Custom Web Publishing Guide

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Obsolete request names and parameters
The following request name and parameters are no longer supported:
Guidelines for using query commands and parameters
When using query commands and parameters in a query string, keep the following guidelines in mind:
1 A query string must contain only one query command; no more and no less. For example, a query string can
contain –new to add a new record, but it can’t contain –new and –edit in the same query string.
1 Most query commands require various matching query parameters in the query string. For example, all
query commands except –dbnames and –process require the –db parameter that specifies the database to
query. See the table of required parameters in
“Using FileMaker query strings to request XML data” on page
33.
1 For query parameters and field names, specify the particular value you want to use, such as –db=employees.
For query commands, don’t specify an “=” sign or a value after the command name, such as –findall.
1 Query command and parameter names must be specified in lowercase, such as –delete or –lay.
Obsolete request names Comment
–dbopen Opened a database that was in the Web folder with Remote Administration enabled.
–dbclose Closed a database that’s in the Web folder with Remote Administration enabled.
–img Retrieved the specified image. Use a container URL instead. See “About the URL syntax
for FileMaker container objects in XML solutions” on page 24, and “About the URL
syntax for FileMaker container objects in XSLT solutions” on page 48.
Obsolete parameter
names Comment
–password Specified the database’s password for –dbopen. The Web Publishing Engine uses Basic
HTTP Authentication. See “When web users use Custom Web Publishing to access a
protected database” on page 17.
–format Specified a format file for CDML or XML grammar. CDML is no longer supported. See
appendix C, “Converting CDML solutions to FileMaker XSLT.”
–fmtfield Obtained format file information from a field in the database.
–error
–errnum
–errfmtfield
Used for CDML error handling. The Web Publishing Engine handles errors in the
stylesheet. See Appendix B, “Error codes for Custom Web Publishing,” and “Conversion
of the –error and –errornum CDML variable tags” on page 102.
–mailto
–mailfrom
–mailhost
–mailformat
–mailcc
–mailbcc
–mailsub
Used for email messages from the Web Companion. Use the FileMaker XSLT extension
functions for email. See “Sending email messages from the Web Publishing Engine” on
page 61.