Converting to FMP7

[Sanjay]

Hi Everyone,

I have been working on Filemaker Pro 5 version and now we would like to move ahead to Filemaker Pro 7. Could you please share your experience in the conversion process. I have already downloaded the pdf's available(migration, converting, server upgrade, security etc). I started the conversion process slowly and I found that it would be much better to rewrite the code instead of converting the old files to use the one file and may tables feature in filemaker pro 7. I have 10 fp5 file and each has minimum 300 fields. Can you suggest the most fastest way to convert the files to tables in filemaker pro. I can prepare the layout again but how to transfer the field definitions etc. Creating 300 fields would be definitely time consuming.

Thanks to take out your time.

Waiting for reply

--Sanjay

[Ano Nimus]

Take a look at the tools offered by www.newmillennium.com, they will at least relieve you of the painstaking work of retyping all the field names and definitions.

[transpower]

Use FM Migrator. Be sure that your filenames do not have spaces! Be sure to set up ODBC correctly!