Peter Another concern about upgrading you and not the users would be you using a TAB control and them seeing it in FM7 - where it cannot exist, so doesn't and all the fields and objects on all the tabs end up in an unsightly mess.
Stephen ---- "Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost." --- Mary C. Taylor On Oct 1, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Peter Kilcoyne wrote: > Hi Folks: > > I have been putting off upgrading my FMP 8.5 advanced because of the > uncertainty that my department might switch to a completely different project > management software. But now I'm told that the FMP database will continue to > be used and over the summer we will be installing FMP Server so that more > people can have access to the database. > > Great news for me after many years of hard work developing the database. Now > comes the question of how high I should go from 8.5? I just read on > Filemakers web site that they will no longer support or produce v8 or v8.5, > so it makes even more sense to upgrade. > > My users are on PCs and I am on a Mac Pro OS X. My system will upgrade this > month to the latest version of MacPro or iMac that is available. But most of > my users will not and I believe they are using FMP v7. So which version would > you recommend I upgrade to? > > TIA, > Peter
