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 4-9
Modified CDML tags
The FileMaker Pro 5 Web Companion supported the following new
or modified CDML tags. Example syntax for these tags is described
in the CDML Reference database (see “About the CDML Reference
database” on page 4-11 for information).
Note The –fmtfield, –mailfmtfield, and –errorfmtfield variable tags
have been disabled and are no longer available for use because of the
security risk they posed for databases published on the Web.
CDML tags new to FileMaker Pro 5
Hidden Do not display this INPUT tag (–db, –lay,
–db & –lay, –error, –format, or –token)
Links Display a format file based on CDML replacement or
action tags within HREF, MAILTO, and SRC (image)
links
Logical Conditionally display data within the [FMP-If] and
[FMP-Else] replacement tags
Looping Display multiple lines of data within one of these looping
types of replacement tags (Current Find, Current Sort,
Layout Fields, Portal, Record, Repeating Fields, Value
List, or Value Names)
Names Only Display a list of database, field, layout, script, or value list
names from any open database
Replacement Display specific data from the database in one of 44 types
of replacement tags on the web page. For example,
display the web user’s IP address in the [FMP-ClientIP]
replacement tag.
Variables (Add) Generate information from the client (web user’s)
computer based on one of eight replacement tags
received as parameters to a request in the FileMaker Pro
CGI command: [FMP-ClientAddress], [FMP-ClientIP],
[FMP-ClientType], [FMP-ClientUserName], [FMP-
CurrentDate], [FMP-CurrentTime],[FMP-CurrentDay],
and [FMP-CurrentToken]
Variables (Display) Display information in one of 21 replacement tags that
correspond to a specific request parameter. For example,
display the maximum number of records in the [FMP-
MaxRecords] replacement tag as specified by the –max
request parameter (CDML variable tag).
Use tags in
this category
For this type of interaction
with FileMaker Pro
New CDML
action tags Description
–dbopen
(action)
Open a database that’s located in the Web folder.
Required parameters: -db, and -format variable tags
Optional parameter: -password
(Remote administration privileges must be set in the Web
Companion Configuration dialog box.)
See “Opening password-protected databases remotely”
on page 3-18 for more information.
–dbclose
(action)
Close a database that’s open in the Web folder or in a site
folder within the Web folder.
Required parameters: -db, and -format variable tags
(Remote administration privileges must be set in the Web
Companion Configuration dialog box.)
See “Opening password-protected databases remotely”
on page 3-18 for more information.