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
Chapter 3
Publishing your database on the Web
The FileMaker Pro Web Companion plug-in makes it possible for
you to publish your database on the Internet or an intranet in several
different ways, giving you more choices and control over the design
and functionality of your web pages.
You can publish your database with:
1 custom web publishing using XML
1 FileMaker Pro database-aware Java applets using the FileMaker
JDBC Driver or the proprietary FileMaker Java Class Library
1 custom web publishing using CDML
1 FileMaker Pro Instant Web Publishing
1 a custom home page using Instant Web Publishing
1 custom web publishing using a database layout
1 static web publishing (exporting data into an HTML table)
When you serve your databases and your instant or custom web
pages via the Web Companion, users can access your databases from
their web browsers using a simple URL.
This chapter gives general information on setting up and using the
Web Companion for creating custom web pages.
Note Instant Web Publishing is not supported under the Web Server
Connector in FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited.
Types of web publishing
Custom web publishing with XML
You can use the Web Companion to generate data from your
FileMaker Pro databases into Extensible Markup Language (XML)
documents. With these XML documents, you can (for example) use
JavaScript and the W3C Document Object Model to dynamically
manipulate data after it has been downloaded from your database.
Many of the actions (such as searching) can be performed without
the need to reconnect to the database, making the web user’s
interaction with the database happen much faster.
For information on custom publishing your database with XML, see
chapter 5, “Using FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data.”
For a list of XML resources and examples, and an overview of what
XML is and how it can be used with FileMaker Pro, see “XML and
FileMaker 5—a Technology Preview” on the FileMaker support
pages at www.filemaker.com. As a shortcut, double-click FileMaker
on the Web (included on the FileMaker Pro CD).
Custom web publishing with JDBC
The FMWSC and Tools CD provides a JDBC (Java database
connectivity) API-compatible driver that allows you to create
FileMaker Pro database-aware Java applets for your web site using
any Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool. This is an
improvement from using the proprietary FileMaker Java classes that
are not recognizable by RAD tools.
With a FileMaker Pro database-aware Java applet, you can make
your databases function more like they are being used in
FileMaker Pro rather than in a web browser.