Quick question for the group. I am in the middle of my move from
Filemaker 6.0 to 8.5, and it's going well so far. THANKS for
suggesting MetaDataMagic, it cleaned the files up nicely. I'm not
just going through some test files trying to find out what new
"voodoo" I'll have to work around (so far, not much).
One problem I'm trying to solve is, what is the best way to send data
from Filemaker 8.5 to a web-hosted Filemaker 6 system. Essentially,
we need to create records in Japan with the addresses of products
that need to be shipped out of San Diego. In the past, we've both
been using Filemaker 6 so it was okay, however with us upgrading in
Japan, it breaks the link between the two. If anyone can suggest what
the best way to send record data through the web -- our current idea
is a lasso system that creates a record based on the URL, e.g. the
URL has data like customernum=12345&invoicenum=67890, although it's
tedious and I'm not sure if this is the best way to go -- a really
long URL and lasso interface seems clunky.
I wish there were a magic ODBC/whatever way to say, here is some
data, please read it and store it. Any thoughts on what the best way
to proceed is?
