joepok

Hey Bankmann, I had a similar experience in converting a huge 110 FP5 solution. After investing $6,200 in a FileMaker 7 upgrade, and spending a gruelling 2 weeks in a partial (11 files) migration process, I was heavily disappointed in the sluggish performance. In fact, after a one day test run with only one user, I went back to the original database... I just couldn't subject 35 users to this degradation in performance. But, the security and relational features are incredible! I am hopeful that perhaps a new Citrix server (our current one is a dual 1 Ghz WIn 2000 Server) may boost the performance enough to go live next week. All in all, it will probably be about a $10,000 investment in software and hardware to upgrade to FP7... a hefty chunk of change for a non-profit... On another note, I bought the MetaData Magic package from New Millenium and used the File Reference Fixer on my FP5 databases before the conversion and this made a nice performance increase (compared to the non-fixed conversion). It seems that if the File References aren't fixed first, FP7 spends a bunch of time looking through various file reference options. See Ya Joe

Thanks Jon, I had better luck using your keywords in Google and found the very awesome Events 4.0 at http://wmotion.com/events.html

Hey All, I know there are plug-ins that allow a script to be performed or triggered when a field is exited. Does I thought I read that FP7 would have this ability. Does it? Thanks Joe

Thanks! At least now I can move forth boldly in the re-scripting/ migration process. See Ya Joe

Hey All, The new "Specify Find Requests" option in FMP7 allows the manual entry of static search criteria, is there a way to search on a global value. For instance, I want the user to enter the a SS # through a CUstom Dialog in a gloabal field, then pass this info to the FInd script using the "Specify FInd Requests". Is this possible. I know how to do it with a scripted "Enter Find Mode"=> "Insert Calculated Result" =>Perform Find, but I thought maybe there was a new possibility here... Thanks