03 March, 2015

Migrating to new FileMaker version - Things to consider

Why FMPro Latest? File maker is the flagship product from file maker Inc which is a subsidiary of Apple. Hence we can expect exceptional quality of reliability and performance from file maker pro. It has also proved its potential in the industry for more than a decade in MAC and iOS platform. The latest file maker pro has some advanced features like support for windows operating system, cloud technology, larger size of templates etc. This makes it much more useful and efficient than before. Hence file maker developers are trying to migrate their application to the latest version in order to gain those extra things for their application. Let us discuss some basic steps that we must consider for the migration process to be successful.

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Make sure you have kept all files in one place: Before a file maker developer starts his migration process to the latest version, he must keep all the related files of the application inside one folder. This will definitely help the file maker developer in future when he performs the migration process; because at that time all the modifications will be performed within the folder and hence he doesn’t need to keep track of each and every related file. This will improve the productivity along with giving the process a professional flow.

Special care for your database is must: We all know that file maker is like an ERP solution and hence there are lots of tables in the database. During migration, you must ensure that your database is safe and secure just like before. Otherwise the entire application will crash. Hence you should make sure that your database is very much safe. To achieve the same, you should keep a backup of all your tables and database related files in a different folder so that you can handle any type of unexpected situation after migration.

Keep the new FMPro files under a new folder: When a file maker developer runs the migration software he should give a new destination folder for all the new files. This will definitely help the file maker developer preventing from meshing up things within one folder. This will also isolate the old files and folders from that of new and hence making it easy to trace any element from any group.

Make sure all your plugins will work after migration: File maker pro is usually expands its functionality through the integration of different plugins to the core application. These plugins help the FM application much more efficient and energetic to meet the expectations of the heavy demand of the user. But when we migrate to a latest version, it will be foolish to expect the same compatibility of the plugins with the latest version. Moreover we would say that there is a higher probability of incompatibility of those plugins when the application gets migrated to the latest version. Hence we should either check for updates of those plugins so that it can be compatible with the latest version or else we have to write the functional part of the plugin for our application ourselves.

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