On 2010 Jun 9, at 17:18, Nicholas Geti wrote: > I am coming to the end of maintenance. My client wanted two features which I > have finished up. It is a big system and not well written. So I suspect that > it will not be simple to upgrade to v11.0. From what I have experienced just > moving my changes to a live system was pain enough. I would have to convert > the entire system before my client could start using it again. > > I thought that fixing this system would be straightforward because the FMP > language is rather simple in concept but so simple that doing anything became > very painful. For example, I did a cross-tab feature from scratch. Most > commercial systems already have a cross-tab built-in and they are easy to > use. Mine worked well but it is not generic and I doubt anyone could figure > it out if any changes are needed. > > I find it difficult to keep straight which table carries which script and > have to fuss when passing globals back and forth. This is a highly error > prone technique and should not even exist. >
Nicholas, you sound like a walking advertisement for Database Design Report. Does that feature even exist in your version of FMP?
