RM Management and FileMaker

[Mac Lad]

Does anyone know how to import data from a RM Management Integris Database to FIleMaker. If I am to export files from Integris first, it only gives me the option to export as .XML or ,CSV. Is this a easy procedure?

[Fenton]

"Easy" is in the eye of the developer. FileMaker certainly supports both .csv and .xml. Which you use depends on several factors. The main one is: Will the export from the other database always have the same fields (columns, whatever)? If so, then .csv is probably the easiest.

If not, then you should probably go with .xml, which is a lot more trouble to set up, but which is a heck of a lot smarter than .csv. In .xml each piece of data is "labelled," so you don't have to have a fixed order (though you do have to define columns for each possible field).