Custom Web Publishing Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introducing Custom Web Publishing
- Chapter 2 Preparing databases for Custom Web Publishing
- Chapter 3 Accessing XML data with the Web Publishing Engine
- Using Custom Web Publishing with XML
- General process for accessing XML data from the Web Publishing Engine
- About the URL syntax for XML data and container objects
- Accessing XML data via the Web Publishing Engine
- Using the fmresultset grammar
- Using other FileMaker XML grammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Using FileMaker query strings to request XML data
- Switching layouts for an XML response
- Understanding how an XML request is processed
- Using server-side and client-side processing of stylesheets
- Troubleshooting XML document access
- Chapter 4 Introduction to Custom Web Publishing with XSLT
- Chapter 5 Developing FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
- Using XSLT stylesheets with the Web Publishing Engine
- About the FileMaker XSLT Extension Function Reference
- About the URL syntax for FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
- About the URL syntax for FileMaker container objects in XSLT solutions
- Using query strings in FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
- Specifying an XML grammar for a FileMaker XSLT stylesheet
- About namespaces and prefixes for FileMaker XSLT stylesheets
- Using statically defined query commands and query parameters
- Setting text encoding for requests
- Specifying an output method and encoding
- About the encoding of XSLT stylesheets
- Processing XSLT requests that do not query FileMaker Server
- Using tokens to pass information between stylesheets
- Using the FileMaker XSLT extension functions and parameters
- About the FileMaker-specific XSLT parameters set by the Web Publishing Engine
- Accessing the query information in a request
- Obtaining client information
- Using the Web Publishing Engine base URI parameter
- Using the authenticated base URI parameter
- Loading additional documents
- Using a database’s layout information in a stylesheet
- Using content buffering
- Using Web Publishing Engine sessions to store information between requests
- Using the session extension functions
- Sending email messages from the Web Publishing Engine
- Using the header functions
- Using the cookie extension functions
- Using the string manipulation extension functions
- Comparing strings using Perl 5 regular expressions
- Checking for values in a field formatted as a checkbox
- Using the date, time, and day extension functions
- Checking the error status of extension functions
- Using logging
- Chapter 6 Testing and monitoring a site
- Appendix A Valid names used in query strings
- About the query commands and parameters
- Using the query commands
- -dbnames (Database names) query command
- -delete (Delete record) query command
- -dup (Duplicate record) query command
- -edit (Edit record) query command
- -find, -findall, or -findany (Find records) query commands
- -layoutnames (Layout names) query command
- -new (New record) query command
- -process (Process XSLT stylesheets)
- -scriptnames (Script names) query command
- -view (View layout information) query command
- Using the query parameters
- -db (Database name) query parameter
- -encoding (Encoding XSLT request) query parameter
- -field (Container field name) query parameter
- fieldname (Non-container field name) query parameter
- fieldname.op (Comparison operator) query parameter
- -grammar (Grammar for XSLT stylesheets) query parameter
- -lay (Layout) query parameter
- -lay.response (Switch layout for response) query parameter
- -lop (Logical operator) query parameter
- -max (Maximum records) query parameter
- -modid (Modification ID) query parameter
- -recid (Record ID) query parameter
- -script (Script) query parameter
- -script.prefind (Script before Find) query parameter
- -script.presort (Script before Sort) query parameter
- -skip (Skip records) query parameter
- -sortfield (Sort field) query parameter
- -sortorder (Sort order) query parameter
- -styletype (Style type) query parameter
- -stylehref (Style href) query parameter
- -token.[string] (Pass values between XSLT stylesheets) query parameter
- Appendix B Error codes for Custom Web Publishing
- Appendix C Converting CDML solutions to FileMaker XSLT
- About the process of converting CDML solutions to FileMaker XSLT solutions
- Conversion of CDML action tags, variable tags, and URLs
- Conversion of the -error and -errornum CDML variable tags
- Conversion of obsolete CDML action tags
- Conversion of supported CDML action tags
- Conversion of obsolete CDML variable tags
- Conversion of supported CDML variable tags
- Conversion of CDML boolean parameters to XPath boolean parameters
- Conversion of CDML boolean operators to XPath
- Conversion of CDML intratag parameters to XSLT-CWP
- Manually fixing CDML conversion errors
- Conversion of CDML replacement tags to XSLT-CWP
- Index
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Using the query parameters
This section contains information about the query parameters available for XML and XSLT requests. For
information on parameters that are only available for XSLT requests, see
“Using query strings in FileMaker
XSLT stylesheets” on page 49.
–db (Database name) query parameter
Specifies the database that the query command is applied to
Value is: Name of the database, not including the filename extension if any
Note When specifying the name of the database for the –db parameter in query strings, do not include a
filename extension. The actual database filename can optionally include an extension, but extensions are not
allowed as a value for the –db parameter.
Required with: All query commands except –dbnames and –process
Example:
http://192.168.123.101/fmi/xml/fmresultset.xml?-db=employees&-lay=departments&-findall
–encoding (Encoding XSLT request) query parameter
Specifies the text encoding for an XSLT request. This query command can only be used with Custom Web
Publishing with XSLT requests.
Value is: US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, ISO-2022-JP, Shift_JIS, or UTF-8
Optional with: all query commands in an XSLT request
Example:
http://192.168.123.101/fmi/xsl/my_template/my_stylesheet.xsl?-db=employees&-lay=departments&-grammar=fmresultset
&-encoding=Shift_JIS&-findall
See “Setting text encoding for requests” on page 52.
–field (Container field name) query parameter
Specifies the name of a container field
Required with: request for data in a container field
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.
fieldname (Non-container field name) query parameter
Field names are used to control criteria for the –find query command, or to modify the contents of a record.
When you need to specify a value for a non-container field for a query command or parameter, use the field
name without the hyphen (–) character as the name portion of the name/value pair.
Name is: Name of the field in the FileMaker database. If the field is not in the underlying table of the layout
specified in the query string, the field name must be fully qualified. See
“About the syntax for a fully qualified
field name” on page 77.
Value is: For the –new and –edit query commands, specify the value you want to store in the field in the
current record. For the –find query commands, specify the value you want to search for in the field.