WebDirect Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introducing FileMaker WebDirect
- Chapter 2 Designing a FileMaker WebDirect solution
- Step 1: Plan your FileMaker WebDirect solution
- Step 2: Understand the capabilities of FileMaker WebDirect
- Step 3: Optimize performance
- Step 4: Design layouts for multiple screen sizes
- Step 5: Set default options for layouts, views, and tools
- Step 6: Set up tasks for web users
- Step 7: Enable users to log out of the solution
- Step 8: Review the functions, scripts, and script triggers in your solution
- Step 9: Document your solution
- Chapter 3 Publishing a FileMaker WebDirect solution
- Chapter 4 Working with a FileMaker WebDirect solution
- Requirements for accessing FileMaker WebDirect solutions
- Accessing a FileMaker WebDirect solution
- Working with data in FileMaker WebDirect
- Logging out of a database and closing a web session
- Using external ODBC data sources in FileMaker WebDirect
- Using external FileMaker data sources in FileMaker WebDirect
- Chapter 5 Testing, monitoring, and securing a solution
- Appendix A Design considerations
- Appendix B Changes in FileMaker 13 WebDirect Guide
- Index
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About accessing databases with FileMaker WebDirect
By default, FileMaker Server supports one FileMaker WebDirect or one FileMaker Go connection
at a time. To share information with multiple simultaneous web users, you can purchase additional
concurrent connections at the FileMaker Store. See http://www.filemaker.com.
Other ways to publish FileMaker data on the web
In addition to FileMaker WebDirect, there are two other ways to publish your data:
Static publishing: If your data rarely changes, or if you don’t want users to have a live connection
to your database, you can use static publishing. With static publishing, you export FileMaker
Pro
data to create a webpage that you can further customize with HTML. The webpage doesn’t
change when information in your database changes, and users don’t connect to your database.
See FileMaker
Pro Help.
Custom Web Publishing: To integrate your FileMaker database with a custom website, use the
Custom Web Publishing technologies. See FileMaker
Server Custom Web Publishing with PHP
and FileMaker
Server Custom Web Publishing with XML.