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-10 Developer’s Guide
URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)
accessing Java resources 11-2
FileMaker JDBC URL 11-2
for FileMaker Pro CGI requests 10-2
using to access databases 8-1
Usenglsh.mpr spelling dictionary 7-3, 7-4
user driver property 11-4
User.upr spelling dictionary 7-3, 7-4
UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation 8 Bit) format
10-8
V
values for error codes C-1
VBScript 10-3
-view requests B-2
Visual Cafe 4.0 Expert Edition for Windows
11-1, 11-15
W
W3C Document Object Model 10-16, 10-17
web browsers
for XML Inventory example 10-17
for XML Simple Examples 10-12
receiving static files 8-2
Web Companion
See also publishing on the Web
and runtime applications A-1
built-in home page 8-5
configuration options 8-3
default home page, setting 8-6
described 8-2
enabling 8-3
enabling in Mac OS X 3-5
error messages automatically generated
9-11
error pages recognized 9-11
external functions 8-15
generated error codes C-1
generated log files 8-14
generating XML documents 10-1, 10-2
generating XML DTDs 10-3, 10-5
IP Guest Limit 8-2
monitoring web sites 8-14
remote administration 8-4
restricting access to IP addresses 8-4
sharing databases 8-5
Web- external functions 8-16
web portal example 8-7
web security 8-3, 8-4
Web Security.pdf 1-5
web sites
Apple 4-13, 6-8
Apple Developer Support 12-8
Borland/Inprise (Corel) 11-11
FileMaker support pages 8-1
hosting multiple 8-6
Javasoft 11-7
monitoring 8-14, 8-15
Sun Microsystems 11-8
testing without a network connection 8-17
W3C organization 8-14
web styles 8-11
WebPortal object 8-7
web-safe colors 5-7, 5-10
What’s This? Help (Windows) 4-10, 7-1
WinZip for Windows 7-4
WML (Wireless Markup Language)
documents 8-13
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) 8-14
X, Y, Z
XML
CGI requests 10-2, 10-8
character entities 5-3
described 10-1
document type definitions (DTDs) 10-2,
10-3, 10-5
documents for layout themes 5-1
documents generated by the Web
Companion 8-1
-edit request example 10-10
editors 5-1
encoded using UTF-8 format 10-3, 10-8
examples comparing CSS, XSL, and
JavaScript 10-11
FMPDSORESULT grammars 10-3, 10-4
FMPXMLLAYOUT grammars 10-7
FMPXMLRESULT grammars 10-5
format parameters 10-2, 10-3
grammar for Database Design Report 4-1
grammars (or schemas), described 10-2
import filter, Mac OS 7-3
import filter, Windows 7-3
namespaces 10-3, 10-4, 10-6, 10-7
-new request example 10-9
parsers 10-2, 10-8
using CSS 10-10
using XSL 10-10
XML 1.0 specification 5-3, 10-2
XML Inventory example 10-17
XML-document processing instruction 5-3
XML-stylesheet processing instruction
10-2, 10-10
XSLT example
XPAL files for cross-platform use 7-2
Xpl- external functions 12-4
XSL stylesheets 10-10, 10-11
XSLT example 10-14