Technical Briefs and White Papers as Invaluable Developer Resources By: Steven H. Blackwell Management Counseling Service Partner Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance FileMaker 7 Certified D

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Technical Briefs and White Papers as Invaluable Developer Resources

By:

Steven H. Blackwell

Management Counseling Service

Partner Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance

FileMaker 7 Certified Developer™

FileMaker 8 Certified Developer™

In this venue and in many other ones in the past six weeks or so, a number of developers and other users of FileMaker Pro have raised a number of questions about the behavior of various members of the FileMaker Family of Products or about their proper deployment. These have ranged from conversion issues from older versions, to external authentication, to record level access privilege behaviors, to proper hardware requirements for FileMaker® Server 8 and FileMaker® Server 8 Advanced.

FileMaker, Inc. and a number of senior developers have over the past three years anticipated many of these questions and issues. As a result, on the corporate website are a number of Technical Briefs and White Papers that cover these matters in rather extensive detail. Written by senior developers, these papers explore from both a conceptual and a technical viewpoint a number of major topics:

FileMaker Server configuration and deployment,

Effective security design and implementation in modern versions of the products,

External Server Authentication of Accounts to aid in identity and Access Management control for FileMaker Pro databases, including those accessed by web publishing, and,

Effective strategies for migration and conversion from older versions of FileMaker Pro, including an extensive analysis of specific issues.

These documents, running in total nearly 300 pages, are invaluable sources of information both for pre-deployment analysis and for post-deployment troubleshooting. I highly commend their reading to all developers, DBA’s, and IT managers with responsibilities for FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server or FileMaker Server Advanced.

See the Tech Briefs and White Papers here.