Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface Using the FileMakerServer documentation
- Chapter 1 Welcome to FileMakerServer 5
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMakerServer in Windows
- What you need
- Installing FileMakerServer
- Where files are stored on your hard disk
- Starting FileMakerServer (WindowsNT)
- Starting FileMakerServer (Windows2000)
- Stopping FileMakerServer (WindowsNT)
- Stopping FileMakerServer (Windows2000)
- Installing the Server Administration plug-in on a remote computer running Windows
- Enabling the Server Administration plug-in using FileMakerPro (Windows)
- Uninstalling FileMakerServer (Windows)
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMakerServer in the MacOS
- What you need
- Installing FileMakerServer
- Adjusting memory (MacOS)
- Where files are stored on your hard disk
- Starting FileMakerServer (MacOS)
- Quitting FileMakerServer (Mac OS)
- Installing the Server Administration plug-in on a remote computer running the MacOS
- Enabling the Server Administration plug-in using FileMaker Pro (MacOS)
- Chapter 4 Configuring FileMakerServer
- Using the configuration assistants (Windows)
- Opening the Properties dialog box (Windows)
- Opening the Preferences dialog box (MacOS)
- Setting the number of guests
- Allowing disconnection of idle guests
- Setting the maximum number of files
- Changing the amount of memory used by FileMakerServer
- Setting how often the cache is flushed
- Allowing single user files to be hosted
- Opening runtime solutions automatically (Windows)
- Opening runtime solutions automatically (Mac OS)
- Enabling remote administration
- Specifying a custom host name
- Maximizing performance (MacOS)
- Choosing network protocols
- Setting the preferred IP address
- Recording usage statistics and settingsizelimits
- Setting a size limit for the application log (WindowsNT)
- Setting a size limit for the application log (Windows2000)
- Setting a size limit for the Server Event Log (MacOS)
- Protecting files with a password
- How FileMakerServer behaves during system sleep
- Chapter 5 Administering FileMakerServer
- Administering FileMakerServer remotely
- Opening the Remote Administration window
- Listing hosted files and current guests remotely
- Viewing usage statistics for FileMakerServer remotely
- Hosting FileMakerPro5 files remotely
- Closing hosted files remotely
- Disconnecting guests remotely
- Viewing detailed information about hosted files and guests remotely
- Sending messages to guests remotely
- Sending messages to all guests remotely
- Administering FileMakerServer locally
- Monitoring performance locally (WindowsNT)
- Monitoring performance locally (Windows2000)
- Opening the local administration window (MacOS)
- Listing hosted files and guests locally (MacOS)
- Viewing usage statistics locally (MacOS)
- Hosting FileMaker Pro 5 files locally (MacOS)
- Closing hosted files locally (MacOS)
- Disconnecting guests locally (MacOS)
- Sending messages to guests locally (MacOS)
- Using reported events to track activities
- Recalculating the Today function inhosteddatabases
- Administering FileMakerServer remotely
- Chapter 6 Scheduling administrative tasks with FileMakerServer
- Scheduling tasks to run automatically (Windows)
- Scheduling tasks to run automatically (MacOS)
- Viewing scheduled tasks in the Schedules list (Windows)
- Viewing scheduled tasks in the Schedules window (MacOS)
- Running scheduled tasks manually
- Changing scheduled tasks
- Duplicating scheduled tasks
- Deleting scheduled tasks
- Enabling and disabling scheduled tasks
- Using the command line to automate tasks (Windows)
- Using an AppleScript to automate tasks (MacOS)
- Making sure you don’t run out of disk space
- Appendix A Technical specifications and optimization
- Appendix B Performance and usage tips
- Appendix C Event log messages and troubleshooting
- Appendix D About the TechInfo database
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3. Double-click an entry to display a list of topic choices (Windows)
or the topic itself.
Finding a topic using specific words
You can specify your own significant word or combination of words
to search for within all of the Help topics. FileMaker Server Help
will display a list of all topics containing the word(s) you specify and
the total number of topics found. To narrow the search, you can
specify a combination of words. For example, you can search for all
topics containing both the word “performance” and the word
“statistics.”
To find a topic based on a specific word or group of words:
1. Windows: In the FileMaker Server console, choose Action menu >
Help, click Help Topics, then click the Find tab.
The first time you click Find in FileMaker Server Help, the Find
Setup Wizard dialog box appears. Follow the instructions it provides
to set up FileMaker Server Help for finding words. This setup
procedure needs to be done only once.
Mac OS: In FileMaker Server, choose Help menu > Contents and
Index, then click the Find tab.
2. In the Find window, type the word that you want to search for.
3. To narrow the search, do one of the following:
Windows: Type more than one word in the text box. Then click
Options, select All the words you typed in any order, select Immediately
after each keystroke to begin the search, then click OK. You can also
select multiple words to search for by Ctrl-clicking them in the
matching word list.
Mac OS: Click More Choices and type a second word in the new row
below the first word. Then click Search. You can add multiple rows
and choose different parameters from the pop-up menus for each
word.
To browse the index, type the
first few letters of the entry
you’re looking for or scroll
through the alphabetical list
Help Index (Mac OS)
Click to find a
specific word
Type the word or words
you want to search for
Select one or more
matching words to
make the list of topics
more specific
Double-click the
topic you want to see
This shows the total
number of topics found
Finding words in FileMaker Server Help (Windows)