Custom Web Publishing Versus Instant Web Publishing

If youve read about Instant Web Publishing already (in Chapter 21), youll be aware that the IWP capabilities of FileMaker 8 are quite extensiveso extensive, in fact, that you might wonder whether IWP would suffice for all your web publishing needs. It certainly seems simpler than working with a lot of XML and XSL data files.

But CWP has a number of important advantages over IWP. Here are some of the most significant ones:

In general, IWP is best for making some portion of the functionality of an existing FileMaker database accessible to remote users. IWPs chief strength is in bringing the FileMaker experience into a web browser. The most likely targets for this technology are remote users of a FileMaker system who may not be able to be in the same building or same site as the server, but require ready access. This is likely to cater to a relatively small group of users (hundreds, say, rather than the thousands and tens of thousands that a public website can reach).

CWP, on the other hand, is best when FileMaker data needs to be presented in a non-FileMaker style, either as familiar-looking web pages or in some other text-based form. It enables you to make FileMaker data available over the Web as raw XML, to integrate FileMaker data into an existing website, or to build a new website around FileMaker data while preserving all the conventions of web presentation.

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