Setting up Access ODBC

[Zimbo]

Hi Everyone,

I'm a newbie both to the forums and to Filemaker. As with a lot of people on the forums, I'm making a move from MS Access, etc to FMP.

Here's my situation... we're making a move from MS Access and Windows to OSX and FMP. As with every transition, we need to have the ability to use our DB's and apps on both platforms for a while. I'm starting the redevelopment of our systems from Access to FMP but have run into a problem on my windows dev machine... I have setup a system ODBC source pointing to an Access db. I need to link to this DB in real time, using some of the information on one of the tables. When I go to manage database -> relationships and try to specify a table from the datasource, I get the error: The ODBC datasource you have selected is not supported.

I am using the trail version FMP 9. Is this the problem? or are access datasources not supported?

Any help or thoughts would be appreciated.

Many thanks.

George

[Wim Decorte]

No, Access is not a supported "real time" datasource. Only Oracle, SQL Server and mySQL (and specific versions of those).

You can still use the other ODBC functions (like Execute SQL and Import from ODBC source) since those work with any ODBC DSN but not real time data.

[Zimbo]

That's unfortunate. Many thanks for the reply.

Cheers