The massively improved permissions system (one of the client version’s killer features) gives control over who has access to which files, and for what purpose. For the deeply nerdy, an fmsadmin command allows basic control of the server from the UNIX command line. Best of all, most settings don’t require a server restart to take effect. The backup folder can be specified, as well as an additional database folder. You can also schedule execution of script files from the scripts folder - it recognises terminal command scripts, AppleScript scripts or applets. You can use it to specify timed execution of backups or scripts: backups are now live, and don’t result in damaged files and ‘Not Closed Properly’ dialogs. Server Admin can be run from any networked machine, and provides a front-end for dealing with served files and clients - showing what’s open, who’s using it, and on which IP address. If you’re familiar with OS X Server’s admin tools, or can remember FMPro Server 3, then the Server Admin application (which replaces 5.x’s FMServer Config and Remote Access plug-in) will make you feel right at home. Server admin toolsįor old hands, Server 7 reintroduces some keenly awaited features. FileMaker claims performance improvements too, down to better caching techniques, and searches and calculations that can be run at the server end (taking advantage of that nice, shiny multi-processor G5 in the server room). A complete solution will fit into a single file, instead of the 16 files that it took under version 5.x. Remember also that the new version 7 file structure allows for more than one data table per file (in fact as many as you need, limited only by file-size). Server also scales in terms of files - sharing up to 125 files, each storing up to 8TB of data. But there’s a ten-user limit, and you need FMPro running on the host machine all the time.įileMaker Server 7 takes the same files, but makes them available to 250 concurrent, cross-platform users. FileMaker Server and Server Advanced are two such a products.įMPro clients already support peer-to-peer sharing for small networks: turn on Sharing, and suddenly network users can all work on the same file together. But to produce a new version that makes a positive virtue out of upgrading? Time for a chorus of Hallelujahs. To upgrade an already popular product, and not screw it up, is rare enough. One phrase describes the latest additions to FileMaker’s product range: vicariously satisfying. Helping IT since 1993 Linksįilemaker Pro Server & Server Advanced 7.0 Wednesday 3rd November, 2004 Dyce & Sons | Filemaker Pro Server & Server Advanced 7.0 Dyce & Sons Ltd.
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