Greetings all,
I work in a primarily Mac environment (yes i
know..pray for me). The organization has a database in FileMaker Pro 5 (on
Mac of course) that is mission critical (I bet you already know what Im going to
ask). The first time I tried to access it 2 summers ago from CF which sits
I think this has been discussed in another list where I subscribe, but their search
archive function
is broken. If you don't mind I'll just forward your question to that list.
Keith Purtell, Web/Network Administrator
VantageMed Operations (Kansas City)
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I wrote the
in-house system and ecommerce site for MacWorks/MacResQ on FMP and Lasso
about 4 years ago:
http://www.macresq.com/store/
so I
definitely feel your pain. I seriously doubt if you'll get CF, or any other
mainstream middleware language, talking with FMP5. Lasso (http://www.bl
Hmmm see at this point I'm almost wondering if this
might be a job for XML maybe? FileMaker Developer 6 touts an XML
capability.
A.
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From:
Ron Hornbaker
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Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:28
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Subject: RE: [KCFusion] Macs..
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Adaryl,
A few
thoughts, try tricking CF & Filemaker. Maybe you can use an MS SQL
odbc driver/connector. Or, maybe you can setup some form of replication or
linking between say, Access or MS SQL and the FileMaker. Then, use CF to
access the new DB.
Can
you just force th
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Get them to upgrade? Sure, but it involves flying
pigs and a backwards rotating earth. No seriously, this thing is the heart of
the organziation. If i were to replicate it it would have to be updated every
minute. But it is something I can look into, at this point Im not tossin
Perhaps. I
haven't worked with FMP6 at all (whew), so things might be totally different
now.
-Ron
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