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FileMaker Server 15

Deploy, Configure, Manage a FileMaker Server

  1. Started by Steven H. Blackwell,

    FileMker, Inc. has released the 15.0v2 updater fro FileMaker Server. http://www.filemaker.com/support/downloads/

  2. I can get the native apple script to work within the scripting , however when I try and covert it to work within the Calculated section I'm struggling to find the correct method and syntax. Having searched the net for days and tried multiple ways I'm desperate for some help. The native apple script is set theStartDate to (current date) + (1 * days) set hours of theStartDate to 15 set minutes of theStartDate to 0 set seconds of theStartDate to 0 set theEndDate to theStartDate + (1 * hours) tell application "Calendar" tell calendar "Home" make new event with properties {summary:"Important Meeting!", start date:theSta…

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  3. I just installed Filemaker 15 on my Windows 10 Surface. Application pops open on taskbar but the program doesn't launch anything. Also, tried to open files that look like they should be open but they aren't appearing.

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  4. Hello everyone, I am starting this post because existing posts on the subject appear to be too old and will not allow comments. I have had to rebuild an installation following a bit of a disaster. Long story short: Windows Server 2012 r2 all new and fully updated. Filemaker Server 15. I am continually getting to the point where it states that Microsoft Application Request Router 3.0 is required and cannot be downloaded - the install then fails. I have followed (as far as i am aware) all the tips and tricks to download the ARR manually - both V3.0 and V2.5 with all the pre-requisites in the right order and the installation still fails. This was workin…

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  5. Hi! I recently moved my Filemaker databases to a new Windows server. And since then, I’m having sporadic “Database Server process has terminated abnormally” Error 701. This is accompanied in the Windows event logs with application error 1000, and these are the details: Faulting application name: fmserver.exe, version: 15.0.3.308, time stamp: 0x58124553 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.3.9600.18438, time stamp: 0x57ae642e Exception code: 0xc0000374 Fault offset: 0x00000000000f1b70 Faulting process id: 0x624 Faulting application start time: 0x01d2a8b983d812e3 Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Database Ser…

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  6. So, Windows is forcing this Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Yes tried every angle and tutorial to block this, does not work) and once this happens its breaks Web Direct Only... The Admin page works fine and users can even connect to the file directly just not via Web Direct. Something in this update is breaking this feature.... I even tried redeployment a few times. The only thing that fixes this issue is, a uninstall of Fall Creator which lasts a few days and re-installs again.... anyone have any ideas how to make this play nice with this update? Thanks, Z Sorry could this be moved to FS15 Area...

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  7. I'd get some problems with date formats after installing FMS 15, and I'm trying to solve it by importing to a clone of the original database. But two tables has no layouts and I can't find a way to import these tables without making a layout in the clone or adding a table when importing. The last seems to be the simplest, but how will the relationships behave?

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  8. Windows Server 2012 R2 Filemaker Server 15 Filemaker Pro Advanced 15.02 We got a corrupt record in one of our solutions, so I decided to do a recover on that file. It turns out that you can't do that on a FM installation on a Windows server. You get the following dialogue: "This command cannot be used by this installation of Filemaker." Douh? So I had to download the file to my computer and make the recovery locally, and then upload it again. Tedious. Does anyone know why this strange limitation is set?

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  9. Hi people, A customer is complaining about his FileMaker Pro 16 application acting up: when brought back from the background, the application requires the address of the server, even when the customer is actually logged in to the server. The customer took a screen shot of this, and the application window is clearly visible behind the nagging dialog. Clearly again a FileMaker problem, but I'm not going that way anymore, since I have to make a living as well. I was just wondering what could be done to avoid the disconnect, and on reconnect, how to help FileMaker a bit reconnecting. The first thing I was wondering about, was App Nap. There's a FileMaker help a…

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  10. Started by fileman922,

    Hello we use filemaker server 15 and some macs takes long to upload an image in the container field, it takes about a minute to insert 100kb image.... when using filemaker server 14 it does not happend.... what could be the problem?

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  11. Started by ryyno10,

    Any suggestions/limitations to hosting FMS 15 in a virtualized environment? Currently, we host a 30-40 user, 10 gig FM db on a physical server, however, p to v is being suggested by others in our organization (They're also inclined to config pooled versus static resource settings which would seem to affect the manner FMS functions) Elaborating on specific VM configurations in a Windows environment would be greatly appreciated!

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  12. Started by wattmhite,

    Hi All, I have filmmaker server 15 deployed at my office with high speed TWC Static IP address. I've opened up all the ports per filmmaker instructions but I cannot connect from my home network and all of my 8 employees on their own home networks cannot connect either. Any thoughts or possible solutions to try? Thank you!

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  13. Started by mr_mike,

    I'm looking for both guidance and software to assist in FileMaker Change Control. With over a 100 deployed solutions across multiple servers the process change management from dev > test > production is very labor intensive. BaseElements helps a lot but it is only one part of the puzzle. Porting the data from production > test across these solutions and then doing UAT and QA is again, labor intensive. How are others handling this? Is there some software or process documents I'm missing? I'd welcome any input to this topic. Mike

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  14. Hello all, I'm having an issue with my Macbook air seeing 'Connection Failed' for only one dev server, despite other devices being able to see it. Setup as follows: Macbook Air: FM 14 & 15 - able to see 2 AWS dev servers + 1 client server (via vpn) - Personal AWS Dev server = CONNECTION FAILED Windows 7: FM 14 & 15 - able to see all of the above, no issues Ipad 3: FM Go 14 & 15 - able to see all of the above, no issues --------------------------------------------------- The Mac OS is Sierra and the Dev server it won't connect to is now running FMS 15 (upgrade from 14 though this didn't fix the issue). I've spent hours looking thro…

  15. Hi, I am relatively new to FileMaker. I am a PHP developer currently working on a project that involves the FMS custom web publishing PHP API. I was able to successfully connect using the API, but the connection is no longer working. The error message says only "Unable to open file". My research says that this could be due to the database file not being open, or to a permissions issue. I can see in the FMS admin console that the database file is open, with "normal" status. The FMWEBDIRECT and PHP columns both have full circles, indicating that the database should be accessible through the PHP API. Both the web server and the web publishing engine are on, with green che…

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  16. For security reasons, my institution is requiring me to migrate my FMS15 solution, currently residing on a MacPro in my office, to the IT data center. Since they do not run MacOS, this includes a migration to a hosted windows server running FMS advanced. I no nothing about windows (eg: what is a hosted win server vs simple win server ???) , so I will be totally dependent on the IT staff knowing what they are doing (and they barely know FM, I narrowly escaped having them try to recreate the solution in Access for $$$$$ ...): Current Environment · FileMaker Server Advanced running on local Mac OS12.12 system. · RAID-0, Solid State Drives · …

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  17. I am working already a few months on my file "DTW-new.fmp12" via the FM-server 15 on my MacBook Pro without problem and suddenly today this file can't be found anymore, although it is still on the server. But it shows that the status is "Closed", so I probably should change this to "Normal" or something else. Sorry for my ignorance, but I can't figure out how to do this. I tried with "open" and "open all", but this doesn't help me. Thanks for any help, Jerome

  18. Started by theusualsuspect,

    Quick question. I know there is a way to create a standby server for filemaker, but what happens if the worker machine fails? Is there a backup option for that? I've been hunting around and haven't found anything to address this. Does the master machine take over for the worker? Any insight? (Thanks in advance)

  19. Started by JHaughey,

    We have recently upgraded to FM15 Server, and most client machines to FM15 Pro. Since then, we are having strange problems printing PDFs created in FM. The PDFs will not print to desktop printers connected to individual machines by USB. They will however print to our larger network printers. We've updated all printer drivers with no change. Any idea on what might be causing this issue? We've also been having another pdf issue since the upgrade which I will save for another thread. Many thanks.

  20. Started by nexgen,

    I have some sub-summary layouts which needs sorted records. Since, my file is hosted in filemaker server in cloud, all the records are fetched first before sorting. This is causing some delays and I'm imagining what will happen if there will be lots of records. Is there anyway to speed it up?

  21. We have had Filemaker 15 Server up and running of while but when we originally installed it was installed on port 444 (because of our router configuration). We wanted to reinstall using port 443. So I uninstalled per instructions, uninstalling, bonjour, microsoft items, java etc... Rebooted our Windows Server 2012. Ran installer and got the error message the port 443 was not open. Rand netstat -a -o from command prompt, it said Filemaker 14/ on port 443 was listening (PID 768 and 4), So used skill to kill the PID. Rebooted, still unable to install Filemaker 15, port not open. Then went into diagnostic mode, started the installer service. Installed successfully but …

  22. Good afternoon everyone, Some BackStory: When FMCloud was first announced, I was ecstatic; I'm all for moving towards cloud technology for my agency. I was nearly there...about to pull the trigger and start a migration scheme from my current setup into the FMCloud, but then the one big caveat was found.. "Supports custom app authentication via FileMaker user accounts only" AKA no External Authentication. But that is fine, I understand it was released for small businesses which need the scalability of AWS, but this DOES NOT work for my agency. I spent half a year moving away from filemaker user accounts, I can't go back; plus they have a Single Sign-o…

  23. Hello, Stange situation here. After reinstalling FMS15 to resolve an issue, one of my FMPA clients on just one of my computers displays "connection failed" when trying connect to the available databases on the server when trying to connect with the local ip adresse. All while several other computers have no problem doing the same. The FMPA client that has the issue has no problem connect to available databases via an external ip address. I have never seen this before and can't find any meaningful information on this by googling. Would anyone have any idea what's going wrong here? The error appears to be (51) on FMS.

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  24. I'm reaching the 125 database limit of filemaker server, so I need to deploy a second and was hoping I can do that on the same network and just change the default ports. But I must be missing something because I'm not able to bring up the admin console after installation. I think it has to do with a conflict on port 5003, but I'm not sure. (FYI the databases don't have to talk to each other - they are all silo'd) My question is this - is there a way to run more than one filmmaker server deployment on the same network? If not, my only thought would be to create a virtual network with my router, but I don't want to go through the trouble if I don't have to. Any advice…

  25. I updated my FMS15 from 15.0.2 to 15.0.3 yesterday (on MacOS Sierra & latest updates) running on a MacPro. I shut off the DB before updating. Today, my host files are unmodifiable. Anyone see this? Did the files get corrupted? They behave normally otherwise... I am traveling, so I can't troubleshoot directly, but I can use the server admin console remotely.

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  26. Hello all. I am running the FMS 14 backup scripts to a custom folder on the same disk as the Filemaker install. There are a number of errors generated. Schedule window Status says "permission denied" Main Status window say "Schedule "Daily" aborted; the destination "filemac:/server HD/fmsbak/" is not writable." Folders ARE created the backup databases but some files are corrupted (although others not) The backup folders do not delete after the schedule number of backups. And only recently I can't change the folder path as nothing happens if I validate or save and to log out I have to revert. Any help with this would be terrific.…

  27. Started by dysong3,

    Hi, I just installed FMS 15 and have found that a couple of my databases won't open in FMS15 once they have been uploaded. I have tried recovering them before uploading but all to no avail. Would anyone have any ideas what might be going wrong here?

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  28. Started by Joost Miltenburg,

    LS, I am trying to enter a gmail account data for the smtp-data in FMServer. It is however failing on me. I was able to configure the account in my email program with these settings, so what gives ? Any takers ?

  29. I'm unsure where exactly to post this so I'll try it here. If there's a better place please move this but it seems to be the correct category. I'm looking to setup hosting for a 15 member team who will be primarily accessing the database via WebDirect. However, I'd like to connect the solution to MySQL and open up parts of the database to 50 other users via Custom Web Publishing (php). I'd appreciate any feedback on hosting companies who can handle some or all of the following: licensing, WebDirect, Custom Web Publishing and ODBC. I looked into FileMaker Cloud but it doesn't seem to be able to handle CWP. Someone mentioned today that you can go with AWS apart fr…

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  30. Started by gczychi,

    Hi all, trying to schedule my first system server script and I am getting an error: Dec 2, 2016 9:35:00 AM Server Events Error 692 Schedule "fms backup to net vol" aborted; system script "fms_BackupScript.sh" returned non-zero status 12. Running mac OS Sierra FMS is running with its default user account (fmserver [I guess]) The shell script file works fine when I double click it and has all execute privileges: -rwxr-xr-x@ 2 admin staff 149 Dec 2 09:12 fms_BackupScript.sh Interesting, when I schedule this script with the admin username and password option, then I get an «Invalid account» error: Dec 2, 2016 9:54:00 AM Serv…

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  31. Hi, I'm am using BasicElements BE_ExecuteSystemCommand via PSOS to run different commands and commandline tools for different purposes (PDF and image handling etc.) - and it works perfectly. However some commands needs to be run from an Administrator account or even Domain Administrator account, but FMS uses the NT Authority/System account for running scripts. How do I get around this? Is there anyway to change which account FMS is using?

  32. Hello All, Recently, my company installed FM server 15 after much begging. The database that my group uses (built in FM12)is hosted on a laptop (running FM12) and I'd like to upload it to the server using FM . I cannot figure out how do do it; there is no "Upload to Server" option, and I'd rather not do it manually. If anyone has some guidance, I'd really appreciate it...

  33. Hi everybody, Is there someone that have a licence to sell for a filemaker server 15? U can MP Thanks

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  34. Started by Pyorkie,

    Hi Haven't been on for a while. I have a question. Does anyone know how to create mutually exclusive buttons? I have 2 buttons/fields that have 2 different value list attached. I would like to be able to click on one of the buttons/field and to have the other buttons/field become inactive and visa versa and to then reset to both active in the next record so that I can then choose again. If I click buttons/field (1) I want buttons/field (2) to be inactive and if I click buttons/field (2) then buttons/field (1) to be inactive but when I create a new record then both are available to choose again. Please forgive me but I am still learning , I am sure a scr…

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  35. Hello folks Today I am tasked with showing performance metrics: We need to see how FileMaker Server responds to 300 users performing intensive tasks simultaneously. For example, finds, sorts, new record creation and so on. I have a test bed of scripts which loop and perform such tests, such as creating lots of records and populating them with dummy data, and so on. Now I just need to figure out a way to have 300 FileMaker clients perform these tests simultaneously so I can monitor server metrics. I do not have access to 300 real machines. The only case I can come up with is to use multiple Virtual Machines. Within each VM, runs a copy of FM14, FM14 Advanced, FM…

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  36. I have a system being hosted using FMS14. I also have a duplicate database hosted for testing/exporting using FMS15. PSOS is much slower in my hands with FMS15. Both servers are physical boxes, with similar (maybe identical) specs (Cores, RAM HD Space, HD Space available) I also have a Server Side script that creates a found set, exports data to excel and emails it to a user. (This is based on https://www.skeletonkey.com/restoring-filemaker-clients-found-set-within-server-side-script/). The exports have a couple of related fields, but no unstirred calculations. Using FMS14 this has been working just fine. Using FMS15 it has been significantly slower. …

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  37. Started by naio,

    I keep a backup copy of my hosted solution (under OS X) in the default FMS Data/Backup folder. The backup is scheduled twice a day (noon and night) and I keep 5 versions of each copy. The solution includes nearly 100.000 pdf files in managed container fields (RC_Data_FMS folder), in total only these files take 10GB of disk space. I would like to follow the 3-2-1 backup rule so I should be storing 2 more copies of the solution, I would use a Synology NAS in the LAN, so my plan is: Keep the 2 daily copies stored in the Data/Backup folder, in the server disk (Done!) Have 2 more daily copies of the database stored in the NAS (pending) Have a progressiv…

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  38. "This is the first time I'm setting up a script to run on a server with the help of a schedule, so I will probably make a lot of strange mistakes, but how hard can it be? Hard, obviously. :|" I have a script that check for new files in a folder, process them, export some data and move the files to a new destination. It works flawless with the Filemaker Client. On the Server I can't get it to work! I'm using the BE_ListFilesInFolder step. The folder that I want to check is the following (the FMServer User have both read and write privileges on all mentioned folders): C:\FTP\FM\In\ This is outside the serve…

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  39. I have a persistent issue that's been occurring over the last few weeks. A single web user account (different accounts each time) will suddenly start flooding the server with remote calls referencing the same global calculation field, according to Top Call Statistics. It will continue doing this until the web server is restarted. FileMaker client users are unaffected (other than a bit of a slowdown). Our access table records each time that the user logged off shortly before this started, usually ~30 seconds. The field is a global calculation field that is a predicate for a relationship. However, the scripts and XML calls don't reference the field or the…

  40. Started by dysong3,

    I have successfully installed FMS 15 on AWS (Amazon Web Services) with Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Standard edition with 64-bit architecture. I have opened ports 80, 443, 2399, 5003 and 16000 and yet I still can't get FMP open remote to communicate with the server. Would anyone have any idea what needs to be done?

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  41. Started by john9210,

    I can't access filemaker help. I get the message "I don't have permission to access /help/15/15/fmp on this server". How can I fix this?

  42. FMS15/FMP15 {{FilePath}} on my hosted files usually returns the expected fmnet:/<server.ip.address>/<myfile> Can anyone tell me why one server returns fmnet:/<server.ip.address> <server.ip.address> <server.ip.address>/<myfile> Yes, ip address three times with a return between? {{HostIPAddress}} just returns the one IP as expected

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  43. I have a job that I will need Filemaker to do, At the moment I would have to load it onto our old 2008 standard server till we get a new machine in the new year. For now this project will not be very intensive about 5/6 users at most. Would it work?

  44. **This is more of a networking question, but I am applying it to FileMaker Server directly I've got two virtual single machine FM 14 servers under different subnets/buildings that I want to setup to be a hot/cold availability situation. The backup VM is synced from the production every 15 minutes (one of the great reasons to use ZFS filesystem). This server does have a static IP address assigned, but I forgot that I can't use the same IP address under a different subnet. So when the backup server is turned on, it will broadcast to a different IP address. Which isn't ideal, considering it will confuse end users to switch to a different server/IP - I wanted to make…

  45. I'm going to be buying a new FM server machine. I want it to be Mac. I'm thinking of getting the Mac Pro trash can however I don't know if it would be better to get the 3.7 quad core or the 3.5 6-core. Also, is 16 gb of RAM enough? Any thoughts are much appreciated!

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  46. Started by Rick Whitelaw,

    Attention: Before posting in the general discussion forum please review the other forums that would best suit your topic. If you cannot find one then you may delete this text and post your topic in this forum. I have a multi-file solution on FMS. When logging i (only on WAN) FM sends a garbled username whether from Keychain or manually. I know this from reading the error logs.This only happens on one file over wifi and only from my laptop. My iPad logs in fine. Strange, no?

  47. I just installed FMS 15 on a Windows 2008 R2 machine - everything checked out and the install went smooth. I then purchased a Wildcard SSL certificate from Go Daddy. I generated a CSR from the FMS Admin Console and pasted the encrypted text into Go Daddy's text box to setup my SSL. Here is the problem: The CSR generated from the FMS Console set the domain as mydomain.com instead of fmpserver.mydomain.com Where does Filemaker Server Console get the information used to generate the CSR? How do I get FMS to generate a CSR with the correct sub-domain? It is a FQDN (sub) that resolves directly to the Public IP on my server. Thanks in advance for y…

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  48. OK, In my FMS15 Server Event Logs, a Server Side script is throwing a lot of 645 Informational messages for a 101 scripting error. I know what causes that - it's a loop with Exit After Last, and I know how to suppress that from the logs by adding an Exit Loop If: Get (FoundCount) = Get (RecordNumber) However, before I do that, there's an extra piece of information in the log that I don't know what it means: Schedule "RT - RoyGen (2012)" scripting error (101 [175x]) at "RightTrack v3 : 6001 | Find Payable Royalties for an Event : 288 : Go to Record/Request/Page". Right after the 101 is some data in square brackets that I can't find a definition for - in…

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  49. Started by enquirerfm,

    Is it possible to install FMS on a windows based VPS rather than host on a single computer?

  50. Has anyone seen this with FM15. The app itself works (I can work on local files) but I can’t connect to any remote servers. Has been uninstalled and reinstalled several times. Other FM versions work on the same machine. OS: 10.11.6 Thanks, Agi

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  51. I am using a custom function to format a number into currency format ( two decimals ). RoundDecimals(11.0) = 11.00 The problems occurs when I use a variable: $amount = 11.0 RoundDecimals($amount) = 11.11 Similarly, I get the same error using a string: RoundDecimals("11.0") = 11.11 Is there any tricks to get around this issue ? This is the custom function that I used (I replaced the comma for a dot and defaulted second parameter to 2): https://www.briandunning.com/cf/974

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  52. I've a hosted database with a container field that contains pdf stored externally and open (not encrypted). The database has thousands of pdfs that were imported from a disk by a record-by-record script, those pdf can be seen from any fm client without problem. Now I've uploaded a pdf from a OS X clients, but the file doesn't show in Windows machines, instead I get a "file not found" message, but the files are there because they can be seen from the OS X client. I remark that the problem is only with the files that were uploaded manually using the command 'Insert PDF' from the container field contextual menu from an OS X client, all the other pdfs (imported…

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  53. Started by pupfish,

    Have external authentication set up for FM server 15 with several databases. When a user logins in with WebDirect it shows all the databases and a user may click a database and have access. In FM Go 15 or Filemaker Pro, a user logs in and then see the databases they have access too, but upon clicking on a database they are promoted for their user name and password again. Is there a way to make it so once a user logs in with FM Go and FM pro that they do not have to login a second time?

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  54. I've deployed filemaker server 15 and when I'm offsite (at home) i can connect to my filemaker database when my iPhone is on wifi only, once I switch to LTE the server disappears or loses connection. Any thoughts or suggestions on this? Thank you!!! Matt

  55. Every time I upgrade FM I lose functionality. This time, it seems that FM15 Server does not play nice with OS X Server 5. I have the latest versions of each. OS X is finding my virtual hosts just fine but installing FM15 Server breaks that. All virtual hosts display the FILEMAKER DATABASE splash screen. I read a long post about this problem relating to 13/15. Any new insights or workarounds for 15? Thanks

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  56. Started by TJ53,

    Is still the newest Mac Mini a good choice as a server for FMS 15? This is for for about just 5 simultaneous users to upgrade from FMS 11 that is running fine on an older Mac Mini. Thanks in advance!

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  57. Started by naio,

    My old fp7 solution had some fields that store the path to external pdf files, the files were stored in the same server machine and the path were like "file://oldserver/folder/file", the pdf files are shown in the solution through a webviewer field. The solution is developed under the 'separation model'. I just converted the solution to FM15 and I moved into a new server, at present I have both servers up and running, so the fmp12 database with fields pointing to "file://oldserver/folder/file" still shows pdf files as expected. Given that I want the paths to point to a certain folder into the new server I'm trying to find the right path to the new location of fi…

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  58. Is there any background information available on how the new FileMaker Licensing for Teams (FLT) works? And I don't mean the sales stuff that you can find on the FMI website. I am very interested in differences between 'old style' concurrent licenses and the new FLT scheme, and what information is actually used to identify and validate a licensed user. There is a lot of confusion among developers on this matter and we need to advise our customers based on the right information, don't we?

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  59. Started by koolit5665,

    Good evening all, We are currently running FMS15 within a VM on Server 2012 R2 with no issues. At the moment all our databases and documents/etc are stored within the same VM and not on separate drives (meaning that at the moment our VM file is around 650GB). I was thinking about worst case scenario that we have to restore the server after an attack but if that happened - at the moment we'd have to roll back to the previous nights backup (potentially losing 8 hrs x 8 peoples work). If the DB's were on a separate drive/storage/etc we wouldn't necessarily lose the DB data, just the server, (which could then be copied back very quickly from a previous backup).…

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  60. Started by GC GYM,

    Since going to FMS 15 (Win 2008 R2), I often get a webDirect style timeout on the admin console. I used to be able to leave it running and come back to it. Any suggestions? admin console time out.tiff

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  61. I think I may be trying to do something that is not possible. All I am doing is trying to do a simple, short-term test. I am updating a 20 yo solution that ran on FMS5 connected directly thru a fixed IP address. I have a dedicated Mac as my FMS15 Host. I am using FMP15 Client on different Mac. Both are behind my router. Local access to hosted files is 100%. I want to test host access via internet. I set my router IP address to fixed. My host Mac IP is fixed. I enter the router IP address in the Launch Center, I get nothing most of the time. Once or twice after an obscurely long wait I have gotten a dialog where I can enter the address again and account…

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  62. FileMaker Inc's new licensing seems to favour multiple VMs running separate server licenses. per VM. I've tried FMS (actually 13.0.9 so far) in a 4GB VM with 2 cores and it seems to cope with moderate load OK. But I guess the real test is if you have multiple similar VMs competing for host-node resources. Using Parallels Desktop at the moment (as that's what I know), but also considering VMWare Fusion, and regular VMWare installed bare-metal hypervisor without any Mac OS X on the host. Anyone else tried anything like this?

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  63. I'm trying to execute a windows cmd script server-side from client machines. I've got this working locally using Send Event, but I found that this command isn't compatible with server schedules, which I believe would be the best way to do this in conjunction with a flag. The specifics of the script I'm wanting to deploy are: We use Google Apps for our user accounts, of which we have thousands. We currently use Google Apps Manager, a cmd tool for making remote changes to accounts and other aspects of Google apps, on a linux server as part of an automated workflow that is triggered by Filemaker/ODBC etc. However, occasionally the process trips up, or a user needs chang…

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  64. I'm considering upgrading my FM servers to v15, mostly for the Top Call Statistics, but also the WebDirect features. To save me some time and effort, has anyone used the Top Call Statistics in a meaningly way and can give a honest review of it? Is it really helpful in any way, and if so, how? Or is it another feature that looks great on the onset, but not very helpful once you start using it?

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  65. One of our clients has an internal FM server [FMS1] running a solution that we built for them and we have a cloud based FM Server [FMS2] running another solution for them with a smaller dataset that they publish to their own clients Data is periodically pushed to and pulled from FMS2 using server schedules that run on FMS1 and trigger very simple scripts to manage the movement of data This was all running without issue whilst both servers were FMS v14 Last week the client upgraded FMS1 to FMS v15 and since that point in time the scripts have been failing when FMS1 has been trying to update data from FMS2 which is still running FMS v14 Any ideas or guid…

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  66. Hi, I have a simple question about the fmsadmin command. Does it recognise the credentials of an administrator group? I could not find this in the documentation. It would be a real bummer if fmsadmin is ignoring those, and I have a first impression it is NOT working.

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  67. If you are experiencing SSL connection state issues with FileMaker Server, this post by Wim Decorte is an absolute must read:http://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/2016/06/filemaker-15-bonjour-goodbye-ssl-challenges Steven

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