Each of the three style customization methods accepts values for red, green, blue, styles, as well as optional values for opening tags and closing tags.
The red, green, and blue must be numbers between 0 and 255. The styles number can be any combination of Filemaker style codes,
such as: bold + italic + strikethrough. Consult the Filemaker reference for the numeric equivalents for these keywords, if necessary.
The opening and closing tags are blocks of text that are appended immediately before or after added, deleted or modified text.
Note: In addition to the standard FileMaker text styles, you can pass a -1 as a style parameter,
and text of this type will not be returned in the result. This is especially useful for deletions.
If -1 is passed as a style parameter for deletions, three characters of text (excluding leading and trailing whitespace)
immediately preceding and immediately following the deletion will be styled as plain red text.
In addition, any parameters passed as opening and closing tags will be applied before and after the plain red text.
At times it is difficult to discern between a single large edit and many smaller edits. The difference plugin must find a certain number of matching consecutive characters (15 by default) to consider the characters a match. If fewer than the requisite number of characters occur between differences, they will appear as a single edit block. Future versions of the difference plugin may expose some API for fine-tuning this behavior, but the default typically results in the desired behavior.
FileMaker version 7 or higher.
Java Virtual Machine (JVM) version 1.4.2 or later. If you are running a JVM earlier than 1.4.2, you should upgrade. Download a JVM from http://www.java.com/en/download/. If you are not sure what version of Java you have installed, you can do 'java -version' on the command line in Windows or OS X.
Windows, or Mac OS X version 10.4 or higher.
Note to intel Mac users: running this plugin under Rosetta is not supported. Upgrade to FileMaker 8.5 to run our plugin in native Intel mode.
Drag the plugin from the MAC or WIN folder into your FileMaker extensions, and restart FileMaker. You will need to enter your license key before you can use it. 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.
This will also enable the plugin for use with Instant Web Publishing from the FileMaker Pro client software.
If the plugin does not load correctly, double-check that you meet the system requirements.
You do not need to do this step unless you plan on using the plugin with Instant Web Publishing or Custom 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 9 Server or FileMaker Server Advanced, drag the plugin from the MAC or WIN 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.
Note that you must use the registration function to register the plugin, since there is no preferences dialog in the FileMaker Web Publishing Engine to enter the license key and company name.
Note that due to a bug which we and other plugin vendors have reported to FileMaker, web plugins do not work in FileMaker Web Publishing Engine 8.0v4 on Mac OS X. You will need to use a later version, like 9, or an earlier version, like 8.0v3. The Windows FileMaker Server 8.0v4 does not have this bug, and will work correctly.
The easiest way to test whether the plugin is working is to have a calculation which calls 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.
You do not need to do this step unless you plan on using the plugin with scheduled script triggering, a new feature in FileMaker Server 9. You will need an Enterprise License to use this feature.
FileMaker Server/Database Server/Extensions folder (Server 8 and older versions of server use the path FileMaker Server/Extensions/Plugins).Configuration -> Database Server->Server Plug-ins.
Note that you must use the registration function to register the plugin, since there is no preferences dialog in FileMaker Server to enter the license key and company name.
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!
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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.red - a Number from 0-255green - a Number from 0-255blue - a Number from 0-255styles - Any of the Filemaker style keywords, or -1 to hide text of this type in the diff result.open - An optional text string appended before an additionclose - An optional text string appended after an additionred - a Number from 0-255green - a Number from 0-255blue - a Number from 0-255styles - Any of the Filemaker style keywords, or -1 to hide text of this type in the diff result.open - An optional text string appended before a deletionclose - An optional text string appended after a deletionred - a Number from 0-255green - a Number from 0-255blue - a Number from 0-255styles - Any of the Filemaker style keywords, or -1 to hide text of this type in the diff result.open - An optional text string appended before a modificationclose - An optional text string appended after a modification