FileMaker Server General Discussions
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To upload a database with server 13 you now copy and paste the database directly in the folder. Is that correct? I was unable to locate any "Upload" option. Michelle
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Will a FileMaker Pro 13 client work with FileMaker 12 server? If so, any known incompatibilities?
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I have a potential customer who just merged offices with another company. One office is Mac and the other is PC. One loves FileMaker and the other uses something else. The Mac/FileMaker team wants to convince the PC/noname team to use their solution. Nobody wants to change. They've asked me to give advice. I've been developing with FM for years but most of my customers are PC and none are mixed platform. This is still a small team so they want to continue to use peer-to-peer (yes, I know the advantages of FM Server). My question is which machine to host the solution on, the Mac or the PC? They are on FM11 but will probably need to upgrade. They are not currently…
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We are going to deploy a mobile application in FMGO12 on the ipad with our FM12 Advanced Server. The question I have is how are you all doing it? Do I have them connect directly to our database? Do you all run a second instance of FMS just for external clients and sync? VPN only? Thanks in advance for any thoughts / success stories you all have. Thom
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Hello, French user of FM 12 I try for the first time to share a database between two computers on the same local network. My problem is to make a compressed archive of datas at the end of a session. I join my script but it's in French... As it's the first time I don't understand the following difference From the machine server: the step of script " Export recordings [" le_sav "] presents well the available filds and the choice made of exported one (all for me) as on this screenshot; this choice is memorized between two moments of use... Since the machine customer: the same step of script does not memorize any more the defined choice, but asks to define it every ti…
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We have a client running Filemaker Server 12.0.4 on a Mac mini over a Gigabit network. Client stations are running OS X 10.7.5. The server was also running this, but we upgraded it now to OS X 10.8.5 in hopes of improvements. We have replaced the Fast Ethernet switches with Gigabit a few months back. The problem was not happening until around 6 months ago and it seems to be getting worse. Does anyone have any thoughts on what this might be? It is possible that it started following one of the Java updates that broke support for the Filemaker Server Admin interface. We have reinstalled Filemaker Server and are on the latest Java patch. Thanks for any thoughts!
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This is FileMaker server 11.0.5.51 running on a new Mac Mini 10.8.4 The whole machine was migrated from a Time Machine backup of the previous FileMaker server running under 10.6.8 The problem- Filemaker Server starts and runs fine for database hosting, but the Admin Console won't launch. I cannot launch it on the server machine, nor on any other machines on the LAN by pointing a web browser to the IP address and port 16000 I have- Run all FileMaker and MacOS updates available to me. Installed Java 1.7.0_25 (from Oracle) and enabled Java content in the browser. Tried Chrome as well as Safari. Downloaded and run the fms11patch with the fix.sh script from FileMake…
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I recently upgraded two servers running OS X 10.6.8 to OS X 10.8.5, while keeping FMSA 11v5 installed. It was not terribly easy, so here are some notes I made. I hope this helps others: Before the upgrade, go into Server Admin and document all your settings and export the settings. Your settings will be wiped out during the upgrade most likely. Make a backup of your server drive just in case Upgrade to 10.8.5, do all additional mac software updates (if any) then reboot. Uninstall FMServer using the FMS11v5 installer. Reboot Install FMServer 11v5 : note, as part of the install you will have to install Java 6 Install Java 7 as well Try to launch server ad…
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Is it possible to form a live connection between two filemaker databases We have the following set up: Firstly all filemaker software is filemaker 9. A filemaker database on a mac host machine using filemaker server advanced A local network of clients in the same location A database sitting on remote windows machine Is it possible to form a live connection between the database on the mac server and the database on the remote windows so any changes on the client machines in the local network are automatically saved to the database on the remote machine. Please note the database on the windows machine must be open at all times. Â There is a working ODBC connection …
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I want to execute jar file.How to execute it from the server ?
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I'm running FMS11 and am trying to connect to a FileMaker database with the PHP API, and I keep getting this error message. I have looked it up on Google, but the only hit that looked related was someone else asking the same question on another forum; the thread was a few months old, and there were no replies. -K
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Is there a way to rename a database from the Admin Console. We tried to close the Dbase and rename the file in the finder but when we reopened it all the links to external storage images had been broken. Thanks
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I have installed FMSA 12 (technet software for development) onto a virtual server running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Service Pack 1 (64-bit). I also have FMA 12 installed on the same server. I cannot get the Web Publishing Engine to start. I can get the IIS7 start page to display. Below is the log file and the image from my Admin Console. I have followed the "Getting Started Guide" and "Advanced Release Notes" and I am at a dead end. I don't know what error code -1 is. Is there a document anywhere that tells me exactly how to configure the IIS Web Server for FileMaker? Deployment started at 8/8/12 2:20 PM -------------------------------…
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Any way to surpress the error message when you have a script that searches and finds nothing when run from the server? Its not an error it just hasnt found any records!
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Hello, I have had to open another server location that I CANNOT set up with a static IP address. This location is where I'm going to install FMS 9.0 (hopefully). I'm interested in seeing if it's possible to bypass the static IP issue for FMS by setting up a VPN network so that the server and clients think they're on the same private side of a LAN. Having never studied, setup, diagnosed or otherwise ever touched VPN, I'm very much in the dark on the feasibility and ease to do this. I know the filemaker Go clients might be an issue with this setup, given the VPN limitations I'm sure apple built into IOS. Here's other relevant details below: Server: intel Duo MacMini…
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I just virtualized our FM9 Server on a 2003 server (will be bringing up a new 2012 server for FM12 server later). From a physical workstation I can access the hosted files on the server but on a Windows 7 virtual machine, I cannot. I can ping the server but cannot see any hosted files on the virtual server from the virtual desktop. The virtual client machine is using a DHCP ip setting. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello I am currently creating two databases using filemaker pro 12 for a hospital. The doctors and administration want to serve the file and they are willing to have a dedicated server for my solutions. I am just wondering, is filemaker server required to remotely host the files if they are on a server? Will I need a copy of filemaker pro 12 for every admin as well to access the file? The databases will be shared amongst 10 people as well. Thanks for your help
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Hello everyone, I have a database (FM Pro 12) I want to access remotely via FM Server. I watched an online video posted by Wim Decorte on Youtube and followed all the steps, but for some reason I can't open it from my iPad. Like in the video, I was able to open the file in the same computer remotely but not from the iPad. In order to access the database from the iPad, I opened FM Go, tapped on Add Host and typed the IP address that I got in the server. All I get is file not found. Can somebody help. I am sure I am missing something here. Thanks. NR
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Is there a way to export the found set from the web browser while accessing through Instant Web Publishing. I really would have just expected to see a icon on the tool bar as this is something just about everyone would want to do. thanks JW
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Hi, Can someone tell me if it is safe to install Java update 17 for Mac OS X 10.6 on FMSA 12 ? Reall bad experiences with Java updates make me wary.
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We have a CWP website that is successfully hosted remotely. We have a brand new Mac Mini Server with FMS 12 installed. Everything seems to be jiving correctly, API calls work, etc. We are moving this site to our internal server for modifications/testing. However, throughout the site, the previous programmer(s) used a lot of $_SERVER['document_root'].'/PathToIncludeFile' syntax to specify includes and requires. This is not working properly on the internal server. When the $_SERVER['document_root'] is called I get this: "Failed opening required 'cms/db_cms.php' (include_path='.:/Library/FileMaker Server/Web Publishing/publishing-engine/php/mountain lion/lib/php')". As you …
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AIM: I would like new users to be able to upload & start databases without interaction from the FMS administrator. Option 1: Is there a way to create/manage Administrator Groups in FMSA without going through the Java FMS Administrator Console. E.g. Automating this via a web interface using PHP or ASP.NET. Option 2: Alternatively, does anyone have suggestions about work-arounds that could accomplish the same thing without using FMS Administrator Groups. I.e. Allowing users who don't have an Administrator Group to upload/start databases.
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I have a solution (filemaker 11 adv) which runs through filemaker server 11. Sometime ago, I disabled the option that does'nt show the file when using "open remote" command. Also.. I can't now "save a file" as the option is greyed out. I can't remember how to show the file when viewing remote files available.. Or to be able to save the file for a different name etc.. Please advise.. TIA
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Hi: I'm running filemaker server 12 and have my container fields in the databse set to External (open) storage. The path is set to default. I assumed the image files would be stored in the same directory as the live database file but can't find it. Does anyone know where the default path to the storage is on a MAC Serve? Thanks & Regards JW
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I am running FMS 9.0.3.325 on an intel Mac running OS X Client 10.4.11. Whenever I click on the Web Publishing Link under configuration I get the following error: Deployment/Configuration error -150 Starting the WPE(wpe1) component failed: error code = 2500 Also in the FileMaker Server Overview window WebPublishing Engine has a red dot by it and the following error message is at the top of the window: An error was encountered communicating with the server. Web Publishing is running. I am able to connect to a website running on the same box that is pulling information via PHP from FileMaker. The problem is with the Admin Console connecting to t…
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A 799 Mac mini server + an FMP server license is the only way to learn FMP Php and such?
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This question is very similar to this thread, but has one major difference: there is only one file in the subdirectory in question. Overall description: I started getting 685 errors again this weekend: Error 685 server.addr.ess Error occurred while deleting backup folder "volume:path/to/file", some files or folders could not be deleted. (-1) I thought that I was having the same problem as I had had previously: something in the path calculation for the external container field had gotten messed up (e.g. field renamed) and that all the files were being dumped into a parent directory or something. But that was NOT the case. In looking at the directo…
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I and other users have been opening a Filemaker database remotely (using FM 11) without incident for over two years on a Windows server. All of a sudden, a few days ago, users outside the LAN of the college where the database is hosted can no longer open the database remotely. People on the network have no problem. This might appear to be a firewall problem, but my IT support person informs me that no settings have been changed for the firewall. Moreover, the server log appears to indicate that all those requesting access were admitted, even when Filemaker refused entry. I checked to see if old versions of the database that had worked fine would allow entry, but u…
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I back up my databases every day using the backup function on the server. For the last two days I've been getting the following mesage: FileMaker Server 12.0.1.178 on FM12 Server reported the following event: 2013-06-02 23:00:00.414 -0400 Error 685 FM12 Server Error occurred while deleting backup folder "filewin:/C:/Program Files/FileMaker/FileMaker Server/Data/Backups/Daily_11PM_2013-05-26_2300/", some files or folders could not be deleted. (20402) Can anyone help me with this. Thanks. Mike
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We had an error come up on our Filemaker 11 server running on Windows with two machine deployment. Our php apps are generating the following error when we try to connect to the database server: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker ServerWeb Publishingpublishing-enginephpFileMakerImplementationFileMakerImpl.php Nothing has been modified by IT support or our developers as far as we know. Any suggestions what we might do to reestablish a connection between our web server and database server? Has anybody had a similar situation.
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I have been successfully running FileMaker 12 Server Advanced for Instant Web Publishing (IWP) at db.npco.info, and am now trying to use PHP Custom Web Publishing (CWP). I've tried to follow instructions to make use of PHP API, but haven't succeeded yet. I will appreciate help or tips on the issue below. When clicking a link to test pages from a page http://192.168.1.26:16000/test on the server PC, I receive an error: Not Found HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found for Instant Web Publishing Test and PHP Custom Web Publishing Test (at http://192.168.1.26/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=FMServer_Sample&-startsession and http://192.168.1.26/fmi-test/…
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I have been trying to upload some server side compatible plug in to my Mac X Server  I followed all the instructions to install it as a server side plug-in putting it in the appropriate  server folder, changed the file privileges to inherit the extensions folder privileges, re-started FM server and the whole server in several occasions but I am still getting the Plug-In Name as Not Loaded, I try to enable it, and as you would expect when I restart the server the selection doesn't stick.  After running several tests, including the removal from the extensions folder of some Plug Ins I never use, I see that the admin console doesn't refresh the list of plugIns availab…
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The server is OK, I try opening on web browser and it's fine, but I try to open it via FileMaker Pro 12, add the same server ip on Favorites, but when i click on the server name, doesn't open the user log in window. Which can be the problem?
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Whenever I try to run FMSADMIN, I am getting the error "Permission denied, please try again." I have double, triple, and quadruple checked the credentials. There is no possibility whatsoever of the username or password being wrong. I can log into the server admin console successfully with the same credentials, but they fail when I use them with FMSADMIN.
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Hi, This looks strange to me last day when I found that our backup copy size just getting smaller recently. We host our databases using FMS 9 and schedule daily backup at non-peak hour over the night. One of the database file size is pretty large, which overs 2.5G in size. Our usual backup practice is to use FMS to run scheduled backup task and run script to zip the backup copy to a zipped file and copy it to an remote storage using some simple OS script. I found that the zip file size is reducing quite a lot recently, say from 1.92G to 1.86G. I thought my users must have deleted records with container fields content. After checking around, they said no ma…
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I have just replaced my Apple Airport Extreme router for a new one with exactly the same configuration, however all of a sudden, one of the computers on my network can no longer see the URL of my Filemaker Server. So I can access my Filemaker server files from any computer anywhere, except for this one computer on my network. And even from that one I can access them if I use the local URL (10.0.1.14) rather than the universal one. It is invisible for both Filemaker client and IWP. I have checked the firewall and the same ports are open all over my local network. Anyone have any ideas on what may be impeding this computer from seeing this URL?
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Hello, Â I've been trying to create a server side script that will run daily on a windows 2003 server using Filemaker server 10. The script is suppose to export it to an excel file. (I then what it to be emailed to me, but one thing at a time). It never saves to the file location on the server, i've tried every "filewin" combination I could think of. Doing some research and tried a $variable and still cannot get it to save on the server. Is there a windows settings that may be preventing filemaker server from saving to a location? Script picture attached.
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The IWP session timeout on FMSA 12 maxes out at 60 minutes. Has anyone found a workaround for this? Our newly-deployed solution is used by some staff all day long, and I'm getting a lot of complaints about this. I found one GreaseMonkey script solution on the forum, but we have users, both Mac and Windows, with different browsers.
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Sorry modulators if this isn't the right forum for this topic. Trying to open remote on FM Pro 12, adding the server ip, and clicking on the server name, doesn't open the user sign-in window, what is the problem ? The server (triple8) is ok, I open it via web browser and works fine.
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I migrated from Filemaker 11 Server to 12 recently. I noticed yesterday our statistics, which are updated through a server side script that sets a couple of global fields, were not updating. I tried several things: - stop the database server, create new records locally and then starting again, reran the script but the global fields were not updated - created a new script, recreated the task, but this worked without issues in FM 11 so no luck there - google google google led me to no known issues or behavioral changes with global fields in FM 12 Running 12.0v4 server and client... Anyone has any ideas?
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I want to set up a Filemaker database for remote access and understand that to do this it's best to get a Static IP address. Comcast won't provide them unless you have a business account -- can anyone recommend a third-party service that can provide me a reliable static IP at a reasonably low cost? THanks for any pointers!
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Hello, I have a system running FMP 10 for IWP. OS is Server 2003. I have enabled the databases for IWP and ODBC/JDBC. All editing/updating to the database is performed on this system. Since the database is enabled for ODBC/JDBC, can a remote client connect to the FMP 10 system and query data (excel)? Exporting data from IWP doesn't appear to be supported. Is this a feature of FMP Server only? FWIW, I attempted to install the xDBC client from the CD, but it doesn't install on the Windows 7 X64 OS. I also installed "FileMaker ODBC Driver (64-bit) 12.0.79.0" and attempted to connect to the server system, but it failed. - Primary client based is Windows 7 X64
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I'm not familiar with FM and need some guidance please. I have a client on FMS 9 on a Mac running OS X 10.5.8 (client). The plan is to move to a new Mac Mini running 10.8.5. For the time being, there are clients still running Leopard (and will continue to do so) and are on FM 8.5. Can I upgrade FMS? Should I upgrade FMS? If I do upgrade FMS, what version of the client should be running on the 10.5.8 Macs? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks. Stephen
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I have a few locations that are connected and usually just open the database file and it works. Today we started getting either the host is not available or the file is not available on that host. We just switched from using an MPLS to site-to-site VPN. I can perfectly see the server and everything but can't open my file. Locally I can open it no problems so I figured it's something with the VPN but I have no idea what.
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I've attached a screenshot that may better explain my question. Â I have 3 databases being served; PHP is activated on only one. Â Why?
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Hello, I just built filemaker server 12. up and running on windows 2008 R2 Standart. Everything seems running good.i can access all my data from other computers thru Filemaker pro advanced 12 perfectly. But when i write the link fmnet:/[iP ADDRESS]/InterFORCES.fmp12 on browser like internet explore or safari it doesnt bring up my filemaker pro 12 program to open links. I have also filemaker server 11 advanced running on different server and same files for filemaker pro 11. and when i copy the link and paste on browser and press enter.right away finds my filemaker pro 11 program and opens right away. So same thing doesnt work with filemaker server 12 (not adva…
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I attempted to use this feature the other day to prevent remote FMPro databases from connecting and bringing down one of the servers I manage.  I tested this in dev but when I moved it to production - ouch.  The results were disastrous.  Some users could get into all 3 of the related files that make up the db, some could only get into 2 of the 3 files, some just got stopped at the front door.  Re-reading the instructions (http://www.filemaker.com/11help/html/passwords.13.33.html) I note this phrase "A file that you want to protect must be local; however, once you turn on protection, the file can be hosted remotely."  I am confused.  Do I need to apply this lo…
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Is it possible to send a container file as an attachment from the server in a script that runs overnight? And can one run the same script from a client computer to test it?
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I've set up a DB on a Mac mini server for a small company. I would like to set up a low cost redundant server on the same LAN but different building. I was thinking of a second mini server running FMS using the same license but with the serverd stopped and server-helper running. If I can one-way sync the hourly database backups from the main server to the standby server would all this work? Issues: Licensing: Would this be OK if the database server is stopped on the standby server (until main server dies and is needed to be started) but with fmsadmin (server-helper) running? File Corruption: I realise it would be very risky to rely on file syncing a live DB but we c…
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I am struggling to get the email notifications working on FMSA12. I absolutely know that all the settings are correct and the email account is working fine on an email client program. Any clues as to where I am going wrong? Â Â
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One of my tables has a container with pictures in it. The pictures (mostly .jpg not that it matters) all showed up just fine. I moved them to external un-encrypted storage and now the container shows the file but not the picture. If I close the DB on the server and open the DB locally the pictures all show up correctly. Once I mount the DB with the server, all clients see the file in the container but not the picture. Any new records/pictures added show up just fine. I would like to get all the records to show the files as a picture like it was before I moved them. Note: I’ve done this with two other containers in different tables and they maintained their picture status…
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Hello there, after having run FM Server 7 for many years on an old, dedicated G5, we're now looking at getting the latest version for our office. The usage is light, normally it's only one or two users accessing one database, with up to 5 maximum. The office is Mac-only, 15 machines accessing files on a Mac Mini Server (mid-2011 model), running Lion Server 10.7.5. It's bad enough making sure that server runs smoothly, so I'm hesitant to use it for FMS. Especially after learning that FMS still relies on Java. I'd rather not have that on a server for security and stability reasons. Hearing that there are problems reinforces that view. What is your exper…
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I needed to download a file from FMS 12 to a local machine today. I closed it and started the download. A few moments later I got a message that the console had lost its connection to the server, and then it crashed. When I bring the console back up that file is marked 'exclusive' and I can not do anything with it. I can not change the status. It is stuck. I tried going to the server machine and restarting the console from the command prompt, but that did not change anything. Any ideas are appreciated.
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After being forced to upgrade java after the security blocking i find that all the java windows show as blank. I can blindly add the log-in info but the console remain blank. Although I think this is not a filemaker issue (the java control panel is blank too) and probably isnt the right forum, Any thoughts? Lion server 10.7.5 and java 7 update13. I had hoped that regardless of this issue I might be able to login from a remote computer that has also been upgraded but so that fails too.
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Hi all We're using some business software developed and running under Filemaker Server 11, and the clients are running Filemaker Pro 10. The company that developed the software, of course, wants to maximize the number of user licenses they can sell us, so doesn't have much interest in helping us with this enquiry. So I'm asking if it's generally possible - can Filemaker clients be logged off automatically after a set period of inactivity? Thanks Gary
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Hi, I have myself and my wife and we want to put the file on FMPro on a good server-quality windows 2008 (?) box and access our file from iPads. If we both have a license for Pro 12, will that work? So we would need 1 copy of Pro, two licenses and two copies of GO and a server box. In another year we can probably afford server but not now. Will it work for us do you think? Thank you. And while I am asking, how do I find what are known as resellers? We are on west coast of US but I read that we can get better prices if we buy from a reseller. We have 9 people and we may want to consider them all using this, looking ahead a bit. So where is best price for 9…
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Hello, I've scheduled a server side script for the first time. The script is in our CRM database, and it essentially just "shows all" and then performs an export to a specific file path. I have set this to run every night at 8pm. So far, I have not been able to get it to run successfully on schedule. When I run the script in the database itself, it exports the data successfully, but when the server runs the scheduled script, it gives scripting error (800), which is that it can't save the file in that location. Am I doing something wrong? I even changed it so that the file exports to a location on the server itself, thinking maybe that was the problem. Still …
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hi, im new and haven't found a direct answer to this hopefully easy basic question: We are using FM10 Server , what is to do to update to Server 12 on a windows 2008R2 server? Deinstallation of 10, or is FM 12 ubgrading it automaticaly? Any other steps to do (and yes, i will do a backup of the server before this)? Thanks a lot
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After doing a Java update, FM Server 11 was dead. The technique here http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/88896-fix-for-issues-with-latest-java-updater-on-os-1068/ definitely got it working. However, I'd advise caution. I did this on 2 servers. One the first server, I didn't follow the instructions exactly - I failed to Restart when it said to. This resulted in two problems: * java process started using 200% CPU * filemaker server lost some of its config info: my backup scripts, and alternate file & backup paths were nuked. On the second server I followed the instructions exactly and all went fine. Moral: pay attention, and back up your FM S…
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Hi I know this is always a tricky one but FMS has been crashing regularly. (multiples time a day). As far as I can tell it started happening recently and had been stable for over 12months before. The crash log in console always points to thread 11 Thread 11 Crashed: 0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff8fe9f250 objc_msgSend + 16 1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8b9c3f81 __CFPropertyListIsValidAux + 65 2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8b9f34dd CFPropertyListIsValid + 93 3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8b9fe0e3 CFPropertyListCreateDeepCopy + 83 4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8b9fe2c4 CFPropertyListCreateDeep…
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Hey Guys! I know there are several postings on this "aborted by user" error status reported by scheduled scripts, and I've tried everything I've read and I still can't get my script to run. I'm just trying to run a basic test script written in AppleScript to see if it works: tell app "finder" to make new folder at (path to desktop) with properties {name:"test folder"} I know the script works when I run it from the AppleScript Editor app, but once I place it in the server folder and schedule it, it fails with the infamous "aborted by user" status. I am logged in with the only (administration level) account on the computer. I've tried changing all permissions …
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We run a set of linked databases on a FM Server Advanced 12. The links work if the databases are all in the same folder on a client, but when moved to the server and accessed from a remote client the links are broken giving an error "missing file" even though the databases are in the same relative place as they were on the client install. Has anyone seen this before? We had to move our setup off a Mac server as this was out of warranty, the same setup worked on the Mac installation of the server. Current setup: Windows 2008 server R2, Filemaker Advanced Server 12.0.4, remote clients all FM Pro 12.0.4
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Folks, I'm having an absolute shocker here with users reporting Filemaker crashes throughout the day. We are running Filemaker Server 10 on a Win2K3 SP2 platform and we have a mix of clients on OSX and XP. Three of the windows clients are having issues where they do seemingly unrelated things and Filemaker will crash. The error messages received are - "An error occured during this operation" (very descriptive) and "An unsupported operation was attempted" (again...) Also we get the generic "Filemaker Pro.exe has encounted a problem and needs to close", windows thing. It is happening on three PC's, the other 40 or so are ok. I have tried the following …
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I am trying to restore some server setting on a server that had to rebuilt. Can someone please tell me where FMS 11 stores the file that executes scheduled tasks? Thanks.
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We're using FMP11 Server Advanced on Windows Server with FMP11 on Windows 7 or XP computers or on a Windows terminal server. We're analysing the Server Event Log files to look more closely about how the databases are being used. The serve reports events such as 94 - Client "%1" opening database "%2" as "%3" where the % items are replaced with variable information, so %2 might become Parts List and %3 might be engineering. %1 looks usually looks something like Production (TS1) [10.0.1.8] Now we recognise (TS1) as the name of one of the computers in our network and [10.0.1.8] as an IP address. However the name at the beginning of %1 isn't a name we recgnise …
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Hi people, (I'm new to filemaker in particular) I'd want to build a database and have it hosted externaly and let as many users as possible access it online. My question is reading a specification detail about a 100/250[ theorical ] limit of simultaneous users connected at an exact same time: - Is there a limit for the qty of "registered user" i.e 250 ? (that is user 251 could not register even when noone is connected) or will I be able to let some10.000+ users register a new account and my database will be accessible as long as there is only 250 connected at a particular moment ? *Note I am not too concerned about this 250 numbers in itself since I…
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Any help appreciated!! I have a strange situation where records appear to be deleted. There's evidence that the record has been created as the serial number has been used. No users who have access to deletion have been in on the day the record disappears (on several occasions). I have checked: Scripts that might have full access privileges, scripts that delete, relationships that could delete related records. All good there. Has anyone had similar experiences with FileMaker Pro 12.0v4/FM Server 12.0v2 Mac OSX Snow Leopard/Mountain Lion?
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Hello, I'm new to FMS and I'm trying to figure out why opening a database is taking so long. When I open the DB over our gigabit LAN things work smoothly and the layout opens in 1-2 seconds, but if I switch to our Wireless LAN opening the same layout can take up to 90 seconds and if I try to connect via VPN from home then we're into the minutes time frame. All the calculations occur server side in FMS correct? So if it's sending the same amount of results data why does a drop in connection speed cause such a drastic change in load times, unless of course wer're sending a HUGE amount of data to the client. Is there a way to track how much data is getting sent to the cl…
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I've heard Wim Decorte and Steven Blackwell say to not enable the "Automatically start Database Server" option in the Admin Console, and to use an OS-level script that runs when the server starts instead. What I'm looking for is an example of that script, which could possibly start the database server if the computer did not crash, or restore from latest backup if it did crash, etc. Currently I do not have a script to do this, so I have to manually start the database server after every server restart. Before I start from scratch writing my own OS-level script, I was hoping someone is willing to share theirs, or at least ideas of how to write it. I manage both Windows an…
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I just had issues with FM 12 Server ( v.4 ). The Admin was basically unresponsive. I could not get the Clients to disconnect. My client still worked fine, so Server was running. It is Saturday Night & we did not have much activity today. So, I decided to take down the Server. The Admin would not do the job. I killed Services. I could not restart Server. The web page came up, but it would not let me get to the Admin. Prior to killing it, I would briefly see a message that said something like "Downloading application...". Never saw the details. This was when the web page was loading, prior to getting access to the Admin. I could live what that, …
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Hoping someone might have some insight on this. I have a FM Server script that is bailing without any error. I have put email scripts on key parts of the script with last error, and some other info. It works until it gets the the IF statement and apparently exits. I put email steps in each part of the If Else If Else chains so I can know what it is executing. None of those are running. I get Last Error after a Perform Find of 0 and the records found of 3501, which is expected, but nothing else happens. The interesting thing is that after a few changed in the scrip a few days ago I finally had the change to test when no one was on the system. It worked only for 207 recor…
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I'm running FileMaker Server Advanced 12.04 on a Windows 2008 R2 server. Today I noticed that when I start the Admin Console I get an error and cannot manage FMSA: This happened before but so long ago I don't remember the solution. I do know that restarting FileMaker will not resolve the problem. I think it is related to a Java update. IIRC, there was some kind of temp band-aid fix that involved stopping all the databases and launching the admin console and then leaving it open and restarting all the databases but again, I'm fuzzy. I see there's a post in the MAC section with a similar issue (though the Admin console won't start at all), but the solution is s…
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I swear that we read that FM 12 Server would not have any limits on caching. We are running Server 2008 (r2) on a Virtual Server. The virtual machine has 4 Gig. The FM12 Cache seems to be stuck at 2 Gig. I do not find any references to caching on the FileMaker Website, on the Server Pages, whichs seems odd. Pretty important stuff. We are thinking about throwing a couple more Gig at FileMaker this weekend, but I do not want to waste our Admins time, if 12 Server cannot use it. Has anybody gone over 2 Gig on 12?
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My plan is the put the UI on desktop, using separation model with only Data served. There will be a mix of users accessing from everywhere, iPad, wan, network. Can I have a UI on the desktop for local users and also serve the same UI on the FM server with FMS for those accessing from off site? Of course I would have to make sure the UI was the same ... or would I? situation will be: 1500 users (not all at once). Have windows server top spec according to requirements and Steven Blackwell's suggestions. Box is fully protected and set raid 10. Thank you for any ideas.
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When we try to delete from our largest complex table, it deletes 200 records per minute. With 4,000 records, that will take 8 long, very long minutes or more, forgive me if my math is inaccurate. Problem is... that is a long time to wait. Is there anything I can do to speed it up? Thank you for any ideas. I appreciate this forum very much. Char()
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I'm attempting to set up our database on our network to be accessed via a remote desktop connection to our app server. RDC is how our company is currently set up to access our Oracle system and therefore this is how we would like to access our FileMaker database. I understand I'll need FMS on one machine, and FMP on the app server. To let multiple users logged into the app server access the database a FMP volume license is required, so I'm told. Seeing that technically ONE copy of FMP will be installed on the app server for users to use, how is a Volume License entered to make this work? I'm under the impression a volume license is for multiple copies of the software …
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I recently did a re install of the FM Server to a new machine. I can navigate to the fmiiwp default page, and when I click a database I receive "Database Not Available" I have checked permission and and ensured IWP was enabled. Any ideas?
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Hi. We have the following setup: Filemaker Server v11.03 on Windows 2003 Server. All clients are Filemaker v11.03. I now have one User, who needs to access the Filemaker Servers files with Filemaker 12, because he has a Statistics Program ® which can make SQL OBDC Queries to Filemaker and that only seems to work properly with a Filemaker 12 client (64 bit). We wanto make Statistics on the data in the FM11 Files on the Server. We have made tests. We created a local .fp7 Filemaker 11 file on his PCs Desktop and placed a simple table in it. In that file are also 2 more Tables from a file on our Filemaker 11 Server (the FM11 .fp7 file on the filemaker Server …
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I have a text file that I'd like to UPDATE/ADD to an existing Filemaker database on a daily basis. I have the file in the proper location and defined a $filePath variable in my script. The issue comes with the import mapping. The left pane is blank because it cannot pull any headers or data into it because the import file is on the server. That's OK, I set the order according to the order of the fields in the file. I then schedule the script and see what happens. The problem is that the script only ADDS records, it will not update them based on a matching field key. No matter what I do, Filemaker seems to ignore the double-arrow indicating that the import sh…
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New install of FMSA running on OSX10.75 with Java 7-21 installed - Every time I try to open the Console I get a blank window labeled 'Security Warning', I close that window (because it is blank) and the Console does not launch! Help!
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Hi all I have a very basic question. I have a sonology NAS that i would like to use for my file backup from my server. The server is called "DocumentServer" and t appears in my sidebar. It has an ip address of 10.1.1.26 I cannot seem to create a FMS schedule to back up to it. I get a "file path not valid" message. I wish to back up to a folder called "database". My file path is filemac:/DocumentServer/database. Can some one advise me what the correct syntax should be please Joseph
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We are currently hosting from a VM that has 2x75GB SAN drives and 1x250GB NAS. We are running the OS and installed applications (including FM Server) from C (75GB SAN#1). Our solutions are currently being hosted on E (75GB SAN#2). Backups, both full and progressive, are being stored on D(250GB NAS). Would this be considered an optimum setup? I feel like it would be better to host the solution from C, do progressive backups to E (from SAN to SAN, since it's a more frequent transaction), and full backups to D. However, our IT department has been discouraging having our hosted solution on C. My take is that if the VM goes down, we'd likely be restoring from the …
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Hello all- Â I'm running FMS 11.0.5 hosted on an Xserve running OS X 10.6.8. We have been experiencing an issue where users will initiate a simple find on an indexed field and get spinning beachball of death. Their statistics in the admin console will max out (elapsed time/call 15001916), and CPU usage on the server skyrockets (150-170%, screenshot attached). Attempts to disconnect the user via admin console will successfully kick them out of their client, but the user in the statistics panel doesn't disappear, and if they reconnect there will be two instances of their name listed. Â Server CPU usage will continue to be high for 20-30 minutes, with all users experie…
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There is a new Tech Info about addressing issues with the latest Java updater for FileMaker Server 11 and FileMaker Server 12 running on Macintosh OS 10.6.8. Please see http://thefmkb.com/11958 for additional information. Steven
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Hi everyone First of all thank you very much to all members of FMForums that allow valuable help solve problems and increase our knowledge base about Filemaker Pro Well, I have installed Filemaker Server 12 Advanced (V 12.04.405) on my computer running Windows 8 Pro (8GB Ram, AMD Phenom X4) and XAMMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc..), Is that in another post said that not supported, but it works for me well, you just have to ignore the error message to install and works. I have read on the internet that you could tell FMSERVER work with Apache instead of IIS, making some changes to the Apache configuration file (httpd.conf), such as: # Add FileMaker Web Publishing # Inclu…
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Hello All I am in the midst of installing FM server advanced on a new server, because the original server is no longer stable. The old server is still working, but not for long. When I try to run the admin console, on the new server, I receive a license conflict with the old server. As you can guess, I can not shut down the old server, until the new one is up and going. There are mission critical files that are always being used. Has anyone found a way around this? Gil
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I urgently need help with Filemaker server 12. I run a medical practice and have attempted to install filemaker server 12 latest v4. It installs Ok and then launches the start page but the admin console will not start. It displays a "Click here if console does not Start" but nothing happens. I have the most current version of OSX and have updated Java. Have also tried deleting the Java cache but all to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas what I can try? I am at my wits end Joseph
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Having a strange issue this morning. Users are all able to connect with no problem, and all seems fine. The weird part part is that I am unable to see them through the server admin console. There are 6-8 clients connected, and the admin console is only showing one. (and the connection time on that one is shown as two days ago.) This was all working normally when I left last night. Very very weird. Any ideas?
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For the second week in a row, all my server schedules that call shell scripts started failing with the following Error in the event log: Error 154 Schedule "<schedule name>" aborted; "<shell script name>" could not be found or is invalid. Just started happening in the middle of the night last night. The only fix I could figure out last week was to reinstall the server. Any thoughts?
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Is there less chance of file damage or crashing if I 1. Only work with both files of a separation model on my desktop 2. Serve the files to local network that only I can access and design in them from there using Open Remote. 3. Other ways? I figure if I crash, I will replace the files (separation) immediately anyway but I worry about served files potentially being more sensitive to damage even damage I may be unaware of happening. Do I worry for nothing? Either way I back up the files every half hour. If served, I will use backup schedule and if on my desk, I use Save A Copy As. I thought I read several months ago that working served is safer for the fil…
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I want to know if FM Server 12 can update a external MySQL db in the same manner as the client can using ODBC connection (ESS). It works great when running the scripts on the client, but seem like it won't work in the same manner via server and server scripting. I am using all relevant drivers and it does work with my solution, but I'm looking to move, automate and schedule this process to the server itself. Thanks in advance. Michael
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I am trying to upload some database files, and I am getting the following error: The folder file in:/C:/Program Files/FileMaker/FileMaker Server/Data/Databases/ does not have enough space for the specified upload or it does not exist. I have verified there are no space problems on the machine; there is 36+GB of remaining space (the file I'm trying to upload is a few MB). I've had Java updates completely break the ability to use the Server Admin Console before, is this at play here? I have tried doing this from running the server admin console both from a Mac (10.8.4) and from the windows VM hosting the server software (Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise), a…
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Hiya everybody I am really hoping somebody has some idea of what is going on here and if there is a way to fix it or work around it. I have two files with various relationships between the two files and as such, opening one file opens the other. No problems there. I am running Mac OSX 10.7.5, FileMaker Server Advanced v12.0.4.05 and FileMaker Advanced v12.4. All external data Sources are type: FileMaker Details: file:filename. When accessing one file from the other using Open Remote, such as for importing from one file to the other, sometimes the local server displays as "maximums (10.0.1.2)" which is exactly as I would expect. Other times the local server displays…
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Hello everyone, For maintenance purposes: Is it wise to schedule a task via FileMaker Server 12 Advanced to verify the integrity of hosted databases? I've checked the FileMaker Server manual and guidance appears to recommend using this feature if you suspect a database file is corrupt. I was wondering whether it is in fact good practice to verify database integrity, perhaps on a monthly basis at night to eschew performance issues. Many thanks in advance for your advice and comments.
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Hello Can I run a client accessing a server (both v. 11) on the same machine? Thank you for your comments, have a nice day!
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Hi. I have actualized to 12v4 the FM Server (in Windows Server 2008) and my FM Adv (in a win XP) and now FMAdv can not see the databases in the server. Is it a problem with the actualization? More information: With the version 12v1 (in both sites) I was able to connect. I can connected (in the same LAN) with my laptop with Windows 7 & FMAdv 12v4 to the server. I uninstalled FMAdv install again FMAdv 12v1, and I was not able to connect. In the Win XP computer I have installed FMAdv 11v3, and can connect with a FM Server 9. With the XP computer I can connect by a remote desktop, VPN, CWP and ftp to the Server. I can execute the FM console (in my XP computer) and…
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Has anyone installed .net 3.5 on their FileMaker Server 11 installation? Was it OK or was there any conflicts problems after the installation? We need to create some sort of bridge between FileMaker and a thirdparty program and the developers of the third party program have asked us to install .net 3.5 on our servers so they can create a connector between the two. Many thanks Abdul
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We have a two machine deployment on Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS running FMS 12 v4 and our php apps quit after about 10 minutes. After restarting the worker system it works for 10 minutes and then again quits. The error message displayed in the log viewer after restarting for Web Publishing Core is "webuser PHP 401 565 when querying the database. This continues for about 10 minutes and then the browser displays a 500 internal server error and all 3 of the php apps stop working. Any suggestions appreciated.
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I'm trying to export records from a constrained set into a CSV file. I have taken note that when exporting via a server script you have to export to the Documents folder on the server (or a temporary folder) so I use get(DocumentsPath) & "filename.csv" for the exporting the filename and path. When I run the script within the client it works perfectly. The exported document is placed in the documents folder. However, when I try to run it from the server no file is created. I have placed a send email command into the script which shows data from the last record in the found set and the email is sent correctly, so I know the set of records is constrained suc…
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Hi all, Got myself in trouble yesterday. Hope there is a solution. I know I have obsolete material but it works for my needs. Hardware/software : xp pro sp3 up to date as of 2013/05/05 fms9.0.3 jre6u7 firefox 20.0.1 Situation : For the past few months I had no access (on my fms box) to fmadmin as I had inadvertedly updated my jre to an update that made my fmadmin to crash whenever I tried to select a specific hosted database. So yesterday, I tried removing that jre to replace it with jre6u7 which I know is the last one to work with fms9. As it didn't want to get deleted, after googling, I decided to use microsoft's fixit and I removed it but I a…
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