Chapter 7. Altering FileMaker Data

IN THIS CHAPTER

Introduction

Creating Records

Deleting Records

Editing Records

Introduction

In this chapter, I show you how to create web pages capable of altering data that is stored in your FileMaker database. When I say alter, I mean:

Creating records

Deleting records

Editing records

Naturally, you are not going to want the general public doing these sorts of things to your product catalog. However, it might make a lot of sense to allow members of your workgroup to perform these actions.

A fairly common setup is to have these sorts of pages published only on your company intranet, as opposed to the public Internet. By definition, your company intranet would not be accessible to the general public, ...

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