Looking for some advice

[jhomer]

In our current environment we are running 8.5 advanced clients with 8 server advanced. Id really like to move to 9 ASAP to take advantage of the new features, however due to time constraints I wont be able to upgrade our server to 9 for a few months.

Is it ok to move the clients to 9 advanced while still running 8 server? any possible got yahs with this set up? (If i remember correctly there were some issues running 8 client with 7 server but i don't remember the specifics) Is this an acceptable practice? I haven't been able to find much information on this.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Ender]

That should be fine. But unless your clients do their own development, they won't need the Advanced version. Just give them regular FileMaker Pro 9.

[Vaughan]

The big gotcha with FMP 9.0 is the change made to relationships: blank match fields no longer match anything.

This has broken a couple of systems for me, but it's generally not hard to fix (I just added "X" to the end of the multikey so it was no longer empty).

[jhomer]

Thanks guys. I have a pretty ridged process I go through when we do an upgrade to limit the surprises so I'll make sure to double check for the empty matched fields.

Just as an FYI Ender, I deploy the advanced version of the product to the users to help me when I need to trouble shoot something. I can log in as an admin at their station and they can walk me through the problem and I still have all my developer tools. I've found that to be very usefull.

[Ender]

I deploy the advanced version of the product to the users to help me when I need to trouble shoot something. I can log in as an admin at their station and they can walk me through the problem and I still have all my developer tools. I've found that to be very usefull.

Well, I wouldn't do it. Aside from the increased cost per seat, it introduces a possibility of some user causing mischief by running tools or the debugger.

If I need to troubleshoot an account, I can do so from my computer (this is made easier in FM9).