Call them and ask for a discount, doesn't hurt to ask. I purchase directly from FileMaker through a rep for my area.
Will Cooksey Computer Support Specialist University of Arkansas University Information Technology Services [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 479-575-2905 From: FileMaker Pro Discussions [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J. Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 10:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Conversion from 5.5 (!) Will, Lee, Richard, Geoff, Stephen.... Thank you all for your information! I was so sure that I had to transfer it to FM7 and then up. Since not, now I just need to put FMAdvanced for 2-3 users in my budget and move forward. (btw, does that ever go on sale? [doubtful]) Thank you again! Jackie on 1/6/10 10:28 AM, Geoff Graham at [email protected] wrote: On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Stephen Wonfor wrote: > Hi Jackie > > Will and Geoff make good points. Here's a different take on it. > ... > (Adding Refresh Window Steps that convert to Select Window and Exit > Record steps where you need a Commit after a cluster of SetFields) I did forget that the Commit Record script step often has to be sprinkled liberally into converted scripts; the 3rd major gotcha of fp5 - fp7 script conversion. It's the new window model, Jackie, that allows multiple windows to have multiple "current" records. FileMaker 6 and before only allowed one current record in the whole application; a set of scripts that bounced back and forth between files implicitly committed the current record data simply by exiting the script. (mostly) Now these tools the pros recommend; they will help for sure. They will also add a layer of complexity as you see everything you may or may not have wanted to know about your database. If I'm guessing right, you are a power user who has built or maintained their own custom database, learning as you go. As soon as you get to a point, say, where none of your scripts are working and you realize that you need to add a bunch of Commit Records, and it occurs to you that it would be swell if there was a way to spray them into all your scripts automagically; then you are a MetaDataMagic potential customer. At that point you will be able to decide that a dozen or two scripts will take about an hour to update and thus MDM is not worth the $300 to you; or alternatively, that your tangled mess of hundreds scripts is hopeless, that MDM is a huge bargain; and you know exactly what it is that you want it to do for you. Speaking of tools, I would recommend that you get the latest FM Advanced. You really will need the script debugger to step through and test scripts. You don't "have" to have it, in the same way you can rebuild an old Ford engine with only a pair of channel-locks and a screwdriver, but I wouldn't want to do it. Stephen ( and most of these wonderful people ) is a real pro; if anything I have said seems to conflict, then I would go with what he says. :) Btw, nice concise four stepper from Darren there Stephen; that's very handy. Thanks. Geoff ps. Converting an old file, I went to the file references in FM10 to clean those old paths to long forgotten drives, and saw a reference from my old machine to an old external drive I had forgotten about. Aha! That's where that project I worked on years ago is hiding. Now I just need to remember where that old drive is...
