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 3-15
Using the error.log file
The error.log file, stored in the root level of the folder containing the
database, is generated by the Web Companion whenever any unusual
errors have occurred. Common errors reported to the web user, such
as “Database not open,” are not recorded in the error.log file.
[08/Jun/1999:16:16:01:53 –0800] Web Security database not open.
Security disabled.
[12/Jul/1999:06:07:02 –0800] ERROR: 6. Could not find email format file.
[23/Jul/1999:11:12:38 –0800] ERROR: 12: Badly formatted URL.
Using the info.log file
The info.log file, stored in the root level of the folder for the
database, contains entries generated by the [FMP-Log] CDML
replacement tag. Whenever web users access FileMaker Pro from
your custom CDML web page, information you’ve included within
a [FMP-Log] tag is recorded by the Web Companion in the info.log
file.
For information about the CDML replacement tags, see chapter 4,
“Custom web publishing using CDML.”
Using the Web Companion external functions
You can use the FileMaker Pro Web Companion external functions
with your calculations or scripts to:
1 check the version of the Web Companion
1 capture information about visitors to your database
1 translate information in your database to HTML or HTTP
To use a Web Companion external function in a calculation field:
1. Be sure the Web Companion is enabled. (See “Enabling the Web
Companion” on page 3-3 for information.)
2. Choose File menu > Define Fields.
3. Type a name for the new calculation field in the Field Name box.
4. For Type, select Calculation, and click Create.
5. In the Specify Calculation dialog box, choose External Functions
from the View pop-up menu.
6. Double-click one of the external functions in the list that begins
with the function prefix “Web-” to add it to the formula box.
“request” The request line exactly as it came from the client
status The HTTP status code returned to the client (for information,
see the World Wide Web Consortium’s web site at
www.w3c.org)
bytes The content length of the document transferred to the client
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