III. What's in the Web Examples and Web Tools folders?
IV. About FileMaker Pro 4.0 Web Security
V. Technical Notes and Tips
I. WHAT IS THE WEB FOLDER?
The Web folder is where HTML pages and format files (HTML pages with CDML tags) are stored for use by the FileMaker Pro 4.0 Web Companion. For example, if you have written a custom HTML page that you'd like to use as the default page served by the Web Companion, copy it to the Web Folder. Then, configure the Web Companion to use this page when serving HTML documents. To do this, select Preferences - Application from the Edit menu in FileMaker Pro 4.0. Then, select the Plug-Ins panel and double-click the Web Companion. Finally, make the appropriate changes in the Web Companion User Interface section. For further information on the Web Companion and Custom Web Publishing, see Chapter 11 of the FileMaker Pro User's Guide, "Publishing files on the Web".
II. WHAT'S IN THE WEB FOLDER?
FileMaker Pro 4.0 includes three sample Web solutions: Employee Database, Guest Book, and Shopping Cart. These solutions contain HTML and image files and a database you can use as a model for publishing your own data. In order to use any of these solutions, open its database in FileMaker Pro 4.0, and configure the Web Companion to use the default.htm file in the Web Folder. The default.htm file contains links to all three solutions; if you'll only be using one, you'll want to edit the default.htm file to refer to only the one you're using. If you don't want to use the solutions, you can move them out of the Web folder and move your own databases and HTML files there when you're ready to publish them on the Web.
III. WHAT'S IN THE WEB SECURITY AND WEB TOOLS FOLDERS?
The Web Tools folder contains information on the Claris Dynamic Markup Language, or CDML. The CDML Reference database contains thorough documentation on each of the CDML tags introduced with FileMaker Pro 4.0, and overview information on Custom Web Publishing. The CDML Tool is designed to work best with Claris Home Page 3.0, which will be available for purchase at a future date from the Claris Web site (http://www.claris.com/). It also works well with BBEdit and other non-visual HTML editors.
The Web Tools folder also contains nine sample HTML files that illustrate the use of CDML. These files are located in the CDML Templates folder.
The Web Security folder contains files used by FileMaker Pro 4.0 to protect your data on the Web. For further information on these files, please refer to Chapter 11 of the FileMaker Pro User's Guide, "Publishing files on the Web".
IV. ABOUT FILEMAKER PRO 4.0 WEB SECURITY
In order to better protect your files, FileMaker Pro 4.0 includes database security mechanisms. For further information, see Chapter 11 of the FileMaker Pro User's Guide, "Publishing files on the Web".
Please note that the Web Security database already includes a record for All Databases, which will override any security preferences set for individual databases. To protect your FileMaker Pro databases on an individual basis, you may need to delete this record.
Finally, please note that you can remotely administer the security databases using a Web browser. To do this, copy the Security directory into the Web directory.
V. TECHNICAL NOTES AND TIPS
If you are already running a World Wide Web server on your computer, you will need to change the port number used by the Web Companion to port 591. You'll want to create a link to the Web Companion on the Web pages you're already hosting; for example, the following link would point to the Web Companion at a (fictional) company called EveryWhere Travel:
http://www.everywheretravel.com:591
If you aren't connected to a TCP/IP network, but would like to test the functionality of FileMaker Pro 4.0, please refer to the main Read Me file, installed in the FileMaker Pro 4.0 folder. The Read Me file contains information on how to configure your Mac OS-based computer for testing without an actual TCP/IP network connection.
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