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FileMaker Server 9 Help
About FileMaker Server
New features in FileMaker Server 9
Deploying FileMaker Server
- Which deployment type is right for me?
- Testing FileMaker Server
- Checking the status of your deployment
- Changing a FileMaker Server deployment
Starting Admin Console
Hosting databases
- Editing accounts and privilege sets
- Uploading database files
  - Uploading database files manually
- Verifying databases are available to FileMaker Pro clients
Hosting websites
- Hosting PHP websites
- Hosting XSLT websites
- Hosting databases for XML queries
- Using Instant Web Publishing
Starting and stopping FileMaker Server
Configuring general settings
- Server information settings
- Email notification settings
- Admin Console settings
- Auto Start settings
Configuring Database Server settings
- FileMaker Pro client settings
- Database settings
  - Cache flushing operation
- Database Server security settings
  - External authentication for database access
- Default folder settings
- Logging and statistics settings
- Server plug-in settings
Configuring web publishing settings
- General web publishing settings
- PHP web publishing settings
- XSLT web publishing settings
  - Text encoding for XSLT requests
  - Configuring the interaction between web sessions and database sessions
- XML web publishing settings
- Instant Web Publishing settings
Administering clients
- Sending messages to FileMaker Pro clients
- Disconnecting clients
Administering databases
- Sending messages to FileMaker Pro clients of selected databases
- Opening hosted files
- Closing hosted files
- Pausing hosted files
- Resuming hosted files
- Removing hosted files
Using ODBC and JDBC with FileMaker Server
- Sharing FileMaker databases via ODBC and JDBC
  - Enabling sharing via ODBC and JDBC
- Accessing external ODBC data sources
Monitoring FileMaker Server
- Viewing statistics
- Tracking activity in log files
Managing plug-ins
- Enabling server-side plug-ins
  - Folders for server-side plug-in files
  - Changing plug-in file permissions (Mac OS)
- Enabling auto-update for plug-ins
  - Preparing Mac OS plug-in files for conversion to .tar format
Securing your data
Scheduling administrative tasks
- Scheduling database backups
  - Tips for database backups
- Running server-side scripts
  - Running ScriptMaker scripts
  - Running system-level script files
- Sending scheduled messages to clients of hosted databases
- Creating schedules
  - Examples of repeating schedules
- Editing schedules
- Duplicating a schedule
- Deleting a schedule
- Running a schedule manually
- Enabling and disabling schedules
Troubleshooting
- Deployment problems
- Admin Console problems
- General problems
- Network problems
- Problems on client computers
- FileMaker Server event log messages
- Command line error messages
- Improving performance
Checking for updates
About the license key
Command line reference
- fmsadmin commands
Glossary
Registration
Customer support and Knowledge Base
Copyright information

Administering databases

ILEMAKER SERVER 9 HELP 93

Administering databases

The Databases pane lists all databases hosted by FileMaker Server. The database files are

grouped in the default Databases folder

, the additional database folder, and any subfolders. To

manage hosted databases, choose what you want to do from Actions and click Perform Action.

About hosted databases

When FileMaker Server starts, it automatically opens, or hosts, all files in the FileMaker Server

Databases folder and the optional additional database folder as well as files in subfolders one level

down. See Hosting databases

(page 31).

Viewing database details

You can view the Status of each database, the extended privileges enabled by FileMaker Pro, and

the Details for clients

currently connected to the database.

Managing hosted databases

Select one or more databases, choose one of the following Actions, then click Perform Action:

For Actions, choose To

Send Message Send a text message to all FileMaker Pro clients connected to

the selected databases. See Sending messages to FileMaker

Pro clients of selected databases (page 95).

Send Message to all Send a text message to all FileMaker Pro clients connected to

any database hosted by FileMaker Server. See Sending

messages to FileMaker Pro clients of selected databases (page

95).

Open Open selected databases with the Status: Closed or

Checking. See Opening hosted files

(page 96).

Open all Open all databases with the Status: Closed or Checking. See

Opening hosted files

(page 96).

Close Close selected databases with the Status: Normal, Paused,

Opening, or Checking. See Closing hosted files

(page 97).

Close all Close all databases with the Status: Normal or Paused. See

Closing hosted files

(page 97).

Pause Pause selected databases with the Status: Normal. See

Pausing hosted files

(page 98).

Pause all Pause all databases with the Status: Normal. See Pausing

hosted files (page 98).

Resume Resume selected databases with the Status: Paused. See

Resuming hosted files

(page 99)

Resume all Resume all databases with the Status: Paused. See Resuming

hosted files (page 99).

Remove Remove selected databases with the Status: Closed or delete

empty subfolders. See Removing hosted files

(page 100).