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
Introducing FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited vii
Unsupported folder
XML folder
Registration and customer support
Please complete and mail the registration card for your FileMaker
product, or register online at www.filemaker.com/register. In
FileMaker Pro, you can choose Help menu > FileMaker on the Web for
a link to the FileMaker, Inc. support pages and the online registration
form.
For information about technical support and customer service, see:
www.filemaker.com (North American customers)
www.filemaker.com/intl (customers outside of North America)
At the web site you will find the FileMaker, Inc. Service Directory,
which provides the service options available to North American
customers, links to FileMaker, Inc. international sites, answers to
frequently asked questions, and access to extensive software
libraries used by technical support staff.
If you do not have access to the Web, please refer to the Technical
Support and Customer Service sheet included in the software box.
North American customers can also call 1-800-965-9090 to learn
about the service options available.
fmpjdbc12.jar The FileMaker JDBC driver
Read Me.doc JDBC read me file
Contents of the
Unsupported folder Description
FMWSC.jar The FileMaker Web Server Connector servlet
FMWSCResources.jar Strings and supporting HTML pages for the Web
Server Connector servlet
Readme.txt Text file containing instructions for recompiling the
.jar file for newer versions of Apache
Contents of the
XML folder Description
Documentation Folder containing the XML Document Type Definitions
(DTDs) for the FileMaker XML grammars:
fmpdsoresult_dtd.htm
fmpxmllayout_dtd.htm
fmpxmlresult_dtd.htm
Inventory Example Example of the inventory.fp5 database published on the
Web using XML, the W3C DOM, and JavaScript
Files include : inventory.fp5, default.htm,
detail_view.htm, add_record.htm, find.htm, Filemaker.gif
and FMP.js (JavaScript library for the example)
For information on this example, see chapter 5, “Using
FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data.”
Contents of the
FileMaker JDBC
Driver folder Description
Simple Examples Three examples of the People.fp5 database published on
the Web using XML with CSS, XSL, and JavaScript
Files include: default.htm, Filemaker.gif, FMP.js,
people.fp5, people_form.css, people_form.xsl, and
people_form.htm.
For information about these examples, see chapter 5,
“Using FileMaker Pro XML to deliver your data.”
Contents of the
XML folder Description