MDM was released a few years before 7, and was sold as an analysis tool for developers, competing primarily with Brushfire and Analyzer. It was commonly used for just that-- tracking down all the connections between various 'objects' in a complex Filemaker system. Particularly useful if you were given a legacy system you needed to understand, or wanted to work through a project you were considering taking on. Also good for figuring out if it were safe to delete something-- a script, layout, even a field-- without doing any damage.
But when 7 was released, they added the ability to find and remove dead file references, as well as to build a comprehensive list of potential problem areas for migration. But, aside from that, it won't fix anything; rather, it helps the developer see what needs fixing. John Weinshel Datagrace Vashon Island, WA (206) 463-1634 Member, FileMaker Business Alliance Certified For FileMaker 8 Certified For FileMaker 7 -----Original Message----- From: FileMaker Pro Discussions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Payne Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Playing with MetaDataMagic I've downloaded the demo for MDM and am playing with it now. My FM6 databases convert okay to FM8.5, although there are many oddities, such as relationships being messed up (my Invoices.fp5 relationship shows up as Invoices2, Invoices3, Invoices4, etc.) so I'm hoping I can use MDM to "clean" my databases before final conversion. My question is, then, what exactly does MDM do? I see that it reads in all data, layout info, scripts and so on, and reports errors to me like invalid references in scripts and what not. Is this a tool to just find errors, or will it output a "clean" copy of my database for me, if I buy the correct version. Or just a way to find errors that might cause problems with I move to FM8.5? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
