Instant Web Publishing Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 About publishing FileMaker Pro databases on the web
- Chapter 2 Publishing your database on the web
- Chapter 3 Working with FileMaker databases on the web
- Requirements for accessing FileMaker databases on the web
- Accessing a FileMaker database on the web
- Working with data in Instant Web Publishing
- Logging out of a database and closing a web session
- Displaying a database with the status area hidden
- Differences between FileMaker Pro and Instant Web Publishing
- Using external ODBC data sources in Instant Web Publishing
- Using external FileMaker data sources in Instant Web Publishing
- Chapter 4 Designing a database for Instant Web Publishing
- Tips for designing layouts for Instant Web Publishing
- Tips for working with data in a web browser
- General database design considerations
- Working with graphics, sounds, and movies on the web
- Setting the initial layout and view
- Hiding the status area to customize the interface
- Specifying the sort order for web users
- Web viewer design considerations
- FileMaker scripts and Instant Web Publishing
- Hosting databases with FileMaker Server Advanced: an overview
- Documenting your solution
- Chapter 5 Testing, monitoring, and securing your site
- Index
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Note After entering or editing search criteria in a find request, web users must click the Perform
Find button in the status area to send the request to the host.
Web users can show or hide the status area with a toggle. To have complete control over the user
interface, you can create a startup script to ensure that the status area is hidden. For more
information, see
“Hiding the status area to customize the interface” on page 31.
Working with records that contain a web viewer
Web users can interact with web viewers in much the same way FileMaker Pro desktop users can.
Web users can:
1 view web page content that is related to the current record — including content that requires a
web browser plug-in, such as PDF documents, QuickTime movies, and so on
1 click links to navigate web sites
1 use the shortcut menu within a web viewer to move back and forward between web pages, copy
text, and so on
Note To navigate back and forward within a web viewer in Instant Web Publishing, use the
shortcut menu. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) within the web viewer and choose
Back or Forward. If the layout has more than one web viewer, the shortcut menu works only with
the web viewer that has most recently changed from one page to another, not necessarily the one
that your mouse pointer is over.
Logging out of a database and closing a web session
When web users are finished working with a database, it is important that they click the Log Out
button in the status area and quit the web browser application. If they close browser windows or
quit the browser application before logging out, their session is still open. This might:
1 prevent others from accessing the data, if the maximum number of web connections has been
reached.
1 make data vulnerable to hackers until the specified time out occurs.
If this happens, you can either wait for the session to time out or close the file on the host machine,
which immediately disconnects all web users. There is no way to send a message to web users
requesting that they log out of their sessions.
Include search operators in
your find request
Perform and
cancel find
Status area in Find mode
Duplicate or revert find requests, or
modify previous find results
Toggle shows or hides the
status area
Add or delete find
requests
Change layouts and
layout views
View previous or next
find request
Status of current
find requests
Omit or include records
matching search criteria