Custom Web Publishing Overview

FileMaker developers can create solutions that share data over the web by using the Custom Web Publishing (CWP) component of FileMaker Server Advanced. CWP gives you choices and control over your web pages by using XML and XSLT. You will find an extensive set of CWP resources on this page to help you with your own projects.

Downloads and sample content

XSLT Starter Solution

FileMaker has created a complete XSLT Starter Solution for you to use as a learning aid, or to customize and deploy for your own purpose. It contains both the FileMaker Pro database and all the associated XSLT files. It is an event management solution that supports capturing user information, displaying event information and managing e-mail messages. The solution is thoroughly documented with comments throughout the code so that you can see how everything fits together, and it uses CSS (cascading style sheets) to control the appearance of the web pages, so you can change its appearance by plugging in your own favorite look using CSS.

The XSLT Starter Solution is a set of FileMaker Pro files and XSLT files that demonstrate how to build a Custom Web Publishing solution for deployment with FileMaker Server 8 Advanced. The files contain an example of an event management website that might be used for registering participants for a corporate event.


The solution contains XSLT pages that gather attendee information and then populate it to a FileMaker database. All of the XSLT code is clearly commented to help you understand how it functions as it interacts with the hosted FileMaker database.


One of the strongest benefits of using FileMaker as the starting point for your web solution is that you get to use all of the rich features of FileMaker – like PDF creation and sophisticated report layouts – to do your administrative tasks, without the hassle of having to build custom admin web interfaces.


Download the XSLT Starter Solution

Instructional information and tutorials

Using Oxygen XML Editor to develop XSLT-CWP

Other useful downloads and sample content

White papers

Recommended products

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Recommended reading

Beginners

Beginning XML
David Hunter

Learning XSLT
By Michael Fitzgerald

Learning XML By Erik T. Ray

Advanced

XML in a Nutshell
By Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means

Professional XML
Edited by Mark Birbeck

XSLT By Doug Tidwell

XSLT Cookbook By Sal Mangano

XSLT: Programmer's Reference By Michael Kay

Product documentation

FileMaker Server 8 Advanced product documentation