Installing MBS Plugin on Windows into FileMaker Pro

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Let's say you like to install the MBS FileMaker Plugin on your Windows PC for FileMaker Pro.

Download

First you download our MBSPlugin.zip from our website.

For Windows you pick the zip file. The dmg is there for macOS. The download may take a while.

You open the zip archive and there you find a folder with the Windows plugin and inside the MBS.fmx64 file, the one with the colorful icon.

Extensions folder

The plugin is installed into the extension folder. Please go to Settings in FileMaker Pro to open the settings dialog. For this please use the menu command:

And then you see this dialog:

Inside the dialog, please go to the Plug-ins tab. There you see no plugin in the list yet. But there is a button to reveal the plug-ins folder.

e.g. C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\FileMaker\FileMaker Pro\22.0\Extensions\

Please copy the MBS.fmx64 file into this extensions folder. Then this version of FileMaker Pro can use the plugin.

If you have multiple versions of FileMaker Pro, you can use a different extensions folder two levels higher up:

e.g. C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\FileMaker\Extensions\

Only install the plugin either in the per-version or the global folder for all versions. Please avoid having the plugin twice by putting it in both folders.

Plugin loaded

Now start FileMaker Pro again. Go to the settings dialog into the plug-ins tab and check whether FileMaker loaded the plugin.

If it doesn't load the plugin, please check the troubleshooting list: Why MBS Plugin fails to load.

Below the list, you see the plugin information with the version information.

Click the configuration button to open the preferences dialog:

Enter license

When you buy a license, you get the license email with the details to enter.

You can copy the text with the license and paste it in one of the fields and the plugin splits it into the five fields for you:

"Christian Schmitz"; "Complete"; "5 Seats"; 202612; "KR0...mjKUgJ="

After you click the Register button, the license key is saved.

Automation

The steps above are good if you have a few machines. But if you need to install the plugin on more, you may check out the script step to install a plugin: