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What is the version of mozilla firefox supported in FileMaker 18?

Could filemaker 17 or 16 run on the new Qualcomm powered windows pcs? Am planning to buy one and this would be a deal breaker for me

Longtime FM Pro user, and it's still my go-to app builder whenever I have a choice. But now I've got to put together an Access-based solution at work. Might make sense to ask these questions in an Access forum, but so far, nobody there knows FileMaker, so... A couple things I could use some help on from anyone who has used both platforms a good bit. In FM, when I want to process imported data bit but not weight the solution down w/too many calc fields, I use an auto-enter calc that adjusts the data during import. So, what's the nearest equivalent to an auto-enter calculation in MS Access? I'm using calc fields so far, but have concerns about this getting slow eve…

Hello I have an old portable mac running FMSA 11 in a dusty cupboard and it works fine. I am reading great things about Raspberry Pis and so I am wondering if anyone has tried to run Filemaker on a RPi? As apple is already using ARM processors maybe it is possible? I hasten to add that I have absolutely no programming, dev or linux experience, so this is a really neophyte question. Thanks for any thoughts

Hello - I'm rather new at this and I am sure there is probably an easy way to do this but... 1. I exported a Playlist from iTunes (latest version) as a text file and saved it as an Excel File and also as a Filemaker 12 file. 2. I would like to sort any of these files by the "Date Added" field. There are over 17,000 song titles in these files. Since all of the data in this file is text, I obviously cannot just perform a sort on that field and expect it to be correct. I want to store the information and and other date/time info in the file in a FM "Timestamp" field Does anyone have a simple solution to this problem? I am running FileMaker 12 Adv…

Hi I hope that this the right place to make this question: I would like to know how to Get Serial Number HArd Disk o USB drive with a script? Can somebody help me? Many Thanks an advance.

Just bought a new netbook, and need to install FM. Any ideas. Copied disk to external drive and cannot find the install file. Bob

I have a runtime solution and need to know if it will work in a Linux enviornment. Thank you in advance. Caroline

Has anyone used FileMaker with Microsoft InfoPath? If so, how difficult is it? My company has developed a Portal and are saying that FileMaker will not work as is (which I don't believe)and that we would have to go through InfoPath. InfoPath states that it will work with Access, of course, so it should work with FileMaker. Right?

We've been running FM Pro 9 on two virtual Citrix servers with no problem for a while now. We decided to upgrade them to FM Pro 10, after seeing favorable results from regular desktop users. Strange, but as soon as we installed and ran FM Pro 10 on the Citrix servers is when the problems started. When one user logs in and starts using FM, the CPU load stays at about 45 to 50 percent. Second user logs in and runs FM10, the CPU load is at 90-95%. Third and subsequent users are so slow it's unusable. When it was rolled back to FM9, then everything is hunky-dorey. From what I've been told, the only change to these servers has been the FileMaker s…

I'm currently running 1 Citrix server with the following configuration that works perfectly: Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 MS Windows 2003 Enterprise Server SP1 FileMaker 9.0v1 Accessing from Windows XP ICA Client 9.230.50211 On a NEW second server, running through a different Citrix farm, I have the following: Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 MS Windows 2003 Server SP2 FileMaker 9.0v1 Accessing from Windows XP ICA Client 9.230.50211 Because of our company divisions and licenses, this separation is required, however, both of the FileMaker clients will access the same FileMaker 9 Advanced Server. All of these machines are on the same Dom…

I bought PIXMA MP530 Office Printer for just $ 167.00 from Planetonline. Its 1 picoliter sized ink droplets produce exceptionally detailed photos. It produce impressive 1200-dpi scans, with vibrant 48-bit color depth. The automatic document feeder holds 30 originals, so it's easy to copy, scan or fax multipage documents.

Has anyone tested FileMaker 8.5 on the VISTA operating system? Do you know where I can get information on known issues? My boss has VISTA beta and wants to test with FM. Thanks.

Does anyone know of a way to determine if the user is currently in a Citrix/Terminal Services session or not? I have customers with a mixed bag of local workstations connecting directly to the Server and remote workstations connecting via a Citrix/TS server. I really would like to tell, via script or calculation, whether the user is in a Citrix/TS session or not. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated including command line code.

hello, anyone out there using filemaker pro 8 and citrix 64 bit edition??? any comments please. thanks, jd.

I hope someone can help with this small issue. I have a FMP8 file being served using TS. I want to see who is logged into the database. I RDP into the TS server and open the FM Server Admin Tool, then click onte Clients screen. There is a list of all the users, however the Computer name for each one is the name of the Computer they TS into, not their individual user name. How do I get TS to put in the users (Windows) login name into the Computer Name? TIA Jerry

Currently accessing Filemaker via a citrix published application. when program launches it asks for what database to open. would like to specify database in command line. is this possible? if so what is the correct syntax.

I have a client that wants me to deploy a solution using a remote technology like TS or Citrix. After looking over the forums here I am still sort of left in the dark. Does anyone have an opinion as to what are the benifits of using Citrix over Terminal Services? Which is a better solution and why? From my limited reading it seems like TS is fast, cross platform. Why would I ever use citrix? Is one better on security or stability than the other? TS also seems significantly cheaper. BTW I am deploying initially in FM6 Opinions welcome!

I have a solution deployed in FM6 using Citrix. We have had lots of problems printing locally. I am now planning a new instalation of FM8 using TS. There has been some discussion on this board about problems with TS printing to local USB printers. It this still an issue? Are there any other printer gotcha's that anyone would like to share, or has FM8 solved many of the printing issues? TIA Jerry

A bit of background before I ask my question - the main product my company sells is a shrinkwrap that the price is determined mainly by how many users was to run the program at any given time. Most clients are using a runtime, while the others are using Server to host the database. Anyways - I know that Filemaker can run on a Citrix server. I've even read the whitepapers that FileMaker has available on the subject. But this potential client wants to run a Runtime version on Citrix. I don't have a Citrix server, but I did test this situation on a Terminal Server (2000), and seems to run OK. Of course, it still would only let one person run the program at any on…

We are still ironing out the bugs in our new terminal server, and I'm trying to figure out why we get frequent disconnects (as often as once every two minutes). This is not a common bug with FM 6 and terminal services, is it? Thanks, Eric

Has anyone gotten Fm Pro 7 to run on a Netware 6.5 server? Just sharing the dastabase off the server between 3 people is slow.....

Hello all, I have a FM 6 solution that is deployed using CitrixMF as a Published application. The setup is great, thanks to everyone who helped me make the choice! I now have an odd printing issue. The report I am printing is a multipage document. The body of the document is a merged field that spans a number of pages. The form has a footer but no headers. In my office, printing works fine (of course) but when my client prints to his printers the merge field, totally ingores the footer and prints right over the text in the footer and prints right to the bottom of the page. Anyone ever seen this type of issue? We are both pringing to a local printe…

https://www.gotomypc.com/ FileMaker Version: Dev 7 Platform: Mac OS X Panther

Hello fellow developers, Does anybody know if we can install FM7 on an AS/400 ?

We have FM Server 5.5 running on a G4, accessed by FM 6 clients on OS X 10.3 and XP. We just installed a terminal server running Windows Server 2003. In testing out our rather complex database solution over terminal services, I encountered one print script that is supposed to only select records for the current user and print them. Instead, it prints every user's records. I narrowed down the failure to the following script steps: Copy [select, "gID Current User"] <-- this is a global field Enter Find Mode [] Paste [select, No style, "User ID"] <-- this is a number field What fails (apparently randomly) is that the copy step fails to copy the global f…

I've just installed Windows Server 2003 ( 5 user ) on a PC at work and have set up Terminal Services to enable 5 people to connect remotely. I just have a couple questions: 1. I'm using 10 VLA licenses pack in FM6 so do I need to do anything with Windows Server 2003 licences? 2. If I am connecting from home with RDC can I print to my home printer instead of the printer at work? I have 5 users at the Main office connecting to a FM Server 5.5 all using OSX and the remote users are also all OSX. Any ideas.

Hi Guys, Need some advice. I installed a 8 user FMP6 solution on a local area network which was based on the Mac platform. I now have the need to connect possibly another 5 users to the database, but I need to do this remotely. I have used Terminal services before in the past to connect users to a PC. My problem is the client doesn't want a PC on his network (he doens't want to learn yet anothe OS), os my question is does any software similar to TS exist on the Mac. Can someone point me in the right direction, with prices and any drawbacks of using remote software to connect 5 users to my db Thanking all in advance Cheers Jalz

I am currently using FileMaker Pro 6 "Unlimited" on a Citrix Server (as clients to a separate FM 5.5 Server) and am looking at FM 7. Does anyone know how FileMaker allows the Citrix Server to use the single license (I am assuming that I have to purchase a volume license but don't know how the installation will allow me to have multiple users to access the Server from Citrix at the same time). Or, does the "volume" license take care of that by itself.

I have a fm6 DB running on a eMac (with Server 5.5). I would like to enable access for our remote sites and employees working from home ( 6 - 7 users). We have a 512mb Broadband link and we are all Mac OS 9 to 10.3.5. Is Terminal Service a option and if so what will I need? Will I be able to access TS from a Mac? Any help will be much appreciated.

We have a client who is going to be upgradint to Citrix. They are running a Win2000 platform now and are using FM 5.5 and 5 server. Where can I get a best practices paper or somthing. We have never delt with citrix and I want to be prepared. i didn't find a whole lot od info on FM's site (surprise, surprise) thanks in advance for your help

what is the best way to publish a launcher file to each user on terminal services the launcher file is single user. I put it once in the all users folder but it would only allow the first user to access the second user got the error that it was in use. the only way I saw was to duplicate it on to each users desktop folder. Is there a quicker way? FileMaker Version: Dev 7 Platform: Mac OS X Panther

Regarding Filemaker Pro 6v4 on Citrix Metraframe XP: We have about 30 users running Filemaker Pro on 2 different Metaframe XP servers (dual processor) with Filemaker Server hosting our databases. In certain situations, the clients will use up 100% of both CPU's on both servers for 15 to 20 minutes. It appears that every copy of filemaker on each server tries to consume as much processor time as possible. It also appears that a single user initiates the chain of events that cause this by performing an action on the database such as a sort or a find (although we are not sure which action it typically is). The filemaker server does not appear very …

Uisng FMP over Citrix. The problem, the users go to print and the only printers available are ones that are set up on the Citrix box... Is this the only option? - Or can the users access their local printers? I've read the couple of FMP articles on Citrix and FMP, but not a peep about printing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Bruce J Kansas City

I would like po place a FP7 file on a linux webserver and have users access it remotely. Is this possible? If not how can I have a file on a remote server so that authorizesd users can access it? Version: v7.x Platform: Mac OS X Panther

My customer has been running FMP V3 under Citrix for a few years. Although this was not a supported combo, the performance was reasonable. We did have initial problems but the then H/W supplier managed to give everyone their own copy of FMP.exe. It worked. Recently, I talked hem into upgrading to FMP V6. What a shambles! I won't describe all the problems but just recently things have become almost impossible. (Basically, losing files and using 100% CPU for up to 30 mins doing nothing.) Unfortunately, I do not know just what the H/W guy did with V3. FMP told me that we had to use Server with Citrix, even though I cannot find this documented anywhere. So my cu…

Does anyone have any information regarding the differences between fonts in Windows and Mac OS ? Our database was designed for the Mac and has worked well for a number of years but since migrating some of our workstations to Citrix and Windows output prints incorrectly due to the fonts on the Mac and PCs being ever so slightly different. It appears that FileMaker for Windows is not WYSIWYG. FileMaker themselves do not see this as their problem but as a font problem. Thanks in advance, Dave.

I'm researching the use of FileMaker Pro 6 on Win2K Terminal Server. I've searched the FM Support site and read what I could, but can't find a specific list of limitations of developing/modifying FMP databases from a thin client. The FAQ has this Q&A: **** begin quote **** Can users create FileMaker applications in a Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services environment? Yes

I have a customer who has decided to deploy my FileMaker solution using Terminal Services. So far everything is going well except for the spell checker in FileMaker. I can't get it to add words to the User Dictionary when the user clicks on the Learn button. I verified that the dictionary is selected and the the Learn button is available in the Spell Check dialog box. It just won't add words to the dictionary. Any words of wisdom?

Ok running FM Server 5.5 on a red hat 9 box. Sometimes, when a user opens a file some of the records do not show up. I have a master couter called "Batch #". That is created at the time the new record is made. It is a calculation of "Initials" a text variable + "page#" an incremental number variable that counts up by 1's. This whole thing has been working for the last 6 months until we switched over to linux. So just to clarify. The Batch# should alway match the record number..always! Now...this is what has happened. In a DB that has 9 records, actually show only having 7 when I open it over the network. Records 7 and 8 are missing...the batch #'s jump f…

Hi We are rolling out Citrix to users who currently have multi user databases stored on Novell servers and accessed via FileMaker Pro 5/6 installed on their PC or Mac workstations. Because the databases are multi user we have to move to FileMaker Server, but want to continue to store the databases themselves on Novell servers. Can anybody advise how we can do this? Many thanks Jenny

I have a fmp.5 db that was developed and currently exclusively used on a mac. I have recently purchased a jump drive, so I can carry my db back and forth from home to work. I currently have a mac at work and a pc at home (I also have a mac, but the pc is in a better location in the house, so if the answer to my question is no, I'll survive!). Will I be able to go back and forth between my mac and my pc without damaging the db?

My wife has a major client that requires project management using MS Access. Their office is 100% Mac and they use FileMakerPro currently. She supplied me with some files from the client (They have a suffix of ".mdb"). I tried to convert them using FMP v6.0. I got a successful conversion, but the records were full of characters that made little sense. Is there anyway that FMP can use Access files? Thanks.

2 Terminal users are running FM Pro 5.5v2 User A log's off from the server The Filemaker Session of User B Closes. They have got a Windows 2000 Server Client Access License and a FM VLA. Please does anyone have any ideas why this is happening?.

Greetings, We have a Win2K server box (our main domain controller) running terminal service. Users from remote offices use FMP 5.0v3 in terminal service to connect to our databases. This setup is faster than directly connecting to our FMP server and it's been working perfectly for almost a year now. A little while ago we started getting the following message : "The instruction at "0x77805ce7" referenced memory at "0x00213000". The memory could not be "read". Click on OK to terminate" The error message sometimes pops up when opening the first database, sometimes when trying to create a new record after all the databases are open and sometimes …

We are currently using FileMaker Pro 5.0v3 over Citrix Metaframe XP. In one of the forms, we have a button set up to run a script (Open URL) when it is clicked. It actually opens a folder on the network (e.g., servernamefolderfolder). If you were to use this feature running FileMaker directly from your computer, there is no problem and the folder opens right up. If you try this while running FileMaker via a Citrix session, you get the following errors (see the Word doc attached for screenshots) 1) ICA Seamless Host Agent: You have started Windows Explorer in your ICA seamless session. This will obscure your local Explorer desktop. To re-enable this ICA seamle…

How can I compress filemaker files on a Linux box?

I've been testing out serving our FileMaker solution to some WAN clients via Microsoft Terminal Server and have encountered a problem with one of the database's features that allows users to copy field data from one record into another using a button-activated script. Perhaps someone who understands the way FileMaker interacts with Terminal Server better than I do can shed some light on what is happening here. When users use FileMaker via Terminal Services invoke the script (which exports the field data without dialog and then imports into the new record), they receive the error message "Temp could not be created on this disk. Use a different name, make more room o…

I am working on an Apple Mac G3 running filemakerPro 5.5 on OS9.2.1 I am trying to open a databse running filemaker 5.5 server on a linux host networked server. I have placed the database and related database in the /var/fmserver directory. I have installed the Server Administration plug-in and restarted both systems. As far as I can see (with my limited knowledge) everything is set up correctly but when I go into the Remote Administration dialogue box the database name is not listed. When I click on Open File in the Remote Administration dialogue box both the database and the related database are present but when I double click on them I get an error message …

Here is my problem, hoping to explain with my poor English. I act habitually in hosting on AIX environment: every company approaches its databases on our servers; every company has a certain number of users who approach the same database (i.e. the 20 users of the company A at the same time approach the files of the company A, 15 users of the B company approach the files of the B company, and so on). On a single server I can accommodate several companies. Now we have acquired a solution developed with FM 5.5 (approximately 120 files) for the integrated management of the Quality System; this usually works on networks with FM server. We would want to o…

I am running filemaker unlimited behind an apache server running on linux using the Web Server Connector. I want the Web Server Connector to automatically start with the linux machine, but I cannot seem to do it.

I've successfully installed fmserver 5.5 on a redhat linux box and it seems fast and stable. However when started fmserver won't automatically launch the databases in /var/fmserver directory. I've checked permissions on the files and they are fine. It will only open the files when I run the command 'fmserverd open /var/fmserver/*' Does anyone have any ideas how I can get the autostart databases feature working?

What is the best platform for FileMaker server 5 to work on: Mac os 9.1, OS X, Windows NT?

I'm not familiar with Citrix, but my client wants to host the database off of a Citrix server and Windows NT. My question - It appears taht through the use of Citrix, each client that connects will not have to have a copy of FileMaker Pro locally installed and go through the standard process of specifying the host. I would also assume that global fields do not work the same way since they are not actually on the users machine. Also - it appears that only the FileMaker Executible can be served and then each user musst go through the process of finding the aactual data files to open. We tried publishing the actual data files instead of the application and it didn't wo…

Is it possible to have filemaker functionality on a linux based server? My current hosting provider is linux based and I would like to add a filemaker database to my page. If anyone has any knowledge of this process (if possible) I would appreciate it. ------------------ Thanks for your time, Talk you soon Barry

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IS anyone out there using Citrix for their Filemaker Pro applications?

I've installed Filemake Pro 5 onto a terminal server by following the instructions for a network install (by editing Fmpro5.pdf file). The problems is that all terminal server user look the same when using FMPro 5 remote admin. Is there a way to see the login user name when they open up FMPro 5 on terminal server, other than having to re-install the software individually for each user? regards, Echo

When running some complex database searches, and other complex FM functions, the Citrix client seems to lock-up, when regular PC network connections work just fine. Anyone else experience Citrix/FM problems? ------------------ Rob Fisch Kaz, Inc. [email protected]

We've mixed platform environment which includes a number of Mac in the field. We considering Citrix as a possibility to increase FMP performance for our field personnel with analog connections. The question I've been ask to research is, Citrix's long term committment to the Mac platform. Anyone with info can email me at [email protected] TIA

FileMaker Pro isn't available for Linux yet. I think a MacOS-X version has been anounced though.

Any one know how to beef up the colors on Citrix? The end users only get 256 colors.

Has anyone updated to Apache 1.3.12 and then tried to get the FMWSC Module to load. I'm having trouble, but it could be with my Apache build. Any info would be much appriciated. -a

Has anyone used the FMP Unlimited Web Server Connector on Mac OS X Server? If so did you get it to work with the Web Security DB? I keep getting 200, and 304 errors in my Access.log (Unlim. on OS 8.6). Also does anyone with soem UNIX experience know how I can get the WSC to automatically launch on startup? thanks, -arin

I am using Metaframe on NT4.0 with FileMaker Pro 4.0. I have published my app to open up .fp3 file. I can get FileMaker to open on Client workstations but I can't get them to open the same file???

Anyone know if Web Objects can be used in conjunction with Mac OS X Server (Running Apache) and FMP 5 Unlimited? -Arin

Has anyone had any success seting up the FM Unlimited Web Connector with OS X running Apache and SSL?

Whats the reason that FMWSC does not support multiple cookies on one page? What is that all about?

Can anyone tell me if they have had any issues deploying Filemaker Pro via; Cytrix? I would be interested to know of any problems on both PC & Mac Platforms.