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Documenting an older system

Rover
in FileMaker Legacy fp3 and fp5

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I just moved into this job and I inherited a FM 4.1 application with 33 databases. The system has been tracked over by my 4-5 predecessors to the point it's really muddied - it's barely half relational any more. frown.gif I'm considering upgrading to the latest & greatest FM, but I'd like to get a handle on what I've got first.

Are there any documentation tools that'll help me out with identifying scripts, layouts, relationships and the rest?

Oh, and does the newest FM have a way to export styled text?

Thanks

Links to all the documentation tools are on

this page at FMFiles.com. Most of them I believe still have 4.x versions available.

FWIW, printing your fields and scripts to PDF files can also be very handy, since they are searchable.

>... a way to export styled text?

No, unless you want to roll your own, i.e. make calculations for HTML formatting, or QXP tags, or RTF etc.

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Fitch

Thanx!

Don't forget FM Developer 5.5 has a analyzer function that might help.

You'll need it to user Analyzer 3.0 as well.

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