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 following FileMaker Pro-specific extensions have been added:
The following classes have been added in support of the
FileMaker Pro extensions:
The API documentation for these standard interfaces and the
FileMaker extensions is included in HTML format on the FMWSC
and Tools CD:
FMWSC and Tools > JDBC and Java > JDBC > FileMaker JDBC Driver >
Documentation
Example 1: Looking at the FileMaker Pro
Explorer application
This developer-tool-independent example is a Java application used
for displaying FileMaker Pro database information, similar to the
Windows Explorer and Mac OS Finder applications. You can use the
FileMaker Pro Explorer application along with the FileMaker JDBC
Driver to view any open database on any computer that’s shared via
the Web Companion, by specifying the JDBC URL that includes the
IP address of the computer where FileMaker Pro is running. You can
view the application’s source code in any text editor or Java editing
tool.
The application was created using the basic Java classes to display a
database tree, and FileMaker Pro-specific extensions have been
added to provide detailed information about the fields and layouts.
The user interface was created using the Swing 1.1.1 class library—
an add-on to the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1.8.
For information on the Swing class library, go to the Sun
Microsystems web site at www.javasoft.com.
Setup requirements
Included with the example is the swingall.jar file, on the FMWSC
and Tools CD.
FMWSC and Tools > JDBC and Java > JDBC > FileMaker JDBC Driver >
Examples > FileMaker Explorer > swingall.jar
To view the example on Windows machines, you need:
1 Java.exe (included with JDK 1.1.8 for Windows) or equivalent
Java virtual machine installed in the system path on your computer
To view the example on Mac OS machines, you need:
1 MRJ 2.2 or equivalent Java virtual machine installed on your
computer
This JDBC interface Includes this FileMaker Pro extension
java.sql.DatabaseMetaData com.fmi.jdbc.DatabaseMetaDataExt
java.sql.ResultSetMetaData com.fmi.jdbc.ResultSetMetaDataExt
Class name Description
com.fmi.fmpdb.FMPError FileMaker Pro error codes
com.fmi.fmpdb.FMPLayoutField Information associated with a
field on a layout
com.fmi.fmpdb.FMPLayoutFieldEnumerator Class for enumerating the
fields on a layout
com.fmi.fmpdb.FMPLayoutMetaData Metadata for a given layout
com.fmi.jdbc.Array Class used to represent
repeating and related fields