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
Preface
Introducing FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited
FileMaker
®
Pro 5.5 Unlimited is a companion product to
FileMaker Pro 5.5 that allows unlimited web user access to your
FileMaker databases via the Web Companion plug-in.
In addition, the FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited product includes the
following features:
1 The FileMaker Web Server Connector that allows you to combine
the web serving features of the FileMaker Pro Web Companion with
the features of these web servers: Microsoft Internet Information
Server 4.0 and Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.0, Apache on
Mac OS X Server, and Apache on Red Hat
®
Linux 7.1.
1 FileMaker Pro custom web publishing tools and example files to
help you publish your database on custom web pages using CDML,
XML, or a Java applet.
Note For deploying your custom database solutions over a network,
the FileMaker, Inc. product line also includes FileMaker Server.
FileMaker Server provides multi-protocol support for TCP/IP,
IPX/SPX, and AppleTalk networks for serving up to 125 hosted files
simultaneously to FileMaker Pro guests on Windows 2000,
Windows NT, Mac OS 8.6 to 9.1, Mac OS X, and Red Hat Linux
platforms.
About this guide
This Administrator’s Guide provides instructions and examples for
using FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited.
1 This preface describes the contents of the FileMaker Pro 5.5
Unlimited CDs.
1 Chapter 1 describes how to install the Web Server Connector on
the Microsoft Internet Information Server, Apache on Mac OS X
Server, and Apache on Red Hat Linux web servers.
1 Chapter 2 provides information on configuring the administration
account and administering the Web Server Connector from your web
browser.
1 Chapter 3 gives information on setting up and using the Web
Companion for creating custom web pages.
1 Chapters 4 and 5 and appendixes A and B describe the use of the
FileMaker Pro Web Companion for custom web publishing using
XML or CDML.
1 Chapter 6 describes how to use the FileMaker JDBC Driver to
create FileMaker Pro database-aware Java applications and applets.
It also includes a section on using the proprietary FileMaker Java
Class Library.
1 Appendix C describes how to enable the Web Server Connector in
Mac OS X Server.
For information on installing and configuring Internet Information
Server on Windows 2000 Server, Apache on Mac OS X Server, or
Apache on Red Hat Linux, see the documentation provided with your
web server software.
For information on authoring and using XML, creating Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS) or Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
stylesheets, and authoring web pages in Dynamic HTML (including
scripting such as JavaScript), see the documentation that came with
your authoring tool.