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-6 Developer’s Guide
layout parts, XML elements for 5-4
layout themes
attribute values 5-7
attributes for single-line elements 5-6
basic requirements 5-3
checking for errors 5-11
color values 5-10
comment tags 5-10
creating 5-1
default values 5-9
elements for layout parts 5-4
elements for layout text 5-5
modifying 5-1
multi-line elements 5-4, 5-5
pattern values 5-9
single-line elements 5-4, 5-5
-layoutnames requests B-4
layouts
About layout 4-8, 6-12
cross-platform 4-11
Help layout 4-9
leading grand summary layout parts 5-4
leading subsummary layout parts 5-4
license agreement
for FileMaker Developer 1-6
for ODBC driver 1-6
links
HREF 8-2, 8-6, 9-3, 10-2
testing 8-18
to CDML format files 9-2
to IP addresses 8-6
XML example requests B-1
Local Data Access Companion plug-in A-1
localhost networking 8-18
log files
generated by the Web Companion 8-14
installation 2-2, 3-2
-lop request parameter B-7
Lotus SLD graphic import filter 7-2
lt (less than) character entity 5-3
M
Mac OS X
enabling Web Companion 3-5
FileMaker Pro features not supported 1-4
Help tags 4-8
MacPaint graphic import filter 7-2
main entry point for external function plug-ins
12-9
mapping
colors for cross-platform databases 4-13
mapping data type 11-4, 11-7
master passwords 4-7
-max request parameter B-8
memory 2-4, 3-3
menu commands
available in FileMaker Pro A-3
available in runtime applications A-3
custom About layout 6-2, 6-4, 6-11, A-1
custom Help layout 6-2, 6-4, 6-13, A-1
default About runtime layout 6-12
permanently unavailable in FileMaker Pro
6-2, 6-11
unavailable in runtime applications 6-2,
6-9, A-1
messages
error, examples of 9-12
errors sent by the Web Companion 9-11,
C-1
sent to external function plug-ins 12-10
Metafile graphic import filter 7-2
Microsoft Notepad 10-20
Microsoft XML Data Source Object (DSO)
10-2, 10-3
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions) types 8-13
MindVision Installer VISE 7-4
minimum requirements for runtime database
solutions 7-4
ModId pseudo column 11-4
-modid request parameter B-7
modifying FileMaker Pro layout themes 5-1
monitoring web sites
using external functions 8-15
using log files 8-14
MRJ 2.2 11-9
multi-line elements for layout themes 5-4, 5-5
N
namespaces, XML
described 10-3
for the FMPDSORESULT grammar 10-4
for the FMPXMLLAYOUT grammar 10-7
for the FMPXMLRESULT grammar 10-6
naming runtime database solutions 6-7
navigating in Kiosk mode 4-4
NCSA/CERN-compatible Common Log
Format 8-14
networking
requirements 1-3
networks
protocol 2-3, 3-3
New Database script step A-6
New Database tool A-3
New Layout/Report assistant 5-1, 5-2, 5-5
–new requests
CDML examples 9-4
XML examples 10-9, B-2
Note 9-4
Notepad 11-10, 11-11
O
ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) driver
See also JDBC, FileMaker JDBC Driver
installing in Mac OS X 3-2
Java equivalent 11-1
OLE automation in runtime applications A-1
onClick JavaScript 8-8
onClick scripting event 10-16
onLoad event handler 10-16