Development Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introducing FileMaker Pro Advanced
- Chapter 2 Creating database solutions
- Chapter 3 Customizing database solutions
- Chapter 4 Debugging, analyzing, and optimizing files
- Chapter 5 Developing third-party FileMaker plug-ins
- About external functions
- About the example plug-in
- Installing, enabling, and configuring the example plug-in
- Description of the FMExample plug-in’s external functions
- Using the example plug-in
- Customizing the plug-in example
- Requirements for writing external function plug-ins
- FileMaker messages sent to the plug-in
- Avoiding potential Mac OS X resource conflicts
- Providing documentation for your plug-in
- Appendix A Feature comparison of the runtime application with FileMaker Pro
- Index
30 FileMaker Pro Advanced Development Guide
Using the Database Design Report
Use the Database Design Report (DDR) feature to document the
schema of your database and publish it to an HTML or XML file. You
can choose which elements and database tables in the database you
want to report. The HTML version of the report is hyperlinked and
you can view or print it in a Javascript-enabled web browser.
With the Database Design Report feature you can:
1 examine a textual representation of your database schema
1 gather statistics on the structure of your database
1 use the information in the report to recreate the structure of your
database if you lose the original database files
1 troubleshoot missing references, broken relationships,
calculations, and more
To create a Database Design Report:
1. Open all database files for which you want to produce a
Database
Design Report.
You must have full access privileges for any file for which you want
to produce a Database Design Report and the file must be open in
FileMaker Pro Advanced. You can run a Database Design Report on
local or remote files.
2. Choose Tools menu > Database Design Report.
3. In the Available Files list, clear any files that you want to exclude
from the report by clearing the checkbox associated with the file.
4. If there are any files that contain tables that you want to exclude
from the report, select the file in the Available Files list.
The tables in the file appear in the Include fields from tables in selected
file list. You can then deselect any table in the list.
By default, all tables in all selected files are reported.
5. Clear elements that you want to exclude from the report.
By default, all elements in all selected files are reported. Each selected
element, if present, will be reported on for each selected file.
6. If you prefer to publish the report in XML format instead of the
default HTML, select XML in the Report Format section.
7. If you do not want the report to automatically open when done,
clear the checkbox for this option in the File Handling section.
8. Click Create.
For more information about using the Database Design Report, see Help.