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.

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.

How does it do it?

Instant Web Publishing turns FileMaker Pro into a mini-web server that virtually 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.

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	check	check
Download of files in container fields	check	check
Upload of files to container fields		check
Import/export data		check
Creation of PDFs and Excel spreadsheets from FileMaker Pro data		check
Viewing of FileMaker Pro reports		check
Creation of layouts, reports and scripts		check
Use of scripts	Limited	check
Printing	Browser only	check

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

Resources

Documentation and Notes

• FileMaker Server 12 Getting Started Guide
• FileMaker 12 Instant Web Publishing Guide

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