We are a very small business, usually one of us in and one out of the office. Our client, appointments and project information is held on an FM 8.5 database, which runs on the main office machine and in runtime versions on each of our laptops.
The office machine holds current data and the idea is to update the runtime versions when we go out on the road so I’ve been looking at the easiest and quickest way to do this without having to create a new runtime version each time the main database is updated.
If I understand correctly (and I may not!), rather than the single file holding all layouts, scripts, tables etc. we have at present, I should be separating this into two files, one to hold the regularly changing data and one for the layouts etc. that will only change infrequently.
It’s a lot of work to separate in this way but I’m still new to FM and if I got the basic design wrong I would like to correct it before I go too far.
So, is the best approach to separate as above then transfer current data to the laptops by overwriting existing data files?
Hope that’s clear and I would be grateful for any guidance.
