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
Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data 6-9
Install the example and the FileMaker JDBC Driver
If necessary, install the FileMaker Explorer example and the
FileMaker JDBC Driver.
FMWSC and Tools > FileMaker JDBC Driver > JDBC Examples >
FileMaker Explorer
FMWSC and Tools > FileMaker JDBC Driver > Fmpjdbc12.jar
Open and share your databases via the Web
1. In FileMaker Pro, open any FileMaker Pro database, such as the
Inventory.fp5 database located in the JBuilder example folder:
FMWSC and Tools > FileMaker JDBC Driver > JDBC Examples > JBuilder
3.0 Professional > Inventory.fp5
2. Choose File menu > Sharing, verify that Web Companion is selected,
and click OK to share the database on the Web.
For information about setting up the Web Companion so that it’s
already selected in this dialog box, see “Enabling the Web
Companion” on page 3-3.
Run the FileMaker Pro Explorer application
The FileMaker Pro Explorer application is located in the FileMaker
Explorer folder:
FMWSC and Tools > FileMaker JDBC Driver > Examples > FileMaker
Explorer > FileMakerExplorer.bat
FMWSC and Tools > FileMaker JDBC Driver > Examples > FileMaker
Explorer > FileMakerExplorer
1. Start the FileMaker Pro Explorer application by doing one of the
following:
1 Windows: Choose Start menu > Run and locate and select the
FileMakerExplorer.bat file. Then, add the location of the JDK for
running the application at the end of the command line:
“full path\FileMakerExplorer.bat” c:\jdk1.1.8
1 Mac OS X: Double-click the application icon to start
FileMaker Pro Explorer.
2. Click the root node of the tree in the left side of the FileMaker Pro
Explorer window to select it, and replace the entire text with the
JDBC URL for the computer that is running the database, for
example, type jdbc:fmpro:http://localhost/. Then press
Enter.
See “Using a JDBC URL to connect to your database” on page 6-2
for information.
3. Select Inventory.fp5 (or other database name) on the left side of the
window to see information about it on the right side.
4. Expand the Inventory.fp5 node (folder) to expose the Layouts and
Scripts nodes.
Replace entire text
with the JDBC URL
for the computer
running the
database