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Hi Folks, Hope everyone's well... We have to upgrade our old servers so Im trying to install FM server 17 on a new Windows 22 server .. and it wont install .. Just keeps throwing up this message even though we've copied the license info to the install folder.. I know the spec says Fm server 17 isnt supported on Windows 22 server but all the old filemakers in the past said the same but worked perfectly anyway .. Anyone know any workarounds on how to get this installed? Any help would be great appreciated Many Thanks & Best Regards D

Thanks, The Round function should work fine... I think I was making this more complicated than it really is ... Thanks again for your assistance Regs Dermot

Thanks, I want to round the discounted unit price to 3.49 ... (not just have the field show it as 3.49 when set to 2 decimal places). it currently shows as 3.485 when you enter the field but I need this to actually round to 3.49 .. then everything else will work 100% whats the best way to do this? Thanks Dermot

Hi Folks, I have a rounding issue which is probably very easy to solve if you know the correct function, which unfortunately I dont !! We have a quoting database ... The system allows discounts so if something is £10.25 at list and they get 66% discount then the unit price after discount would actually be £3.485 but its rounded up to £3.49 and displays as per below.... e.g. Product Code Unit Price Discount Unit Price after discount Qty Line Price (after discount) Product A 10.15 66% 3.49 1 3.49 Product A 10.15 66% 3.49 2 6.97 As you can see the second option when we have a Qty of 2, show the line price not equal to "2 x unit price after discount" ... I guess the rounding would need to be applied to the “Unit Price after discount” and the system would need to show this as £3.49 and if the qty is 2 then the line price needs to show £6.98 and not £6.97. All advice will be very welcome and much appreciated folks Many Thanks in advance Regs Dermot

Thanks Guys, Custom web publishing may indeed be the way to go but I guess it still doesn't allow them to work offline.. Im thinking we may need to do a combination of things like:- 1/ Have a solution to push data, that the windows phone user needs, to theirs phones into some kind of windows app .. 2/ Allow the user to edit/create records on that app and have it send the info back to the server when the phone has a signal 3/ Then filemaker sucks that info back into the database.. Im sure someone has done something like this but I just cant find any examples ?? Cheers Dermot

Thanks R Woods, Just had a look at these and you're correct , they all seem to refer to Filemaker Go,. I'd love to hear of anyone who has done something similar with Windows phones ... Hmmm, the search goes on !! Thanks again Dermot

Hi Folks, We have a fairly heavy duty Filemaker system with a volume license currently running FM Server 14 and FM14 and will probably upgrade to V15 soon. There are approx 60-70 PC users from 3 different sites logged on at any one time and all works great ... However, they now want their salesreps to be able to view filemaker info on their phones and also to edit/create records and send back to filemaker ... This is all obviously very easy with Filemaker Go, but the problem is that they use Windows phones and do NOT wish to change to iPhones :-( ..... So we started looking at Webdirect which seems to be the real deal in FM15 ... but alas this wont work either because they need something which will work "offline" ... So, I thought I'd come and see if anyone has a solution to this or even any ideas on what we could do here ? Again, any help would be "greatly" appreciated Many Thanks Dermot

Hi Wim, Lee and all ... The update to this issue above is that no matter what we did it made no difference .. until .. we moved everyone up to the FM14 app ... Once we installed FM14 on the XenApp 6.5 servers, everything went much much faster with no lags and basically everything worked a treat .. well almost, we then started having issues with creating emails from filemaker in outlook which had to be resolved by updating outlook to the 64bit version .. it had to be comparable to the 64bit FM14.. Anyway, thanks folks for the info above .. just thought Id let you know what happened in the end.. Cheers Dermot

Thanks Wim, you've been a big help ... I'll forward this info to their IT & Citrix folk right away. Cheers again Dermot

p,s. as far as im aware NO files build up

Hi Wim et al .. The Citrix guy has just sent this message to IT.... (Katie is one of the "heavy use" slow machines) "I am currently going through all of the XA servers and backing up Katie’s profiles, these are taking a while to copy out and check for temporary files. These are almost all checked and backed up, if you could ask Filemaker if there is a particular type of file which builds up? Also where it is by default? Those answers would be much appreciated." Again, any info much appreciated Thanks Dermot

I meant to say Wim, that it doesn't seem to be affecting any of their other programes .. just Filemaker !! Reg Dermot p.s. Still waiting on the Citrix experts to com e back to us..

Hi Wim, Yes I totally agree and "hopefully" their Citrix providers will come to the same conclusion .. They are evaluating the situation today and I will let you know what the outcome of that is.. Thanks again Dermot

I Will .. The response I got back from their IT was as follows... "I would agree it might be citrix apart from the fact that if two people sign in, one a new account and the other an old account ( citrix setup exactly the same ) then the experience is different when using filemaker. (the new account is fast and the old account is slow) We have tried on both Citrix Xen app and Citrix Desktop." Thanks Dermot

Hi Wim, Thanks for the response .. They seem to think Citrix is not the problem but I cant see how it isnt .. They are talking to their Citrix provider tomorrow so hopefully there will be some light shed on this.. Regs Dermot

Hi Folks, Hope you're all keeping well !! Not sure where else to post this so here goes .. We have a database being served to >100 users from a VM machine and served using Citrix XenApp 6.5 We use Filemaker server advanced 12 and filemaker pro 12 ... The issue in question, which only started 2 weeks ago is as follows:- Users who are using the Filemaker database every day are experiencing slowness when they log on through their own Citrix account and then go into filemaker .. From that same PC, if they then log on to Citrix with another users account (who doesn’t use filemaker regularly) and then go into filemaker (again with their own password) it is very fast.. Very strange I know but I was wondering if Filemaker is caching a lot within citrix somewhere or what else it could be :-/ .. just cant think of a good reason for this to be happening ?? Filemaker have recommend moving to v13 or v14 as they "officially" support XenApp 6.5 but I dont think this is the problem as its been working with the same software 100% now for almost a year .. the problems only started a couple of weeks ago and no one is sure why .. Also, the IT folk say there have been no changes/additions to the setup. Any thoughts or ideas will be much appreciated folks Thanks Dermot

Yeah I was thinking the same but you never know I suppose

Hi Folks, Im working on a quotation system for a manufacturing company .. Currently they receive drawings in both electronic and paper format .. these may have typed or hand written instructions on them regarding the bill of quantities which engineers would then read & type into the filemaker database creating the required quote for the customer. The manufacturing company would like it if there was some OCR/ICR facility to scan these documents and then automatically populate the filemaker database quote with the scanned details? Im not sure if there is a good enough OCR/ICR solution out there but I was just wondering if anyone on here has done this type of thing before or if there was a plugin etc.. and how successful it was? Any info would be greatly appreciated folks !! Thanks Dermot

Hi Folks, Hope someone can help here ! Yesterday, I installed fm server 5.5 on a customers win 2000 server (they won't upgrade as their software is sufficient)and then realised that the C drive was too small and decided to uninstall it and re-install on the d drive which had more room. For some reason it wouldn't uninstall properly and when I tried to re-install it it would only let me repair and not istall it clean on the d drive.... So, I decided to try and remove all references to Filemaker server from the registry..... Now, when I try ot install fm server I get a message saying "The configuration data for this product is corrupt - Contact your support personnel" Nightmare ! I was hoping someone knew if there was some way to get fm server installed back on the server - possibly some registery tweek or something - I'm at a loss ! Cheers folks if anyone can help !

Hi Folks, An old client of ours has FMPro version 3 running off version 3 server on Windows ! I made a few small changes to their database and compressed a 480 meg file down to 350 or so once I was finished making the changes ! Now they get the following message on 2 of their 10 guest PC's - same 2 PC's all the time: "Filemaker pro caused an exception 10H in module Filemaker pro.exe at 017f:050582d2" Then filemaker crashes - It doesn't happen when they browse - just when they go to create a new record or something ! I can't see how it can be anything to do with the database - Then surely all the PC's would get the same fault !..............I was thinking it must be some networking issue - But it did start happening right after I altered & compressed the database ! Any help here would be much appreciated folks ! Thanks in advance !

Hi Folks, An old client of ours has FMPro version 3 running off version 3 server on Windows ! I made a few small changes to their database and compressed a 480 meg file down to 350 or so once I was finished making the changes ! Now they get the following message on 2 of their 10 guest PC's - same 2 PC's all the time: "Filemaker pro caused an exception 10H in module Filemaker pro.exe at 017f:050582d2" Then filemaker crashes - It doesn't happen when they browse - just when they go to create a new record or something ! I can't see how it can be anything to do with the database - Then surely all the PC's would get the same fault !..............I was thinking it must be some networking issue - But it did start happening right after I altered & compressed the database ! Any help here would be much appreciated folks ! Thanks in advance !

Hi Folks, An old client of ours has FMPro version 3 running off version 3 server on Windows ! I made a few small changes to their database and compressed a 480 meg file down to 350 or so once I was finished making the changes ! Now they get the following message on 2 of their 10 guest PC's - same 2 PC's all the time: "Filemaker pro caused an exception 10H in module Filemaker pro.exe at 017f:050582d2" Then filemaker crashes - It doesn't happen when they browse - just when they go to create a new record or something ! I can't see how it can be anything to do with the database - Then surely all the PC's would get the same fault !..............I was thinking it must be some networking issue - But it did start happening right after I altered & compressed the database ! Any help here would be much appreciated folks ! Thanks in advance !

Hi There, When I get fields printing over the top of something else the first thing I look at is the alignment of the field - Check if the fields that are printing funny have the same alignment (e.g. left aligned) as the fields that are printing OK ! Sounds simple but you can get caught out by it ! Dermot

Hi Stanley & all ! It did show the footer in preview mode but still didn't print it out ! But the good news is that I finally got it sorted out - I had to make the footer about 5 times bigger than the total of the header & body size ! Looks mad in layout mode but it works 100% after another bit of fiddling about with the exact size - The crazy thing is that I was just about to go and tell them to buy a new dot matrix (different model) when I dragged the footer way down - Never thought it would work but it did ! Anyway folks - Thanks for your help and I'll speak to you again no doubt ! Cheers Dermot

Hi Folks, I went back to the client with the problems today - I actually spent quite a bit of time and used Stanleys suggestion of decreasing the font size which worked fine (after a lot of trial & error) However the bloody thing won't print the footer :: Can't understand it for the life of me - Prints the header & body fine but will NOT print the footer (I even created a new layout - won't print the footer there either ! Anyway - One bit of good news is that they want to buy a new dot matrix anyway - Can anyone suggest a good Fast dot matrix which will work 100% with Win 98 client PC's and Fileaker 5.5 ?? A definate answer here would be great ! Thanks folks Dermot