jfurness

Just wondered whether anyone has had any experience of how Google indexes Filemaker websites - or not, as the case seems to be!!! It has come to light, after running several Filemaker driven websites that Google isn't able to follow Filemaker generated links to pages. Static pages are indexed just fine, but for some reason Google can not follow dynamic pages. Does anyone know why or how? If you go a search for 'known' text on one of your sites in Google, does it show in Google's search results? Any help would be appreciated since I'll be looking to run these sites from another database solution otherwise :-(

I'm not sure this is possible given the limitation of the FindAny CDML tag but here's what I want to do... I want to pull a random record from the database but want to include specific criteria about which records to be chosen. Anyone know if this is possible? Or does anyone know another way other than to use -FindAny?

I have now taken the bold step of Installing Panther server running Filemaker Pro 6.0 Unlimited. So far looking good for stability, by now I would have expected at least 2 crashes in the four hours it have been running. Not brave enough to say it's fixed just yet though!

hmm, I disagree. We've been having problems with running Filemaker 5.5 and 6.0 for many months now on several servers with a few different versions of Mac OSX, the only time i experienced any reliability was when i was runing OSX10.1 Think you will find that many many other people besides me have had problems too. Not sure why you are the 'chosen' one?! How many hits do your servers get? - just wondered whether there is any correlation between number of hits and reliability.

I plan to upgrade to Panther Server with the latest version of Filemaker 6.0v2 Although i haven't had Filemaker quit unexpectedly since i installed the update (2 days ago) Filemaker has hung twice. Here the databases and the application are open, in fact i can swop between OSX apps and Filemaker, but there is no response at all from Filemaker, force quit and relaunch is the only fix. Might be something to do with vnodes. I do wonder whether the latest FM update works in 5.5, are the web companion plugins written just for FM 6.0? Has anyone tried it?

I keep popping back to this forum in the hope that someone is able to post a solution to this very frustrating and potentially damaging situation. I work at ULTRALAB, a learning technology research lab where we use and have used Filemaker extensively for many web delivered projects. I feel very despondant wth using Filemaker at all now - it just isn't stable yet I continue to plug it's versatility as a web database platform that allows rapid prototyping and development to take place. I am running FM 5.5 Unlimited. In OS X 10.2.6, filemaker unexpectedly quits several times a day. I have even written an AppleScript which checks to see if Filemaker is running (every minute), if it isn't, it launches the FM application and opens all the databases. This works a treat until you discover a corrupt database which needs recovering (happens once every 3 days) The project involves 400 people and the database receives over 1000 page requests a day. I am confident that Filemaker can support this activity - it isn't that much in the scheme of things. In desperation, I have tried many options. I have now moved the databases to an OS 9.2.2 machine. Filemaker now runs for a day and a half without crashing (same no of hits) but it still crashes! Something to note is that once upon a time I did have Filemaker running reliably for months and months using OS X 10.1.5 - not sure why. When I upgraded it all went belly up. I have been in contact with the technical team at Filemaker. They suggest using uncorrupt copies of the databases - as someone said, it's daft cos the databases will just corrupt again. They mentioned the technical people are aware and are writing a patch - somehow i don't believe it - it has been too long already. Any thoughts would be appreciated....

Cheers Keith, I've started to go someway down this road already having discovered how impractical checkboxes are. Your table idea is a really good thought - I had otherwise wondered how to offer the different search criteria in an easy to understand interface - the table might just do that. I think this discussion well answers my original Q. ...it can't be done easily!! Jonathan

tried this too - and the same is true - performs an AND find when searching the same field on the same form. Any more thoughts - please post and I'll try them out. J

... except... when you check two options in a field with multiple options - FileMaker always performs a AND search so always looks for BROWN and BLONDE, not either - even if I use the -LOp tag - unless of course I'm not using it correctly.

I am trying to create a search page which allows the web user to perform a find on a single field but with multiple selection - BUT using an OR statement across that field. i.e Hair Colour, search for people with hair colour BROWN or BLONDE, but not RED ...using check boxes As far as I can tell, filemaker predermines that the search criteria is BROWN and BLONDE - which of course is impossible! :-) Any help much appreciated. J