Hello

Intro: I am trying to get some ideas to this preformance drawback.

Background: I am using FMP Server 7 and FMP pro 7 clients. There are 38 Databases hosted on the Server.

Pluggin: I am using the 24u SimpleHelp plugin - this generates Help Tags for a Layout.

Problem: To implement the Help Tags, they have to be set on each layout of each database. Now we are trying to utilize FMP 7 advantage of not opening all databases on opening. However, the 24u Simple Help pluggin requires the file to be opened and run to attach the Help Tags. This is a huge preformance issue on start up. Right now each Database attaches the Help Tags on the opening script. Start up with only 8 Databases (15 plus layouts on each database) is about 90 secs. This horrible!

Question: Is there anyway to have the FMP Server 7 attach the Help Tags, so when the clients log in the opening script will not have to run.

Understanding: My understanding is that FMP Server 7 host the files closed, is this correct.

Thanks for any help !

Travis Ferreira

FMS does not 'pre-process' the files, the client opens them and runs the opening scripts.

This sounds more like a plugin issue than a FileMaker issue. Did you talk to 24U about this?