Portal application that works with Filemaker???

[Philip Sommers]

OK, so Sharepoint Services doesn't work with Filemaker Server Advanced. We are starting to look for a replacement for Sharepoint Services that does more than just Microsoft products. Does anyone know of a portal application that DOES work with FSA?

Edited March 27, 2007 by Guest

[Genx]

Sorry, to what particular end... i.e. what are you trying to achieve?

[Philip Sommers]

We are trying to create a one-stop, web-based collaboration area for our organization (see post #185069). It will include spreadsheets, Word documents, Filemaker databases, etc. I have been tasked with integrating all of our Filemaker databases into the portal (or die trying). The requirement is a single sign-on to access everything (domain groups), including the FMP databases. I am also in the process of converting our all of our FMP 6 databases to FMP 8.5. I have been told by Management that if I want to "save" Filemaker, make it go through the portal.

We are currently developing a Sharepoint portal for the portal application, but Sharepoint doesn't want to work with anything but Microsoft products. There is the additional thorny problem that the Filemaker web publishing engine and Sharepoint services cannot coexist on the same server. The problem seems to be related to ISAPI redirection. We have tried creating two different web sites on the same server, but to no avail. Putting them on different servers defeats our single sign-on requirement.

As of yesterday, we are starting to look for something to replace Sharepoint with that will better suit our needs (i.e, work with more than just other Microsoft products).

I plan on using IWP or custom web publishing to get the databases into the portal. Management would like the ability to "crawl" the databases with the portal search engine, but this might be a bit too much to ask.

Edited March 27, 2007 by Guest

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Take a look at the FM.Net classes for FileMaker at Wim Decorte's web site at http://www.connectingdata.com.

Steven