Filemaker ODBC Driver

[ANNE WILKINSON]

Hi can anyone help?

I am trying to export data from filemaker pro to a Windows XP machine, and can't find an ODBC driver to do this. Can anyone point me in the right direction please

Thanks

Anne

[yehonatan]

On my Filemaker CD it is located at:

D:xDBCODBC Client Driver Installer

(where D is the cd-rom drive)

I'm just trying to understand how to get this ODBC stuff to work too -(.

[Blackadder]

Any pointers on how I can get that driver to appear in the ODBC Driver list after it is installed would be a bonus.

[ANNE WILKINSON]

Thanks for this, unfortunately I don't have a Filemaker CD, I have downloaded an eval version from their website, and need the driver to link to other ODBC compliant software

[yehonatan]

Sorry... this won't be a direct answer to ur question, but it looks like the main documents to rely on for installing the odbc drivers are:

http://www.filemaker.com/downloads/pdf/fm7_odbc_jdbc_install.pdf

http://www.filemaker.com/downloads/pdf/fm7_odbc_jdbc_developer.pdf

Inspite of being called "Filemaker 7 ODBC and JDBC Developer's Guide" it is also for Filemaker Pro 7 and Filemaker Server 7. The first guide is also helpful for Filemaker Pro 7.

Also if the driver is installed correctly, then you can view more documentation by going Start->All Programs->DataDirect SequeLink for ODBC 5.4

And then clicking on "Driver Help".

Hope this helps, I'm going through this documentation now.

[yehonatan]

I just ran into same problem... and I realize my previous post wasn't any help :.

Anyways, I was able to see the "DataDirect 32-BIT SequeLink 5.4" driver after installing MDAC 2.80 (and this may have caused it to work just b/c it forces a reboot... which was also on my todo-list to try to fix the problem). To find this go to www.microsoft.com and search for "MDAC".

Let me know how it goes.