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 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 Pro Advanced, unless
describing specific FileMaker Pro
Advanced features.
Important You can download PDFs of FileMaker 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
Important You cannot enable Instant Web Publishing in FileMaker Pro if FileMaker Server or FileMaker
Server Advanced is also installed on the same computer.
Note Instant Web Publishing is not supported in the basic FileMaker Server product.
1 access to the Internet or an intranet
Data displayed in a FileMaker Pro layout
Data from a FileMaker layout displayed in a
web browser with Instant Web Publishing