Peter

Another concern about upgrading you and not the users would be you using a TAB control and them seeing it in FM7 - where it cannot exist, so doesn't and all the fields and objects on all the tabs end up in an unsightly mess.

Stephen

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On Oct 1, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Peter Kilcoyne wrote:

> Hi Folks:
> 
> I have been putting off upgrading my FMP 8.5 advanced because of the uncertainty that my department might switch to a completely different project management software. But now I'm told that the FMP database will continue to be used and over the summer we will be installing FMP Server so that more people can have access to the database.
> 
> Great news for me after many years of hard work developing the database. Now comes the question of how high I should go from 8.5? I just read on Filemakers web site that they will no longer support or produce v8 or v8.5, so it makes even more sense to upgrade.
> 
> My users are on PCs and I am on a Mac Pro OS X. My system will upgrade this month to the latest version of MacPro or iMac that is available. But most of my users will not and I believe they are using FMP v7. So which version would you recommend I upgrade to?
> 
> TIA,
> Peter