> On 2015 Mar 15, at 08:32, Bruce Herbach <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Gary
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> If you are starting a new project I suggest using the current version, 13.
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> It sounds like you have some data in 6. If you need this you can use version 11 to convert the earlier version to a .fp7 file then open it in 13 and convert to .fmp12 file.
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> You may be able to import the .fp7 data. Not sure about earlier versions.
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> HTH
> Bruce Herbach
> Herbach Consulting
From a technical standpoint, Bruce is absolutely right.
However, there are cost considerations. When FMI finally departed from the “.fp7” file format (an incredibly robust workhorse that had served us all well thru Versions 7, 8, 8.5, 9, 10, and 11), it also abandoned the idea that you could do web publishing directly out of plain-vanilla FMP. Beginning with the “.fmp12” file format, you needed to go to the more expensive FileMaker Server to get that capability. (And, by “that capability”, I mean “the considerably more powerful WebDirect instead of the older, simpler, and increasingly out-of-date Instant Web Publishing”.)
A copy of stand-alone FMP is $329. A copy of FMP Server with 0 connections is $1,044. But, of course, the whole point of web publishing is that you’re gonna want connections, so the least you’re looking at is Server + 5 connections for $1,944. That $1,600 bump is probably not an obstacle for even a small business, but it looms large for the kind of non-profit organizations I do most of my development for. And it may for Gary as well.
But sooner or later, Gary, you’re gonna have to bite that bullet. IWP is already on its last legs of being able to work with the web browsers of 2015, and if I were you I wouldn’t be investing any more of my time in something that’s doomed to irrelevance in the next several years.
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