Can a runtime connect to a server?

[MaxB.]

Hello, I have an inventory database on Filemaker Server 10. I am hoping to make a runtime solution that would act as a register program. Can I have this update my inventory database?

[Manjit Behera]

No,

you can't able to do so as during the run-time creation you need to select the files and there is no any option to select the server files. Secondly the run-time are no more pure database files so they cannot be host through the FM server.

 

 

Thanks,

Manjit

[Wim Decorte]

Manjit is correct that a runtime can not connect to hosted files or be the host.

 

But FileMaker Server DOES have the capability to host runtime files.  There is a configuration option under "Database Server" to register and host runtime files.  When you do that, only clients with a copy of FM can access the files, runtime copies still can not access the hosted runtime files.

For all intents and purposes, hosted runtime files are just like ordinary hosted filemaker files.

[comment]

I am hoping to make a runtime solution that would act as a register program. Can I have this update my inventory database?

 

Your thread title says: "Can a runtime connect to a server?" The answer to this question is probably no.

 

Then you have a completely different question in the body. Can you have a runtime solution out in the field collecting data and then get this data into the served solution? Sure you can.

[MaxB.]

I was kind of hoping that it would update in realtime.

[comment]

Why don't you use Web publishing, then?