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
I-6 FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited Administrator’s Guide
Web Companion
See also publishing on the Web
built-in home page 3-5
configuration options 3-3
default home page, setting 3-6
described 3-2
enabling 3-3
enabling in Mac OS X C-1
error messages automatically
generated 4-13
error pages recognized 4-13
external functions 3-15
generated error codes B-1
generated log files 3-14
generating XML documents 5-1, 5-2
generating XML DTDs 5-3, 5-5
IP Guest Limit 3-2
monitoring web sites 3-14
remote administration 3-4
restricting access to IP addresses 3-4
sharing databases 3-5
Web- external functions 3-16
Web folder, described 3-3
web portal example 3-7
web security 3-3, 3-4
and RAICs 1-3
Web Server Connector
administration account 2-1
configuring by database 2-4
configuring by host 2-3
described 1-1
installation requirements 1-3
installing on Linux 1-7
installing on Mac OS X Server 1-6
installing on Windows 1-4
web sites
Borland/Inprise (Corel) 6-11
FileMaker Unlimited support pages 3-1
FileMaker, Inc. vii
hosting multiple 3-6
Javasoft 6-7
monitoring 3-14, 3-15
Sun Microsystems 6-8
testing without a network connection 3-18
W3C organization 3-15
web styles 3-11
WebPortal object 3-7
Windows, requirements for WSC 1-3
WML (Wireless Markup Language)
documents 3-14
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) 3-15
WSC 1-1
WSC. See Web Server Connector
X, Y, Z
XML
CGI requests 5-2, 5-8
described 5-1
document type definitions (DTDs) 5-2,
5-3, 5-5
documents generated by the Web
Companion 3-1
-edit request example 5-10
encoded using UTF-8 format 5-3, 5-8
examples comparing CSS, XSL, and
JavaScript 5-11
FMPDSORESULT grammars 5-3, 5-4
FMPXMLLAYOUT grammars 5-7
FMPXMLRESULT grammars 5-5
format parameters 5-2, 5-3
grammars (or schemas), described 5-2
namespaces 5-3, 5-4, 5-6, 5-7
-new request example 5-9
parsers 5-2, 5-8
using CSS 5-10
using XSL 5-10
XML 1.0 specification 5-2
XML Inventory example 5-17
XML-stylesheet processing
instruction 5-2, 5-10
XSLT example
XSL stylesheets 5-10, 5-11
XSLT example 5-14