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
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Is used to describe these And may contain
This attribute characteristics these values
FONT The name of the font. More
than one font name can be
specified, separated by
commas. The first font
available on a user’s
computer will be used in the
layout.
Note Font values are case
sensitive and must be entered
in sentence style with initial
caps only.
FONT = “Times New
Roman”
FONT = “Geneva”
FONT = “New York,
Times, Helvetica, Arial”
Or any other available font
(In FileMaker Pro, choose
Format menu > Font to see
the available fonts.)
Is used to describe these And may contain
This attribute characteristics these values
PATTERN One of 64 valid patterns from PATTERN = “1”
the fill pattern palette in
PATTERN = “47”
FileMaker Pro—for
PATTERN = “64”
background fills in layout
parts, fields, text, and field
PATTERN = “NONE”
labels, and for borders of
PATTERN = “SOLID”
fields, field labels, and text.
PATTERN = “LTGRAY”
See “Finding values for
PATTERN = “GRAY”
patterns and colors” on
PATTERN = “DKGRAY”
page 5-9.
SIDES One to four sides on a field’s VALUE="TOP"
border.
VALUE="BOTTOM"
To describe all four sides, you
VALUE="LEFT"
can combine all four values.
VALUE="RIGHT"
Or any combination, such
as:
VALUE= “TOP BOTTOM
LEFT RIGHT”
VALUE= “LEFT TOP”
SIZE The point size for a font. Any SIZE = “36”
(for the FONT
valid point size can be
SIZE = “12”
element)
specified.
SIZE = “9”
If a font size is unavailable on
the computer or for a
particular font, FileMaker Pro
will substitute the closest size.
HINT The name of the platform that
the theme name is edited on.
This attribute ensures that any
upper-ASCII characters
present in the THEMENAME
value (for example, an accent
over a letter in the theme’s
name) will appear in
FileMaker Pro on both
Windows and Mac OS.
HINT = “WIN”
HINT = “MAC”
ONOFF Whether a field’s border VALUE =“ON”
should be displayed (turned
VALUE =“OFF”
on or off).
PARTNUMBER To distinguish multiple
leading or trailing
subsummary parts in a layout.
This attribute is ignored for all
other parts. FileMaker Pro
supports values 0 through 9
and ignores any other value.
VALUE =“0”
VALUE =“1”
VALUE =“2”
VALUE =“3”
VALUE =“4”
VALUE =“5”
VALUE =“6”
VALUE =“7”
VALUE =“8”
VALUE =“9”