Hi Jim,


Sorry to come to the discussion so late, but couldn't
you avoid a lot of problems by hooking Revolutions
straight into the FMPro database via the Query Manager
and ODBC ?
This way you can use SELECT, INSERT and UPDATE
sql-sueries to fetch and manipulate data inside your
FMPro database.
There are a few people on this list who have used such
solutions to circumvent limitations in FMPro. If you
need more information, don't hesitate to poke the
list.

Jan Schenkel.


Jan,

I thought that Rev only communicated with certain select databases. From the doc under "revOpenDatabasse" it says:


The databaseType is one of "MySQL","Oracle" (Revolution Enterprise only), "ODBC", "PostgreSQL", or "Valentina".


I tried a while back to work with one of these and was quickly overwhelmed. Sarah was a big help but, in the end, it seems I was better off sticking to my old technology, i.e. FileMaker => text file => Run Rev => text file, and finally => FileMaker. Low tech, but it works.

There is one possibility I haven't fully explored, and that is to use AppleScript to import maybe half of the FMP file at a time into Run Rev and then patching the two together in RR. I'm worried, however, about transferring the pieces back into FMP from RR.

Jim
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