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
3-8 FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited Administrator’s Guide
2. Include a FileMaker CGI request for the FileMaker WebPortal
object:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="FMPro?-webportal">
</SCRIPT>
3. As desired, use scripting to write HTML and text to the document.
4. Save the file with the .htm or .html filename extension and place it
in the root level of the Web folder (inside the FileMaker Pro 5.5
folder).
5. In the Web Companion Configuration dialog box, select Enable
Instant Web Publishing, choose your custom web page from the Home
Page list, and click OK.
Note Instant Web Publishing is not supported under the Web Server
Connector in FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited.
Creating a custom web site using a
database layout
With new features in FileMaker Pro 5.5 and FileMaker Pro 5.5
Unlimited, you can now design your own page layouts for Instant
Web Publishing in Layout mode, and then display the layouts in the
web browser.
First, you create a startup script to hide the Instant Web Publishing
interface. Then you create buttons in the layouts to navigate the web
site and perform database functions. To bypass the Instant Web
Publishing home page, you use a custom home page that contains a
redirect statement for opening the database layout in a particular
instant web page.
Overview of using a database layout as the Instant Web
Publishing home page
To create a custom home page that uses a database layout for the
interface:
1. In Layout mode in FileMaker Pro, design the layout for your
custom home page. Create script buttons for every type of interaction
you want the web user to be able to do on this page. (See “Using
script buttons in Instant Web Publishing” on page 3-9.)
2. Create a startup script that hides the Instant Web Publishing
interface. (See “Suppressing the Instant Web Publishing interface”
on page 3-11.)
3. Enable the Web Companion and configure it for Instant Web
Publishing.
4. Set up file sharing for the database through the Web Companion
(see “Sharing the database via the Web” on page 3-5), and click Set
Up Views in the File Sharing dialog box.
5. In the Web Companion View Setup dialog box, choose either Soft
Gray, Lavender, Wheat, or Blue and Gold 1 for the web style. Then
specify the layout you want used for each view (instant web page).
6. Choose Edit > Preferences > Document and set up FileMaker Pro to
switch to the layout you created in step 1 and perform the startup
script you created in step 2 when the database opens.
When the database is opened in the web browser, the layout that you
select for the Switch to Layout option in the Document Preferences
dialog box overrides all layouts selected in the Web Companion
View Setup dialog box for file sharing.
7. Create a web page with a redirect statement that bypasses the built-
in Instant Web Publishing home page and displays your custom
layout in the browser. (See “Bypassing the Instant Web Publishing
home page” on page 3-12.)
8. Configure the Web Companion to open the web page as the default
home page. (See “Specifying a custom home page as the default” on
page 3-6.)