CDML Reference Book??

[Bunny]

Hi ya,

Can anyone recommend a good CDML Book please??

I have access to the CDML Tag Reference Tool, and all related development PDF's, but being new to Filemaker and CDML I am really looking for a book that provides details of the tags being used in working examples.

Many thanks

[Unable]

Hi Bunny, Before you spend money on a book, why not hop over to the Sample Files forum. Members have posted several solutions for different web publishing/cdml issues. These include db's and format files and images and who knows what else. Golly there is a lot there and it is FREE. Plus dissecting the work of others can be very educational. If you can't open the format files as text because of system/application issues, you can always copy them under Source in your browser. The samples available are quite good and useful. You can learn a lot from them.

Best wishes

[Jeff Spall]

Hi, IMO the best help tool for CDML is the defunct Claris Home page if you can get hold of a copy. It's way out of date as an HTML editor, but it has an almost complete drag-and-drop CDML library embedded in it and there's a "connection assistant" that will write basic working solutions from your databases for you in a couple of minutes: A site that will search, see details, create, amend records etc. And it'll do radio and checkboxes and popup lists etc. for you.

You can use the pages generated to get the CDML working and then work them up in another editor.

A shame FileMaker didn't continue to develop this, or at least bundle the old one free with FMP unlimited. At the very least it saves you grief by spelling the fieldnames right!!

regards, Jeff

[Anatoli]

IMHO Home Page sucked big way with HTML standards. E.G. languages and proper coding.

To develop such application will strain FM resources.

But they should make CHP freeware or release the code so people can develop that further.