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 I-9
searching
databases on the Web 8-1, 9-14
TechInfo database 1-6
security 8-3, 8-4
SELECT SQL statements 11-4, 11-6
Set Multi-User script step A-6
Set Zoom Level script step 4-6
setting document margins for printing 4-3
setting up single-machine networks 8-18
shadow and outline text styles 4-11
sharing
databases via the Web Companion 8-5
runtime files over a network 7-5
Shopping Cart CDML example 9-13, 9-15
Shutdown message 12-11
SIDES attribute 5-8
SimpleText 11-10
single-line elements for layout themes 5-4, 5-5
SIZE attribute 5-8
-skip request parameter B-8
Solution Extras folder for runtime databases
(Mac OS) 7-3
Solution Options file
modifying for auto-customizing 6-15
renaming the file 6-15
using 6-15
Solutions Development Kit (SDK) for
FileMaker Pro 3.0 4-16
solutions. See runtime database solutions
-sortfield request parameter B-9
-sortorder request parameter B-9
spaces in field names 10-4, 11-3, 11-13
specifying files for the Developer Tool 6-3
spell checking
in runtime solution 4-3
spelling checker files, for runtime databases
(Windows ) 7-2
spelling dictionaries
for runtime databases (Mac OS) 7-3
for runtime databases (Windows) 7-2
SQL statements
delivered by JDBC drivers 11-1
supported by FileMaker JDBC Driver 11-4
SQL-92 Entry Level compliant 11-2
startup scripts
creating 4-5
to display custom layout 6-6
static web publishing 8-1, 8-16, 9-14
Status (CurrentError) function C-1
Status (CurrentPlatform) function 4-14
Status Bar Help (Windows) 4-8
status bar, showing and hiding 4-14
StuffIt 7-4
STYLE attribute 5-9
-stylehref request parameter B-10
stylesheets
CSS 10-10, 10-11, 10-13
described 10-2
XML-stylesheet processing instruction
10-2, 10-10
XSL 10-10, 10-11
XSLT 10-14
–styletype and –stylehref parameters 10-10
-styletype request parameter B-10
subname, for FileMaker JDBC URL 11-2
subprotocol, for FileMaker JDBC URL 11-2
suppressing Instant Web Publishing controls
8-11
Swing 1.1.1 11-1, 11-8
Symantec Visual Cafe 11-1
System folder for runtime databases
(Windows) 7-2
T
TCP/IP 1-3
TCP/IP port number 8-4
Mac OS X 3-5
TechInfo database
described 1-6
technical support
for FileMaker Developer 1-1
for runtime applications 1-6
templates
CDML 9-6
testing
cross-platform databases 4-16
custom database solutions 4-16
text editors 5-1
text styles, outline and shadow 4-11
THEMEDEFAULT element 5-9
THEMENAME element 5-2
themes. See layout themes
three-character filename extensions
for runtime databases 6-8
registered by runtime applications
(Windows) 7-5
TIFF graphic import filter 7-2
title footer layout parts 5-5
title header layout parts 5-4
Toggle Status Area script step 4-6, 8-12
Toggle Window script step 4-6
-token tags 9-16
toolbars in runtime applications A-3
trailing grand summary layout parts 5-5
trailing subsummary layout parts 5-4
trapping errors C-1
U
Ukenglsh.mpr spelling dictionary 7-3, 7-4
Unicode characters 10-8, 11-7
uninstalling FileMaker Developer (Windows)
2-2
UPDATE SQL statements 11-4, 11-6
updating
internal reference links 6-10
runtime database solutions 7-6
upgrading runtime databases 4-16
URL encoding parameter 9-12