Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface Introducing FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited
- Chapter 1 Installing the FileMaker Web Server Connector
- Chapter 2 Administering the Web Server Connector
- Chapter 3 Publishing your database on the Web
- Types of web publishing
- Using the FileMakerPro 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 networkconnection
- Opening password-protected databasesremotely
- Chapter 4 Custom web publishing using CDML
- About the CDML examples
- General steps for custom web publishing using CDML
- About CDML format files
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests using CDML
- Using the CDML Tool and templates
- Modified CDML tags
- About the CDML Reference database
- Creating error messages
- Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag
- Planning your web site
- Chapter 5 Using FileMakerPro XML to deliver your data
- About the XML examples
- General process for custom web publishing using XML
- Generating an XML document
- Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar
- Using the FileMakerPro Extended XMLgrammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests for an XML document
- Using style sheets with your XMLdocument
- Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript
- Looking at the XML Inventory example
- Chapter 6 Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data
- About the JDBC examples
- About JDBC
- Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- SQL supported by the FileMaker JDBCDriver
- FileMakerPro support for Unicodecharacters
- About the FileMaker JDBC Driver interfaces and extensions
- Example 1: Looking at the FileMakerPro Explorer application
- Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventoryapplication
- Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application
- Using the FileMaker Java classes
- Appendix A Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMaker 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
- 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 B FileMaker Pro values for error codes
- Appendix C Enabling the FileMaker Pro Web Companion in MacOS X
- Index
Index
A
Access Log File option 3-4, 3-14
administering the Web Server Connector 2-1
Apache Web Server 1-1, 1-4
API (application programming interface)
for FileMaker Pro 4.0 Java Class
Library 6-17
for the FileMaker JDBC Driver 6-8
Java, for executing SQL statements 6-1
AppleScript error codes B-1
applets, Java
FileMaker Pro 6-18
Microsoft XML Data Source Object 5-3
ASCII characters
escaping in SQL identifiers 6-7
in XML documents 5-8
Asset Management.fp5 database 6-11, 6-14
B
basic Java classes 6-1, 6-8
Break encoding parameter 4-14
built-in home page, displaying on the
Web 3-5
C
calculations, using external functions 3-15
CALL stored procedure SQL statements 6-4
cascading style sheets (CSS) 5-10, 5-11, 5-13
CDML
action tags 4-4, 4-8, 4-9
CGI requests 4-3
described 3-2, 4-1
encoding parameters 4-14
error pages 4-13
examples 4-1, 4-15, 4-16, 4-17
FMP-If replacement tag 4-10
FMP-Include tag 4-17
format files 4-1, 4-2
modified tags 4-10
new action tags 4-9
new replacement tags 4-10
new variable tags 4-10
replacement tags 4-8, 4-10
templates 4-7
-token tags 4-10, 4-17
variable tags 4-4, 4-8, 4-10
CDML Reference database
described 4-1, 4-11
using 4-12
CDML tags disabled in 5.5 4-9
CDML Tool
choosing encoding parameters 4-6
described 4-1, 4-5
displaying tag syntax 4-6
parameters and value list options 4-6
tag categories 4-8
Tags tab 4-6
Templates tab 4-5
using 4-5
CGI requests.
See FileMaker Pro CGI requests
character escaping 6-4
com.fmi.jdbc.JdbcDriver driver class 6-2
comment tags
in CDML templates 4-7
in Java examples 6-10
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
See also FileMaker Pro CGI requests
described 3-2
Common Log Format 3-14
configuring a RAIC 1-1
container fields 3-16
CSS and XML 5-11
custom error pages using CDML 4-13
custom home page
creating with a layout 3-8
creating with JavaScript 3-7
described 4-2
displaying on the Web 3-5
custom web portal example 3-7
custom web publishing
using a database layout 3-1
using CDML 3-1, 3-2, 4-2
using Java 6-1
using XML 3-1, 5-1
customer support, getting vii
D
data type mapping 6-4, 6-7
database error codes 5-3
-db request parameter A-6
-dbnames requests A-3
DbOpen and DbClose pseudo procedures 6-5
-dbopen and -dbclose requests 3-18, A-5
default home page, setting 3-6
default XML namespace declarations 5-2
default.htm 3-6
-delete requests A-3
DELETE SQL statements 6-4, 6-6
developer-tool-independent example 6-8
Display encoding parameter 4-14
Document Object Model (DOM)
Microsoft 5-3