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
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The People.fp5 database contains seven fields — three text fields for
data, three global fields for field labels, and one container field for
pictures.
These three examples were designed to be viewed in the Internet
Explorer 5.0 for Windows web browser. For information on new
browsers that can be used to view the examples, double-click
FileMaker on Web (included on the FMWSC and Tools CD) to go to
the FileMaker product support pages in your browser.
To view the examples:
1. Place a copy of the Simple Examples folder and its files in the Web
folder inside the FileMaker Pro 5.5 application folder on your hard
disk.
FileMaker Pro 5.5 > Web > Simple Examples
Note For security, when actually publishing a database on the Web,
you should not keep the database file in the Web folder unless you
plan to administer it remotely. See “Opening password-protected
databases remotely” on page 3-18 for more information.
2. In FileMaker Pro, open the People.fp5 database and make sure it’s
shared via the Web Companion.
See “Enabling the Web Companion” on page 3-3 and “Sharing the
database via the Web” on page 3-5 for information.
3. In your web browser, type localhost (or your computer’s IP
address) followed by /simple examples/ and press Enter.
http://localhost/simple examples/
http://17.17.17.17/simple examples/
For information on setting up your computer as the localhost, see
“Testing your site without a network connection” on page 3-18.
The seven fields in the People.fp5 database
used for these examples