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For years, I have programmed pretty complex Access databases used by hundreds of end users. I am now tasked with learning FileMaker Pro 9. Can anyone recommend a FileMaker Pro book that would be good for someone who already has database knowledge but would like to transfer skills to FM …

Hi @ all: I've been looking for an ODBC-Driver for Filemaker. I've searched the web for hours, but i always found Trials of ODBC-Drivers, and that Trials were only for MAC OS. In an other forum, people where talking about a DLL, called "fmfmp50.dll", which should be an ODBC-Driver, but …

I have two databases and want to combine them. I tried sharing the tables but could not make that work. I tried importing the fields into the master table and that did not work (could not find a copy button). So I laboriously typed in the fields (copied them to …

I can open most of the FileMaker files on our network. But all of a sudden I've been getting errors when I attempt to open a couple of the files that were working fine all these years. When I try to open these problematic FileMaker Pro 5.5v1 files, I get …

Good afternoon, Can a runtime environment connect to and update records in a FM database on a file server? From what I understand, runtime env's package a copy of the actual database and allows someone to use it on a system without FM installed.... Basically, I want to create a …

OS: Win XP Pro Apps: FMPro 9 and MS ACCESS 2007 Database Types: both are Local to my machine Good afternoon everyone!!! --------"Connect to a MS Access DB"---------- I am new at using FMPro 9 (very new after a year of using VBA to manipulate and control MSACCESS db's)... I …

Hi All, I apologias to everyone posting all these questions. I have a meeting on Monday afternoon to review the possibility of using FileMaker pro 9 as our database. Having said that, I need to setup a database in FMPRO 9 and present it as prototype for that meeting. So …

Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to link to a sql table, but not be able to edit it, the table is part of another program data and I just want to look at data, maybe copy to spreadsheet. I figured out how to get …

I am quite comfortable with MS Access and have developed a complex relational database for my company. However, we have decided to use FileMaker 9 as our database development software, so I have been asked to re-create this same databse in Filemaker. I am finding it difficult, as the simple …

I am new to FileMaker Pro 9 and have used MS Access a little. I am wondering if it is possible to transfer files from FileMaker Pro 9 (many files) to a web MS ACCESS database where another company where we send our data?

Ok so i have an interesting problem i need some help with. I am a beginner/intermediate user of FileMaker Pro 9 and i maintain a database that contains scanned in files. I am trying to automate the scanning/record making process but to do this i need FileMaker to pull the …