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 4
Testing, monitoring, and securing a solution
Before notifying web users that your FileMaker WebDirect solution is available, it is important to
verify that it looks and functions as you expect.
1 Test features like finding, adding, deleting, sorting, importing, and exporting records with
different accounts and privilege sets.
1 Verify that various privilege sets are performing as expected by logging in with different
accounts. Make sure unauthorized users can’t access or modify your data.
1 Verify that all container fields store and display container data as expected. See “Working with
graphics, sounds, and movies” on page 17.
1 Test all scripts and scripted buttons to verify that the outcome is expected. See “Scripts” on
page 20 for information on designing scripts that will work well in web browsers.
1 Test your solution with different operating systems and browsers.
1 If the webpages aren’t displaying properly, see “FileMaker WebDirect requirements” on
page 10 and review chapter 2, “Designing a FileMaker WebDirect solution.”
Testing your database with a network connection
To access a published solution, open a web browser, type the IP address of the FileMaker Server
deployment followed by /fmi/webd, and press Enter or Return. See
“Accessing a
FileMaker WebDirect solution” on page 28.
Testing your database without a network connection
Test your database in all compatible web browsers on your FileMaker Server computer.
To access FileMaker WebDirect solutions on the host computer, open a web browser, type
http://127.0.0.1/fmi/webd, and press Enter or Return.
FileMaker WebDirect Launch Center should display a list of all open database files that have
FileMaker
WebDirect enabled. If you don’t see an open, shared database listed, see “Accessing
a FileMaker WebDirect solution” on page 28.
Monitoring web activity with log files
Use the Log Viewer in FileMaker Server Admin Console to view activity, client access, and other
information about your FileMaker
WebDirect solutions. For information on using the Log Viewer,
see FileMaker
Server Help.
To log activity for FileMaker WebDirect solutions:
1. Open Admin Console. See “Changing FileMaker WebDirect settings in Admin Console” on
page 25.
2. Click the Web Publishing > General Settings tab.