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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You only need the Toggle Status Area [Hide] script step in your
startup script to hide the Instant Web Publishing interface. In
addition, you can combine the Toggle Status Area [Hide] script step
with one of the following script steps in the startup script:
1 Enter Browse Mode: Form View
1 Enter Find Mode: Search page
1 New Record: New Record View
1 View As [View as Table]: Table View
The Freeze Window, Set User Capture, and Refresh Window script
steps can appear before the supported steps, but they will be ignored.
To hide the Instant Web Publishing interface:
1. Choose Scripts > ScriptMaker and type a name for the new script in
the Script Name text box. Then click Create.
2. In the Script Definition dialog box, click Clear All, and select Toggle
Status Area. Choose Hide from the Specify pop-up menu to add the
parameter to the script step. Then click OK.
3. Click Done to close the Define Scripts dialog box.
4. Choose Edit > Preferences > Document.
5. In the Document Preferences dialog box, select the checkbox for
Perform script when opening the database, and choose the script you
named in step 1 from the pop-up menu.
6. Click OK.
For more information, see “Defining scripts” in chapter 10 and
“Setting document preferences” in appendix A of the FileMaker Pro
User’s Guide or see FileMaker Pro Help.
Bypassing the Instant Web Publishing home page
You can bypass the built-in Instant Web Publishing home page so
that the database layout you’ve created appears as the default home
page in the web browser. You do this by writing a redirect statement
in an HTML file that includes a FileMaker CGI request and then
designating the file as the default home page in FileMaker Pro.
For the FileMaker CGI request, you’ll need to know the URL of the
view (instant web page) that you want the database layout to appear
in. You can get this from the browser window by displaying the
database in the Instant Web Publishing home page and moving the
cursor over the link or clicking the link to go to the view.
To bypass the Instant Web Publishing home page:
1. Create an HTML file that contains a redirect statement to your
database layout.
2. Save the HTML file with the .htm or .html extension and place it
in the Web folder.
3. In the Web Companion Configuration dialog box, specify the
HTML file to be the default home page. (See “Setting Web
Companion configuration options” on page 3-3.)
Example of a web page before and after the
Instant Web Publishing interface is hidden