• Preparing the FileMaker Pro database
• Creating FileMaker Pro forms and sites
• Using the FileMaker Connection Assistant
  • Selecting the FileMaker Pro database
  • Choosing a FileMaker layout
  • Setting features and privileges for your Web audience
  • Setting Search options
  • Setting the Search Page logical operator
  • Setting options for the Search Results page
  • Setting a sort order for search results
  • Setting a predetermined sort order for search results
  • Setting options for the Details page
  • Setting options for the New Record page
  • Setting style options for the FileMaker Pro form pages
  • Finishing up with the assistant
• Editing FileMaker Pro form pages
  • Using the CDML tag object editors
  • Editing required CDML tags
  • Editing CDML Code tags
• Using the FileMaker Connection Libraries
  • Using the FileMaker Form Library
  • Using the FileMaker Reference Library
• Building the Index page
• Building the Search page
  • Adding fields to the Search page
  • Using value lists from the FileMaker Pro database
  • Specifying search criteria
  • Setting options for sorting the search results
  • Setting options for the search results
  • Saving the Search page
• Building the Search Results page
  • Formatting results
  • Building navigational links and text
  • Including search information and statistics
  • Saving the Search Results page
• Building the Record Detail page
  • Adding fields to an editable Record Detail page
  • Adding an email reply option to an editable Record Detail page
  • Saving the Record Detail page
  • Changing the text of the email message reply file
• Building the Record Detail Reply page
• Building the New Record page
  • Adding fields and data entry options
  • Adding an email reply option to a New Record page
  • Saving the New Record page
• Building the New Record Reply page
• Building the error pages
  • Displaying error information
  • Handling errors
• Displaying content conditionally
  • Using a True/False condition
  • Using a numeric comparison condition
  • Using a text comparison condition
• Copying your files to FileMaker Pro
• Testing the database in your site

You can use Claris Home Page to create special pages that give your Web audience access to a FileMaker Pro 4.0 database file that is open and shared across a TCP/IP network. The number and type of pages you create depend on the level of access or privileges you give your audience and what features you want to include on your pages.

For a general understanding of HTML forms, see Adding forms to your Web page.

To create FileMaker Pro form pages, you use the CDML (Claris Dynamic Markup Language) tags to specify database fields, and database actions, such as searching, deleting, duplicating, editing, and creating new records.

There are two ways to connect your Web site to a FileMaker 4.0 database:

• You can use the FileMaker Connection Assistant, which creates an entire Web site that connects to a FileMaker Pro database.
  
• You can use the FileMaker Connection Libraries of CDML tags and insert them into existing pages. There are two libraries, the FileMaker Form Library and the FileMaker Reference Library.

You also need FileMaker Pro 4.0, available separately from Claris Corporation. FileMaker Pro 4.0 includes the FileMaker Pro Web Companion plug-in, which acts as both a Web server and a CGI application by serving Web pages over the Internet or an intranet and processing database requests from the browser.