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 3-11
Note When you use the Go to Related Record script step with Instant
Web Publishing, the sort order of the related database is based on the
Sort View settings in the Web Companion View Setup dialog box
(not on the sort order specified by the relationship). The found set of
records is determined by the relationship — only related records are
in the current found set when the script is performed.
Support for scripts with multiple script steps
The Web Companion supports 1 to 3 script steps in a script button
used for Instant Web Publishing. (Any steps after 3 valid script steps
are ignored.) The script must include a change of mode, layout, or
current record. The script may also include the submission of a form
containing either a -find request or an edited record. The following
script steps can be used in multi-step scripts:
Go to Record
Go to Layout
Go to Field
Sort
Enter Find Mode
Enter Browse Mode
New Record
Show All Records
Exit Record
Perform Find
If the first script step in the script is not one of these supported script
steps, then it is handled as a single script step. If it is not supported
for Instant Web Publishing, then the script is not generated for the
button. If a script contains both supported and unsupported steps,
then parsing of the script will cease as soon as the first unsupported
step is encountered.
Suppressing the Instant Web Publishing interface
You can use a startup script to suppress the automatic page layouts
and navigation controls of Instant Web Publishing in the browser.
When web users click a link on the Instant Web Publishing home
page, your database layout appears instead of the built-in layout of
the instant web page. (To display a database layout instead of the
Instant Web Publishing home page, see “Bypassing the Instant Web
Publishing home page” on page 3-12.)
When you hide the Instant Web Publishing interface, you must
specify one of the following web styles that use cascading style
sheets:
1 Soft Gray
1 Lavender
1 Wheat
1 Blue and Gold 1
The other web styles don’t work with hiding the Instant Web
Publishing interface. For information about web styles, see
“Choosing a web style” in chapter 14 of the FileMaker Pro User’s
Guide or see FileMaker Pro Help.
View As [Cycle] Cycle between Form
and Table views
Open Help Open HTML help This opens the built-in
help for Instant Web
Publishing, called
“FileMaker Pro Web
Companion Help” in a
new browser window.
FileMaker script step CGI request Description