-8
Fonts folder, including with runtime databases
(Mac OS) 7-3
fonts for cross-platform databases 4-11
footer layout parts 5-5
Format encoding parameter 9-12
format files
and web styles 8-13
described 9-2
templates, using 9-6
-format request parameter B-7
fp5 filename extension, adding 6-14
frame types 2-3
function name prefix for external function
plug-ins 12-10
functions
See also external functions
Status (CurrentError) C-1
Status (CurrentPlatform) 4-14
Web- external functions 8-16
Xpl- external functions 12-4, 12-5
G
Go to Layout script step 4-6
grammars. See XML
graphic import files
for runtime databases (Mac OS) 7-3
for runtime databases (Windows) 7-2
graphics in cross-platform databases 4-13
gt (greater than) character entity 5-3
Guest Book CDML example 9-13, 9-14