You can use Open Remote to open a database on your own computer as long as another copy of FileMaker Pro on your own computer (perhaps FileMaker Pro Advanced) has opened it. (Sharing databases with FileMaker Pro is possible on a small scale, but performance significantly improves with dedicated hardware resources and FileMaker Server.)Īlthough the most common scenario involves sharing databases across a network or the Internet, other configurations are possible. The same applies to users of FileMaker databases connecting through ODBC or the Web: They are connecting to the copy of FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Server that has the database open. Only one copy of FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Server can attach to the actual database file at a given time all other users (if any) attach to that copy of FileMaker. Use the Open Remote File dialog to open a database on a LAN, in a corporate domain, or (with a proper IP address) across the Internet. You can use the Open command to navigate to any database file to which you have access-whether it is on your own computer, somewhere else on your network, or on the Internet-if you can get to it from the Open File dialogs shown in Figure 2.15.įigure 2.17. You can also use FileMaker Pro’s File, Open command or the Quick Start screen, as described previously. Opening a local file is a simple matter of double-clicking its icon in either your Windows environment or the OS X Finder. On any of those computers, they can be housed on shared volumes or external devices (although there are constraints for the FileMaker Server database locations).
They can sit on your own computer, just as any other document might they can be hosted by another computer or they can be served by FileMaker Server. FileMaker Pro databases can live in various places. The first step in working with FileMaker Pro, obviously, is opening a database. This section focuses on working with FileMaker data using FileMaker Pro itself. You can use ODBC import and export to share data with SQL-compliant applications, and you can even import and export Excel spreadsheets. With web publishing, you can use a browser to access FileMaker data.
Over the past few revisions of FileMaker Pro, functionality has been added that lets you create databases in FileMaker but access them through other applications.
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