Filemaker 6 to 7

[simoncpage]

Okay so currently I have a nice fairly tight filemaker 6 database.

1. Is it easy to upgrade this to .fp7 (simple file extension change)

2. Are there any annoying bugs that haven't been iron out yet.

3. I'm looking in to having a palm sync setup so is mobile version of 7 much better?

4. What main benefits am I going to get?

5. I'm currently working on organising the database from a one-to-many to a many-to-many will this version make my life easy for this?

Any help or advice would be nice thanks!

Simon

[Kurt Knippel]

Well, my findings are that the upgrade from 6 to 7 is not the smoothest. What causes the most problems is that workarounds and tricks that we used to implement in 6 are no longer valid in 7 and in some cases do not work as they previously did.

The biggest bugs that I have heard of are with the fuzzyness of the interface, due to the anti-aliasing of the fonts.

Mobile 7 is not out yet, as far as I know. And from my understanding, it is the same functionality as Mobile 2.1, just with a new name.

The feature set of Filemaker 7 makes an upgrade worthwile, but you may want to consider redeveloping from scratch in order to actually take advantage of those new features.