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
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For information, see chapter 6, “Using Java and JDBC to deliver
your data.”
For a list of JDBC resources, see the product support pages on the
FileMaker, Inc. web site at www.filemaker.com. As a shortcut,
double-click FileMaker on the Web (included on the Filemaker Pro
CD).
Custom web publishing with CDML
The FileMaker Pro Web Companion lets you publish your database
with custom web pages using a proprietary markup language called
CDML. Included with FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited are all the tools,
templates, and examples you need to create your own custom web
pages using CDML. For information, see chapter 4, “Custom web
publishing using CDML.”
Instant Web Publishing
When you use FileMaker Pro Instant Web Publishing, the Web
Companion generates predesigned HTML forms with HREF links to
your database. For general information on web publishing and using
the Instant Web Publishing feature, see chapter 14, “Publishing
databases on the Web,” in the FileMaker Pro User’s Guide or see
FileMaker Pro Help.
Note Instant Web Publishing is not supported under the Web Server
Connector in FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited.
Other ways to create custom web sites for your data
If you want, you can create a custom home page to go with your
instant web pages instead of using the built-in FileMaker Pro Instant
Web Publishing home page. See “Creating a custom home page” on
page 3-5, “Creating a custom home page for Instant Web
Publishing” on page 3-6, and “Creating a custom web site using a
database layout” on page 3-8.
Static web publishing with HTML
You can also publish your data on static web pages if you don’t need
dynamic web access to your database. See “Exporting data to a static
HTML page” on page 3-16.
Using the FileMaker Pro Web Companion
The Web Companion is a plug-in that acts as a Common Gateway
Interface (CGI) application for handling interactions between
FileMaker Pro and your web browser. The Web Companion also
functions as a web server by providing static files (such as HTML
pages and images) to the web browser.
Web users access your database either by accessing the IP address of
the computer running FileMaker Pro Unlimited with their browser
(which takes them to the home page) or by clicking an HREF link
that contains a specific CGI request for FileMaker Pro. The Web
Companion then sends via HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
either the default home page or the web page specified in the
FileMaker CGI request.
The Web Companion in FileMaker Pro Unlimited can serve your
databases to an unlimited number of IP addresses at any time. (The
Web Companion in FileMaker Pro can only serve to a maximum of
ten IP addresses in a 12-hour period, as indicated by the IP Guest
Limit of 10 in the Web Companion Configuration dialog box.)
If desired, you can set up your computer for testing without a
constant connection to the Internet or an intranet. For information,
see “Testing your site without a network connection” on page 3-18.
For general information on the Web Companion and about
connecting to the Internet or an intranet, see chapter 14, “Publishing
databases on the Web” in the FileMaker Pro User’s Guide.