RE: Filemaker faults to win a bid for using CF

2002-09-25 Thread Trey Rouse
It better be a fairly small application cause it doesn't scale well at all. -Original Message- From: Kodjo Ackah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:00 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Filemaker faults to win a bid for using CF I need some strong points on the

Re: Filemaker faults to win a bid for using CF

2002-09-25 Thread David Fafard
I have used it in the past. The Filemaker application MUST be open as GUI on the target server for it to interact as a web data source. It does ok with simple queries, slows down with large queries and sorting. It ques request one at a time - linear But, if the client already has Filemaker

RE: Filemaker faults to win a bid for using CF

2002-09-25 Thread Mark W. Breneman
Question: Are we talking about using Filemaker as a datasorce or using its Application Server / webserver features in place ColdFusion? I worked with Filemaker 4 when they first added the web stuff. I could never get the hang of it. It had limitations and a few bugs. One bug I can recall was

Re: Filemaker faults to win a bid for using CF

2002-09-25 Thread Dick Applebaum
What version permutation of FileMaker did you use? How did you interface -- Directly from CF or through another DB that connects to FIlemaker? Is there a JDBC interface. TIA Dick On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 10:08 AM, David Fafard wrote: I have used it in the past. The

Re: Filemaker faults to win a bid for using CF

2002-09-25 Thread David Fafard
What version permutation of FileMaker did you use? Last used Filemaker 5.5. How did you interface -- Directly from CF or through another DB that connects to FIlemaker? I used Lasso http://www.blueworld.com but I also messed around with CFMX see:

Filemaker 6 works to CFMX on MAc OS X was Re: Filemaker faults to win a bid for using CF

2002-09-25 Thread Dick Applebaum
Thanks Dave. Your references site gave me most of the info needed to get FM 6.0 working with CFMX on Mac OS X -- this means that you should be able to interface it on any CFMX platform and run them both on any common platform (win, Linux). For the original poster, this means you can use