FileMaker version 12 or higher.
When 360Plugins are intialized for the first time, they will automatically download all required support files
Drag the plugin from the MAC or WIN folder into your FileMaker extensions, and restart FileMaker.
If the plugin does not load correctly, please send an email to support@360works.com
Install plug-ins for use with WebDirect by dragging the appropriate plugin to FileMaker Server/Web Publishing/publishing-engine/cwpc/Plugins
You do not need to do this step unless you plan on using the plugin with Instant Web Publishing with FileMaker Server Advanced. You will need an Enterprise license to use this feature.
For installing into the Web Publishing Engine with FileMaker Server or FileMaker Server Advanced, drag the plugin from the MAC or WIN(.fmx) folder into the FileMaker Server/Web Publishing/publishing-engine/wpc/Plugins folder. If there is no Plugins folder inside the wpc folder, then create it manually. Restart FileMaker Web Publishing, and now the plugins should be ready to go.
The easiest way to test whether the plugin is working is to call the version function of the plugin, and display that on an IWP layout. If it shows "?", then the plugin is not working. If it shows a number, then the plugin has been installed successfully.
If you are using FileMaker Server 12.0v1, you can follow the same procedure as detailed above for custom web publishing. However, in FileMaker Server 12.0v2 and later, custom web publishing now runs as a 64-bit application and requires the 64-bit version of the plugin You will need an Enterprise license to use this feature.
For Mac, the single plug-in file in the MAC directory contains both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. For Windows, look for the plug-in that has the extension .fmx64 and use it in exclusively in custom web publishing.
To install 64-bit plug-ins, install either the .fmx64 or the .fmplugin to the following directory:
FileMaker Server / Web Publishing / publishing-engine / cwpc / Plugins
If it does not exist, create the Plugin folder manually. Restart FileMaker Web Publishing, and then you can then test a script that contains a plug-in and see if it returns the correct values.
You do not need to do this step unless you plan on using the plugin with scheduled script triggering. You will need an Enterprise license to use this feature.
360Works has created an AutoUpdate helper database which makes setting up AutoUpdate much easier. This file includes pre-configured plugin files which you can place on your server, and an AutoUpdate script for each of our plugins which you can paste into your own solution.
You can get the AutoUpdate360Works file here Follow the instructions included in the file to either host your own Auto Update server or pull the files from ours.
Plugins will run in demo mode until they are registered. While running in Demo mode, the product will run for 2 hours every time you launch FileMaker / FileMaker Server / FileMaker Web Publishing Engine. The 2 hour time limit will reset every time you relaunch FileMaker. There is no expiration date when Demo mode stops working. There are no feature differences between the Demo version and the licensed version.
Once you have purchased the plugin, you can register it with the license key. Once a valid license key is entered, the product will run for as long as FileMaker is running. After FileMaker starts up with the plugin installed, open FileMaker preferences, click on the Plug-ins tab, select the plugin from the list, and click the Configure button. Enter your license key and company name in this dialog. You will only need to do this once on a given machine. Alternately, you can use the registration function to register the plugin during a startup script.
Note: If you are running the plugin with FileMaker Server / FileMaker Web Publishing Engine, you must use the registration function to register the plugin, since there is no preferences dialog on FileMaker Server to enter the license key and company name. You will need to call the register function at the beginning of any script that is going to call plugin functions. This will ensure that you do not get demo mode errors.
We love to hear your suggestions for improving our products! If you are experiencing problems with this plugin, or have a feature request, or are happy with it, we'd appreciate hearing about it. Send us a message on our website, or email us!
When calling plugin functions as script steps, you will handle errors in the same manner you would any other FileMaker script step. Please see the FileMaker documentation for how to handle errors appropriately. Generally, if there is an error, our plugins will return an error code of 1552 when Get(LastError) is called. However, some plugin functions will return different error codes. If a function can return an error code other than a 1552, it will be documented with the description of the function below. In addition to the error code, you can also get the description of the error by calling Get(LastExternalErrorDetail). Please note that if you are using FileMaker 19.6 or later then this function has been renamed to Get(LastErrorDetail)
You can also call our functions in a calculation dialog. In this case, error handling is done differently. If you decide to call plugin functions in a calculation dialog and you want to capture errors, see this page page for instruction on how to do so
paramName
corresponds to the name
of an input in the HTML form, which may differ from the label for the field as it appears on-screen.
The paramName should match the name
attribute on the <input type="text" name="my_input">
input element in the HTML source code.
In addition to field inputs, you can specify files to upload to a form using the WAUploadFileAtURL function.
Again, the inputName should match the name
attribute on the <input type="file" name="my_upload">
in the HTML source code.
You can specify multiple parameters or file uploads. They will all be sent the next time the WAGetURL function is called.
For more advanced users, there is the option of setting the content of the request manually, using the WASetRawPostData function.
This will be sent as-is in the request, which is useful if (for example) the POST
data should contain an XML document instead of key/value pairs. You are responsible for encoding this information correctly, as it will be sent as-is to the URL.
Let ( setup = WAReset & WASetInputValue( "first_name" ; "Sam" ) & WASetInputValue( "last_name" ; "Barnum" ) & WASetInputValue( "email" ; "sam@example.com" ) ; WAGetURL( "http://example.com/test/signup.php" ) )
To get an image from a password-protected website, just use the following calculation:
Let ( setup = WAReset ; WAGetURL( "http://example.com/images/logo.jpg" ; "username=bob123", "password=secretpass" ; "type=container" ) )
To upload files to a web form, pass container data to the WASetInputValue
function, or a URL to the WAUploadFileAtURL
function:
Let ( setup = WAReset ; WASetInputValue( "upload1" ; Products::picture_container ) & WAUploadFileAtURL( "upload2" ; "file:///Users/sam/Pictures/header.jpg" ) ; WAGetURL( "http://example.com/upload.php" ) )
WAConfigure("proxyHost", settings::proxyHost) and WAConfigure("proxyPort", settings::proxyPort)Do this in your startup script, and any further connections will go through your proxy host.
https
urls.SO_TIMEOUT
) in milliseconds which is the timeout for waiting for data. A timeout value of zero (the default value) is interpreted as an infinite timeout.optionName
- the optionName to set.value
- the value of the optionName.headerName
- the name of the HTTP header to fetchPOST
request.
Otherwise, a GET
request is used to get the contents of the URL.
You can also use this to get the contents of files on your local machine, using the following syntax: file:///path/to/file.txt
.
If the content type of the returned data is text, this function returns the text. Otherwise, a container is returned. Alternatley, you can specify a type to return the URL content as, using the type
parameter (see Optional Parameters below).
You can optionally supply a username and password, for accessing password-protected content. This must be passed in with each request, as the values are cleared out after doing the request.
Set Variable [ $xml = WAGetURL( "http://myservice.com" ; "username=bob" ; "password=secret" ; "type=text" ) ]
url
- the location of the file to get.optionalParameters
- optional parameters
Calling this function will scan the HTML
parameter text for the form identified by the whichForm
parameter.
For every input element in the specified form
, WASetInputValue will be called with the corresponding inputName and value.
html
- block of HTML code containing one or more <form>
swhichForm
- the optional id, name, or index of the form to use. If omitted, the first <form>
will be used.licenseKey
- a valid license key string, or the literal string "DEMO" to run in demo mode.registeredTo
- the company name for the license key used.charset
- a character set name, for example US-ASCII
, ISO-8859-1
, UTF-8
, UTF-16
.errorCapture
- set to true to suppress the default popups.WASetInputValue( "email" ; Contacts::emailAddress )
To send a container field as an attachment, pass the container field as the value
.
WASetInputValue( "photo" ; Contacts::portrait )
If you want to upload the contents of a local file or URL instead of a container, use the WAUploadFileAtURL function instead.
You can call this function multiple times before sending a form. If called twice with the same inputName, this will _not_ overwrite the previous value, but will send both values.
inputName
- the unencoded name of the form inputvalue
- the unencoded value text, or a container to send as an upload.GET
arguments instead of POST
arguments.
You cannot combine this with calls to WAUploadFileAtURL in the same request.
You can call this function multiple times before sending a form.
dataToPost
- raw encoded POST data to send in the next request.GET
arguments instead of PUT
arguments.
You cannot combine this with calls to WAUploadFileAtURL in the same request.
You can call this function multiple times before sending a form.
dataToPut
- raw encoded PUT data to send in the next request.headerName
, and the cookie data as the value
.
WASetRequestHeader("Cookie", "sessionID=123456789;style=basic")
headerName
- the name of the HTTP header to setvalue
- the value of the HTTP headerhtml
- some HTML.multipart/form-data
.
If you want to upload the contents of a container field instead of a URL, use the WASetInputValue function instead, passing the container as the value
parameter.
inputName
- the input name to associate with this file.url
- URL pointing to a file to upload. This can be a local file (file:///path/to/file
) as well as a remote URL (http://example.com/logo.jpg
).