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 3-13
For example, the following redirect statement contains a FileMaker
CGI request for layout ID number 3 in the “MyCustomUI.fp5”
database to open in the Form View instant web page
(formvwcss.htm).
<HTML>
<BODY>
<SCRIPT Language="JavaScript">
window.location ="/FMRes/FMPJS?-db=MyCustomUI.fp5&
-layID=3&-token=25&-max=1&-format=formvwcss.htm&
-mode=browse&-findall"
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
Note In the Internet Explorer 4.5 for Mac OS browser window, you
must allocate at least 6 MB of memory to the web browser in order
to display the database layout.
Here’s another example of a redirect statement that displays the
database layout in the browser window.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “–//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html1401-19991224/loose.dtd”>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”Refresh” Content=”0; URL=/FMRes/FMPJS?
–db=MyCustomUI.fp5&–layID=3&-token=25&-max=1&
-format=formvwcss.htm&-mode=browse&-findall”>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Note Layout ID numbers are determined by the original creation
order of all the layouts created for the database.
Format filenames for instant web pages
The following table lists the instant web pages and their format
filenames as they apply to those web styles that use cascading style
sheets.
Note When you suppress the Instant Web Publishing controls, your
users will be completely dependent on your buttons and scripts to
manage your database solutions in a browser. You can simulate a
“home” link by creating a button to perform a script composed of the
single step,
Open URL [No dialog, “http:/”]. (Note there is only one “/”
after “http:”.) This statement can’t be attached directly to the button
itself, but must be included in a script performed by the button.
Web Companion support for Internet
media types
The Web Companion supports current MIME (Multipurpose
Internet Mail Extensions) types registered for the Internet. The Web
Companion can now serve other types of media files besides HTML
to the web browser with the correct MIME type.
Instant web page Format filename
Form View FormVwCSS.htm
Table View TableVwCSS.htm
Search SearchCSS.htm
New Record NewCSS.htm
Edit Record EditCSS.htm
Delete Record DeleteCSS.htm
Sort SortCSS.htm
Error Err.htm