Filemaker & Deployment

[mhari]

Hi

I will be having the below doubt in filemaker,

1. In Visual Basic or other microsoft application, once we finished the coding development

We create setup and install the same in the client place, so that they not required VB there

whether this possibility available in filemaker ?

I want to create a application in filemaker and wants to install this in the non-filemaker client machine.

Help me -- Hari

Thanks in advance

[Søren Dyhr]

You can make runtimes with the copy of FM8.5 adv you write you can lay your hands on... But standalones can't network. This means that you either migrate your filemaker proto type into say MySQL or similar via this tool:

http://www.fmpromigrator.com/products/fmpro_migrator/index.html

Or...Serve the entire solution as IWP/CWP:

http://www.filemaker.com/downloads/pdf/techbrief_fm8_webpub.pdf

This would require of your users that they access the solution, via a webbrowser. But you can build taylored browsers via this:

http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/april/issue24/newsletter1.php

...in order to optain the touch and feeling of a real appliction at each workstation, plus the buttons and scrollbars follow the individual OS the user might be accessing the solution with.

But such solutions are bound to be planned carefully, and alone the development time is not for the faint hearted. While if you buy enough filemaker licenses, can tinker once and a while to tighten inconveninences and expand the solution ad hoc, if you should wish to ...not that planning could be avoided completely - but by having enough licenses are you not forced to learn and master every trick in a hurry!

In my huble opinion is it penny wise pound foolish not to by enough licenses, since the cost of developing a standalone networked solution is very very expensive!

--sd