Hello!

We run filemaker Server Advanced 7 for 3 weeks per year at our college to facilitate our course registration and our Quality Management. Absolute low tech DBs. We run them on an eMac wit 1GB RAM running 10.4.2.

Everything works fine, except that we have to break apart theclasses to register on different days because of FM-server Advances limit on 100 concurrent log-ons. I've tried setting up a proxy Server and setting this in front of the FM Server, but to no avail.

Granted, I did this before we actually had FM Server Advanced running - did it with a normal client version. It worked just fine until user 101 logged on - then the entire web engine froze while the DB underneath was still running. Data corruption galore from people frozen in the middle of registering for courses with the result that in one view (teachers' class list) the course was empty and in the students' view it was full (of people caught in the middle of registering. fortuantely only one tacher had any trouble.

Last year, as stated, we split the studnets, and it worked ok, but it's a pain to have to do this. We should be able to have all our 200 studnets regsiter at once. Is there a way to accomplish this (a non-rocket-science-way)?

Is this done with Instant Web Publishing? If yes, do you free the sessions when the student logs out with an Exit Application script step?

It is also possible to add more web publishing engines to the server (e.g. on different web servers). For this, you have to add FMS7A licenses to FM Server. It's best you contact FMI directly to inquire if such (100+ web licenses) exist.

Try using Custom Web Publishing without sessions. That way you won't trip up on the 100 session limit. You will need more RAM and a real server for this of course.

Steven