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
- Using server-side processing of scripting languages
- 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.param (Pass parameter to Script) query parameter
- -script.prefind (Script before Find) query parameter
- -script.prefind.param (Pass parameter to Script before Find) query parameter
- -script.presort (Script before Sort) query parameter
- -script.presort.param (Pass parameter to Script before Sort) query parameter
- -skip (Skip records) query parameter
- -sortfield (Sort field) query parameter
- -sortorder (Sort order) query parameter
- -stylehref (Style href) query parameter
- -styletype (Style type) 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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The –sortorder query parameter can been used with the –sortfield query parameter to specify the sort order
of multiple sort fields. The syntax for specifying the sort order of a sort field is:
–sortorder.precedence-number=sort-method
where:
1 precedence-number in the –sortorder.precedence-number parameter is a number from 1 to 9 that specifies
the
–sortfield query parameter that the –sortorder query parameter applies to.
1 sort-method is one of the keywords in the preceding table to specify the sort order, such as ascend
In the following example, the sort order of the highest precedence sort field (dept) is ascend, and the sort
order of the second highest precedence sort field (
rating) is descend. The precedence-number 2 in –sortorder.2
specifies that the query parameter –sortorder.2=descend applies to the –sortfield.2=rating query parameter.
Example:
http://192.168.123.101/fmi/xml/fmresultset.xml?–db=employees&–lay=performance&–sortfield.1=dept
&–sortorder.1=ascend&–sortfield.2=rating&–sortorder.2=descend&–findall
Note If a –sortorder query parameter is not specified for a sort field, the default ascending sort is used.
–stylehref (Style href) query parameter
Generates an XML-stylesheet processing instruction within the output document—setting the value of the
href attribute (
href=/mystylesheet.css or href=/stylesheets/mystylesheet.xsl)—so you can use client-side,
cascading stylesheets (CSS) or XSLT stylesheets with your XML document. The value of the
–stylehref
parameter must use an absolute path. The name of the stylesheet can be any name but it must contain an
extension of either
.css or .xsl. See “Using server-side and client-side processing of stylesheets” on page 39.
This parameter is used in conjunction with the –styletype parameter.
Optional with: All query commands
Requires: –styletype parameter
Example (assumes mystylesheet.xsl is in the root folder of the web server software):
http://192.168.123.101/fmi/xml/fmresultset.xml?–db=employees&–lay=departments&–styletype=text/xsl
&–stylehref=/mystylesheet.xsl&–findall
–styletype (Style type) query parameter
Generates an XML-stylesheet processing instruction within the output document—setting the value of the
type attribute (
type=text/css or type=text/xsl)—so you can use client-side, cascading stylesheets (CSS) or
XSLT stylesheets with your XML document. See
“Using server-side and client-side processing of
stylesheets” on page 39. This parameter is used in conjunction with the –stylehref parameter.
Optional with: All query commands
Requires: –stylehref parameter
Example (assumes mystylesheet.css is in the root folder of the web server software):
http://192.168.123.101/fmi/xml/fmresultset.xml?–db=employees&–lay=departments&–styletype=text/css
&–stylehref=/mystylesheet.css&–findall