Hiya,
Anyone tried OpenBase (http://www.openbase.com/) as an alternative?
I'll admit I haven't used it much, but found performance much better
that FMP.
I have seen a very impressive POS made with it, can't recall the name.
Nice thing I noticed was that some functions are available as standard,
whereas they're plugins in FMP (like integrated email for instance,
although basic).
Cheers,
Luis.
On 3 Oct 2007, at 11:01, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
Mark Schonewille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I might start a project that should connect a Revolution front-end to
a FM Pro database. One of the candidates to do this is ODBC. Reading
the archives, I can't help thinking that the combination of ODBC and
FM Pro may not be the best option. Does anyone have good experiences
with ODBC and FM Pro? How easy or difficult is it to accomplish this?
Hi Mark,
We have several installations that routinely extract data from FMP
via ODBC. It
works fine, with a few minor limitations (which may by now have
been dealt with
anyway, these were set up a few years ago). The app itself
routinely extracts
data from various different databases, so the good thing about FMP
via ODBC, as
far as I'm concerned, is that configuring the app in these cases to
extract from
FMP was reasonably trivial. It is necessary to throw a dialog on
screen to tell
the user to make sure that Filemaker is open and has these
databases open.
However, one caveat: for the last 18 months, we've been having
horrendous
problems with one client using this facility. Their database
solution, built
for them in FMP by a third party developer, is the most insanely
architected
I've seen in a long while. Apart from a shudder of disgust, I
didn't think it
would be a problem; but in fact, especially as the client has added
considerably
more data, we've found this impacts on getting the data out over
ODBC. In some
cases it times out; even worse, in some cases it doesn't, but
doesn't return all
the data.
I mostly blame the madmen who so badly designed the database
solution; but the
fact is that it 'works' viewed through FileMaker itself, but fails
in various
ways over ODBC.
So just be aware, that while I don't think you should have a
problem, if you
were to try to connect to an exceptionally badly designed database
(eg one in
which extracting simple items of data required FileMaker to
undertake chains of
calculations) you might run into difficulties.
- Ben
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