FileMaker Go Deployment Solution

[Safari-ID]

Developing with FM 13 advanced is fun

Hosting on FileMaker Server is wonderful

Accessing with Filemaker Go is exciting

Trying to Deploy a FileMaker solution to Go users

Is impossibly Impossible.

The engineers at FileMaker Dropped the ball

It's a iOS issue excuse.

Bull Turkey.

Until there is a FileMaker App Store

Or a FileMaker Go Lite that can be configured

With the FileMaker Host imbedded and can be uploaded to the AppStore or something

We are stuck like Chuck

Hopefully Apple will come to the rescue

With iOS 8

Please and soon

[jbante]

Can you be more specific about the difficulty you're having? Plenty of us on the forum have deployed plenty of applications to FileMaker Go, and may have found ways to cope with whatever problem you're running into. However much of a pain in the butt in can seem, deploying a FileMaker Go solution is a whole lot easier than deploying to the iOS App Store.

[Rgordon]

I have over 1000 FMGO users and have never had a problem deploying fmgo solutions. Installations and updates are fairly easy to do. I personally have little interest in putting my solutions on the App Store.

[Safari-ID]

I have a FileMaker database hosted

My issue is I have stores that would like to

Have access to the database

I want them to have a place to download

A configuration file that has the

FMP URL to the host.

I read somewhere I could build a app

And all the so does is

Hyperlink when touched to the FMP URL

After downloading fm go

[jbante]

It sounds like you're describing the FileMaker Go App Maker (free TechNet membership required). The "App Maker" doesn't really make an app, just an iOS profile with a link into FileMaker Go that appears to iOS users as a home screen icon, like when you save a bookmark from iOS Safari to the home screen. Apple also has an iOS configuration utility that should enable you to accomplish the same thing. To get the profile on to your users' devices, you have to either email it to them, send them to a web page for them to download it, plug the devices into a computer and load it directly, or register the devices with an MDM service and push it to them.

[FileMakerSonderbach]

Hello,

I have the same problem: I now have a nice solution working on FileMaker Pro, but how can I deploy this to friends, business partners, customers?

 

Its odd that my possible customers do have to go through several steps:

- download filemaker go from app store

- download my FM file

- transfer per iTunes to device

 

Is there a better way?

 

Thanks!

 

best regards,

Ralf

[Rick Whitelaw]

There is a better way. Host the file on FMS. Customer downloads FM Go and connects to the hosted file. That way there's no need to send out updates every time your solution changes, no iTunes, no sync.