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
Custom web publishing using CDML 4-5
The following is an example of an –edit request for editing records
in a portal, where “Address::” is the name of the relationship,
“City.1” is the first row in the portal, and “City.2” is the second row
in the portal:
FMPro?–db=Employees.fp5&–lay=LayoutOne&recid=11&
FirstName=Sam&LastName=Smith&Address::City.1=Seattle
&Address::City.2=New York&–format=reply.htm&–edit
The following is an example of another–edit request for editing
records in a portal, in an HTML form:
<FORM ACTION="FMPro" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="-db"
VALUE="Employees.fp5">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="-lay" VALUE="LayoutOne">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="-format" VALUE="reply.htm">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="-recid" VALUE="11">
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="FirstName" VALUE="Sam">
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="LastName" VALUE="Smith">
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Address::City.1"
VALUE="Seattle">
<INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Address::City.2" VALUE="New
York">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="-edit" VALUE="Edit Record">
</FORM>
To display records in a portal on your web page, you use a [FMP-
Portal] replacement tag in the format file. For information, see the
CDML Reference database (described in “About the CDML
Reference database” on page 4-11). For an example of displaying
portals in a web page, see the Shopping Cart example (described in
“Shopping Cart example” on page 4-17.)
Using the CDML Tool and templates
The CDML Tool is a special FileMaker Pro database that you can
use with any open database and your HTML authoring program to
copy and paste tags into your format files. It also includes HTML
templates for the main types of format files and comments for how
to use them.
Your databases must be open and shared via the Web Companion.
For information, see “Enabling the Web Companion” on page 3-3
and “Sharing the database via the Web” on page 3-5.
When you specify the name of an open database in the CDML Tool,
the database’s layout, field, and value list names will automatically
appear in pop-up menus for you to choose from. Other database-
specific information will appear as appropriate within the CDML
tags.
To use the CDML Tool:
1. Open the CDML_Tool.fp5 database located in the CDML folder.
FMWSC and Tools > CDML > Web Tools > CDML Tool.fp5
2. Open the database that you’re planning to publish on the Web.
3. In a text editor or HTML authoring program, create a blank page.
Click to update list options
for the selected database
The Templates tab in the CDML Tool