Administrator’s Guide

iv FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited Administrator’s Guide
Creating a custom home page for Instant Web Publishing
3-6
About the FileMaker WebPortal object
3-7
Overview of setting up a custom home page for
Instant Web Publishing
3-7
Creating a custom web site using a database layout
3-8
Overview of using a database layout as the
Instant Web Publishing home page
3-8
Using script buttons in Instant Web Publishing
3-9
Suppressing the Instant Web Publishing interface
3-11
Bypassing the Instant Web Publishing home page
3-12
Format filenames for instant web pages
3-13
Web Companion support for Internet media types
3-13
Monitoring your site
3-14
Using the access.log file
3-14
Using the error.log file
3-15
Using the info.log file
3-15
Using the Web Companion external functions
3-15
Exporting data to a static HTML page
3-16
Testing your site without a network connection
3-18
Opening password-protected databases remotely
3-18
Opening and closing databases using XML
3-19
Opening and closing databases using CDML
3-19
Chapter 4
Custom web publishing using CDML
About the CDML examples
4-1
General steps for custom web publishing using CDML
4-2
About CDML format files
4-2
Generating FileMaker Pro CGI requests using CDML
4-3
Request names
4-4
Requests for adding records to a portal
4-4
Requests for editing multiple records in a portal
4-4
Using the CDML Tool and templates
4-5
Using the Templates tab
4-6
Using the Tags tab
4-6
Customizing a format file template
4-7
Categories of CDML tags
4-8
Modified CDML tags
4-9
CDML tags new to FileMaker Pro 5
4-9
Modified CDML tags
4-10
Using an intratag parameter
4-11
About the CDML Reference database
4-11
Creating error messages
4-13
Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag
4-14
Planning your web site
4-14
Looking at the three CDML examples
4-15
Employee Database example
4-15
Guest Book example
4-16
Shopping Cart example
4-17
Chapter 5
Using FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data
About the XML examples
5-1
General process for custom web publishing using XML
5-2
Generating an XML document
5-2
About XML namespaces
5-3
About FileMaker Pro database error codes
5-3
Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar
5-3
Description of elements in the FMPDSORESULT
grammar
5-4
Example of XML data in the FMPDSORESULT
grammar
5-4
Using the FileMaker Pro Extended XML grammars
5-5
Description of elements in the FMPXMLRESULT
grammar
5-5
Example of XML data in the FMPXMLRESULT
grammar
5-6
Description of elements in the FMPXMLLAYOUT
grammar
5-7