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 mobile browsers
- Step 5: Set the solution icon and 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: Set up external data sources
- Step 10: Document your solution
- Chapter 3 Publishing a FileMaker WebDirect solution
- Chapter 4 Testing, monitoring, and securing a solution
- Appendix A Design considerations
- Index
Chapter 2 | Designing a FileMaker WebDirect solution 18
Web users may be prompted to install browser plug-ins. For example, web users may be
prompted to install Windows Media Player or QuickTime Player to play media files. If you know
which browser your web users will use, then test your media files with that browser.
The recommended file types appear in the table below.
Working with virtual windows
Web users can navigate between multiple virtual windows in a single web-browser window to view
a solution in different layouts, views, modes, and so on. Only one virtual window displays in the
browser window at a time, but inactive virtual windows remain open when they are not visible.
Virtual windows are opened, closed, and manipulated using script steps. For information about
individual script steps, see FileMaker
Pro Help.
Keep these points in mind:
1 If you open a new virtual window with the New Window script step, provide scripted buttons to
navigate and close the virtual windows.
1 Close unused virtual windows with the Close Window script step.
1 If you design a script to perform an external script from a FileMaker data source and you want
to return to the original window, add a Select Window [Current Window] script step immediately
after the Perform Script step in the original script.
1 If you use the Exit Application script step or close the last virtual window with the Close Window
script step, the script ends the user’s session and takes the user back to FileMaker
WebDirect
Launch Center.
Importing and exporting data
Web users may need to share data between the solution and another application. In
FileMaker
WebDirect, web users can import and export the following file formats:
Note To import from a FileMaker Pro file, web users must have access to an account in the file,
and the account must have the FileMaker
WebDirect extended privilege enabled.
Exported or saved files are downloaded to the web browser’s default download location.
For this kind of media Use these recommended file types
Video file .mp4
Audio file .mp3
Image file .jpg, .png, .gif
File format Import Export
FileMaker Pro X
Tab-Separated Text X X
Comma-Separated Text X X
DBF X X
Merge X X
Excel X
HTML Table X