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
Publishing your database on the Web 3-5
By default, web browsers use the TCP/IP port number 80 to
communicate with the web server. If that port is in use, you can use
any number between 1024 and 65535 or the port number 591, which
is registered by FileMaker, Inc. with the Internet Assigned Numbers
Authority (IANA) for use with the FileMaker Pro Web Companion.
Mac OS X To use port numbers below 1024 on Mac OS X machines,
you’ll need your Mac OS X administrator name and password. See
appendix C, “Enabling the FileMaker Pro Web Companion in
Mac OS X.”
10. Click OK to close the Web Companion Configuration dialog box.
11. Click OK again to close the Application Preferences dialog box.
Sharing the database via the Web
Each database that you’re publishing on the Web must be open and
shared via the Web Companion.
To share a database on the Web:
1. In FileMaker Pro, choose File menu > Open and open the database.
2. Choose File menu > Sharing.
3. Select the Web Companion checkbox.
If the Web Companion option is unavailable (dimmed), you need to
enable the Web Companion. See “Enabling the Web Companion” on
page 3-3.
4. If you’re using Instant Web Publishing for this database, click Set
Up Views and choose a web style and layouts for each view (instant
web page).
5. Click Done to close the Web Companion View Setup dialog box.
6. Click OK to close the File Sharing dialog box.
Creating a custom home page
You can set the Web Companion to open a custom home page by
default rather than the built-in home page (the FileMaker Pro Instant
Web Publishing home page) — whether you’re using Instant Web
Publishing or custom web publishing with CDML or XML.
For Instant Web Publishing, choose a web style
and layouts for each view (instant web page)