SilvrT Posted February 4, 2011 Share #1 Posted February 4, 2011 So, I am experimenting with FileMaker Pro 11 and Filemaker Server 11 as I may be building a Web database app and FileMaker seems pretty slick in this department. After only 2 days of experimenting tho, I am bumping into a few limitations. Anyone out there have any experience with FileMaker and what's your take on this program? Myself, I've been developing professionally for 20 years in a variety of environments with Visual Basic, VBA, MS Access, and MySQL being what I've been using for the past several years. Unfortunately, I have very little Web development experience and that is one of the reason's I'm looking at FileMaker. Maybe someone has another suggestion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomWill Posted February 5, 2011 Share #2 Posted February 5, 2011 I have not worked with it myself, but have worked with folks who have. Seems to be a FoxPro, or Access level kind of system. Of the 5 or 6 people I have worked with over the years that have worked with it only one of them was a big fan. Most of them use MySQL or another open source RDBMS for web development. I have used Oracle, SQLServer (including their free low capacity server MSDE and now SQLExpress) and a little MySQL but I work mainly in Healthcare / Public Health environments where the big names get a lot more play in the IT departments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahoutzer Posted February 5, 2011 Share #3 Posted February 5, 2011 What limitations are you running up against? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Posted February 5, 2011 Share #4 Posted February 5, 2011 My corporate program is used with filemaker, hate it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilvrT Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share #5 Posted February 5, 2011 What limitations are you running up against? The very first one was a grouping report. It looks fine in Filemaker but It won't display that way from the web browser...nor can you print it that way from the web browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilvrT Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share #6 Posted February 5, 2011 I have not worked with it myself, but have worked with folks who have. Seems to be a FoxPro, or Access level kind of system. Of the 5 or 6 people I have worked with over the years that have worked with it only one of them was a big fan. Most of them use MySQL or another open source RDBMS for web development. I have used Oracle, SQLServer (including their free low capacity server MSDE and now SQLExpress) and a little MySQL but I work mainly in Healthcare / Public Health environments where the big names get a lot more play in the IT departments. It is not nothing like FoxPro or Access... Filemaker uses a spreadsheet-like format for storing data. I've done a lot of work with both FoxPro and Access... they have few limitations but neither are designed for creating web apps. MySQL, SQLserver, MSDE, etc are only "back-end" systems ... I need a front-end that is easy to design in and easy to publish on a web server. Filemaker is very easy this way and it's "server" only requires that IIS be installed and running. Having said that, it's front-end is quite archaic to work with when you want to do some "fancy stuff" (so to speak)... it uses a scripting language that is almost like the old macro language in Lotus 123 or WordPerfect LOL So, I'm just looking for options at this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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