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Is there any way to run instant web publishing and network sharing simultaneously on filemaker server because web publishing requires you to turn file sharing off.

Thanks i think i got the problem solved

would you also happen to know why the files become non modifiable when i put it on the server?

well no neccesarily a desktop icon, they would open a file maker file that would act as a "main menu" that would open the specified file (depending on which button they clicked) remotely

yes that is exactly what he's looking for.

Hi also have the problem of not being able to modify the databases when i put it on the server, i get the error message that the file is not modifiable with a data entry account and administrator account.

We are all running 8.5 on both mac osx and windows xp, My supervisor would like to have that index page which i feel is unneccesary, I guess it would be all for looks. How do i make sure that when they open it from the index page the file will be opened remotely through the server?

I have a database that has scripts to open other databases, It is a database index if you will. I was wondering if i could have it open the other databases from the server with just a click of a button without having to go through the open remote menu. I have it this way because my supervisor...

ok ill try this, however im not to familiar with portals and relationships, i am more comfortable with the hard coding being i am a computer engineer and not a filemaker professional. So i would need two tables to perform this task? one that actually holds the records the other as the find...

after i flag the record, i perform a find on that flag, although im asked to expand the search options which will make my find script a lot larger, they will all follow the same thing. flag records with all the matching fields, say an author, date and keywords, a script for the author like i...

i have multiple scripts running before the if condtition. this is one of a couple other scripts that limit my find. but in this script the only condition previous to the conditional statements is setting a variable to loop through all the records, step after is just requesting to start at the...

i have made multiple scripts that do a modified version of find. i have two layouts that will interact in this script, one will have global fields (will serve as the search form) and one will have the records with the actual data. what will happen is the user will enter the name of an...

how much space does a database allocate? I want to limit the amount of files the user can put into the database and make sure it does not exceed the amount of space filemaker has for files.

I have made a layout that will act as a folder that holds either excel files or images. Each record may have different number of files associated with them, i.e. one will have 2 excel files and 3 images, another may have just one image file. To store these i would put them into a container. I...

Currently all the macs and pcs at the company i intern for are running filemaker 8.5, i was wondering if you could add a folder or some sort of reference to a folder into an individual record. the purpose is to serve as records that have pictures associated with them and i know you can insert...