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
3-2 Developer’s Guide
Choose
Easy Install or
Custom Install
Displays where
FileMaker
Developer will be
installed
4. Choose Easy Install or Custom Install from the pop-up menu.
The Easy Install option installs all of the FileMaker Developer
program files. The Custom Install option allows you to choose which
portions of the product to install. (In most cases you should use the
Easy Install option.)
5. Look in the Install Location area, and make a note of the folder and
hard drive where FileMaker Developer will be installed.
If you wish, you can choose an another hard drive or another folder
from the Install Location pop-up menu.
6. Click Install.
You see the personalization dialog box.
7. Type your name, company name (if any), and your
FileMaker Developer installation code into the appropriate text
boxes.
The installation code is a seventeen-digit number located on a
multi-part sticker on a separate paper sheet within the box. See
“About the installation code” on page 1-2 for more information.
8. Click OK.
The Installer begins copying files.
When installation completes, you see a Product Registration dialog
box. You can register online if you have an Internet connection. If
you choose to register by letter or by fax, a form will appear in the
Adobe Acrobat Reader application. You can fill out the form on your
computer, print a copy of the form, and mail or fax it to FileMaker.
A final dialog box tells you the installation on your hard disk was
successful.
9. Click Quit to leave the Installer.
Installing ODBC drivers in Mac OS X
In Mac OS X, you must manually install the ODBC drivers after the
FileMaker Developer installation is complete.
1. Navigate to the folder
Applications\FileMaker Developer 6\FileMaker ODBC Drivers.
2. Double-click the FileMaker Pro ODBC Drivers file.
3. Follow the installer instructions.
Note To install the drivers, you will need an administrator password,
such as the password created when you first set up Mac OS X.
Where files are stored on your hard disk
The FileMaker Developer installer copies files to several folders on
your hard disk, depending on the installation options you choose and
your operating system. When installation is complete, you can view
the Installer Log file, which lists the location of each installed file.
The Installer Log file is located in the folder where FileMaker
Developer was installed. You can view it with TextEdit (Mac OS X),
SimpleText (Mac OS 9.x or earlier), or a word processing program.
Accessing files from other user accounts (Mac OS X)
If you logged in as an administrator and installed FileMaker
Developer into the default Applications folder on a computer with
multiple user accounts, other users who log in with a non-
administrator password will not be able to access some FileMaker
Developer application folders and files.