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
Chapter 4
Custom web publishing using CDML
The FileMaker Pro Web Companion supports CDML, a proprietary
markup language that enables your HTML pages to interact with a
FileMaker Pro database.
The FMWSC and Tools CD includes:
1 the CDML Tool database and template files to help you insert the
CDML tags into your HTML pages (These HTML pages that contain
CDML tags are referred to as format files.)
1 the CDML Reference database, which describes each CDML tag
and how it’s used in a format file
1 example web sites that publish databases dynamically on the Web
using CDML
If you’re experienced using CDML, see “Modified CDML tags” on
page 4-9 for information about changes to CDML in
FileMaker Pro 5.5 and FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited.
Tip You can also publish your FileMaker Pro databases on the Web
using open standard XML or via Java applets that use the FileMaker
JDBC Driver. See chapter 5, “Using FileMaker Pro XML to deliver
your data” and chapter 6, “Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data.”
About the CDML examples
FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited provides three examples of databases
published on the Web using CDML. The Guest Book example
demonstrates how web users can add records to your database by
“signing” in a guest book. The Employee Database example is a web
site that lets users search the Employees.fp5 database and make
modifications to it. The Shopping Cart example lets web users select
items from a database and add them to a “shopping cart” for
purchase. For information about these CDML examples, see
“Planning your web site” on page 4-14.
Home page of the Guest Book example