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 3-7
The built-in home page for Instant Web Publishing displays a list of
all the open FileMaker Pro databases that are shared via the Web
Companion. Each database in the list is linked to a FileMaker CGI
request for displaying the database records in different views (instant
web pages), such as Form View.
About the FileMaker WebPortal object
With the enhanced Web Companion in FileMaker Pro 5.5 and
FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited, you can now access the elements of the
Instant Web Publishing home page (such as database names or the URL
to access a Form View of a database) as separate JavaScript objects and
extract data from them to build your own custom home page.
To access elements of the Instant Web Publishing home page, you
need the following FileMaker CGI request:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="FMPro?-webportal">
</SCRIPT>
Note If you are using a Netscape web browser, you must specify
JavaScript 1.4.
This HTML statement places the JavaScript object called WebPortal
inside a window object in your web page. The window.webPortal
object contains the following subobjects:
webPortal.databases = Array of <databaseObject>
webPortal.userName = Name of current FileMaker Pro user
Each <databaseObject> in the array contains the following:
Note A URL for the default Form View for a database can be used
with FileMaker WebPortal objects.
A Custom Web Portal example is included in the Custom
Workgroup Portal folder on the FMWSC and Tools CD.
Overview of setting up a custom home page for Instant
Web Publishing
To create a custom home page using JavaScript:
1. Create an HTML file for your web page using a text editor or
HTML editing program.
Example of the built-in Instant Web Publishing home page
Databases
shared by the
Web
Companion
databaseName The string displayed for the link in the Instant Web
Publishing home page
defaultURL The default URL for opening the database in the browser
based on settings made in the Web Companion View
Setup dialog box or the Document Preferences dialog box
formViewURL The URL for opening the database in the Form View
instant web page
tableViewURL The URL for opening the database in the Table View
instant web page
searchViewURL The URL for opening the database in the Search View
instant web page
newViewURL The URL for opening the database in the New Record
View instant web page