Web Publishing: IWP Overview

Easily publish forms for the Web.

What is it?

Instant Web Publishing is one-click publishing of forms for the Web.

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What does it allow you to do?

Provide your extended users with basic Web viewing and data entry of your FileMaker Pro databases through a Web browser.

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How does it do it?

Instant Web Publishing turns FileMaker Pro into a mini-Web server that anyone can deploy. For FileMaker Server Advanced, you will need a Web server — Apache for the Mac or IIS for Windows. On the Mac, Apache is already installed.

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What can my users do and not do when I publish using Instant Web Publishing?

Instant Web Publishing FileMaker Pro

Basic inputting, editing and viewing of text, number, date, and time information

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Download of files in container fields

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Upload of files to container fields

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Import/export data

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Creation of PDFs and Excel spreadsheets from FileMaker Pro data

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Viewing of FileMaker Pro reports

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Creation of layouts, reports and scripts

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Use of scripts

Limited

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Printing

Browser only

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Choose the product that is right for what you want to do

FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced FileMaker Server Advanced

Up to 5 simultaneous Web users

Up to 100 simultaneous Web users
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Resources

Documentation and Notes

FileMaker Server 9 Getting Started Guide

FileMaker 9 Instant Web Publishing Guide

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