Instant Web Publishing Guide

6 FileMaker Instant Web Publishing Guide
About this guide
This guide provides information about the Instant Web Publishing and static web publishing
features in FileMaker Pro.
It explains:
1 what you need to publish databases on the web
1 how to publish your databases using FileMaker Pro Instant Web Publishing
1 what web users need to access databases
1 how web users can access and interact with your database on the Internet or an intranet
FileMaker Pro documentation uses the term publishing on the web to refer to databases that users
can access on the Internet or on an intranet using a web browser.
This guide uses “FileMaker Pro” to refer to both FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Developer, unless
describing specific FileMaker Developer features.
Important You can download PDFs of FileMaker 7 documentation from www.filemaker.com/
downloads. Any updates to this document are also available from the website.
Web publishing requirements
To publish databases using Instant Web Publishing you need:
1 a Windows- or Mac OS-based computer running FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Server Advanced,
enabled for Instant Web Publishing
Note Instant Web Publishing is not supported in the basic FileMaker Server product.
1 a ccess to the Internet or an intranet
1 one or more open FileMaker Pro databases
Data from a FileMaker layout displayed in a
web browser with Instant Web Publishing
Data displayed in a FileMaker Pro layout