Why use Filemaker and Usertalk apps to make online databases.
1. Filemaker 'web companion' is, by itself, as far as I can tell, at the moment, inadequate to provide truly sophisticated online access to FM files.
2. What is generally required is access to FM data within the context of a dynamic and flexible website such as those that can be provided by Frontier/Manila/Radio. if FM data can be made to appear seamlessly within a site that already contains mature features such as discussion boards, membership, online page editing and templates you have an impressive product.
3. Frontier contains its own object database why use FM at all?
- For many purposes this may be true but FM, as a relational database, is more effective and with large volumes of data and easier to use in terms of sorting, constructing detailed search queries, deleting multiple records etc.
- clients may like the idea of having a 'take away' FM database file to examine and use at their own convenience quite separate from the web interface They sometimes do not like the idea that all the collected data is 'hidden' within a Frontier table somewhere.
4.FMPro v.5 contains support for XML, The Filemaker co advocates its use in the deployment of FM based web sites and says, in its own introductory page:
The server that uses XML performs faster, is more customizable, and can more easily exchange data with other databases.[source]
5. Frontier was one of the first scripting applications to make widespread use of XML and it contains many very handy inbuilt verbs for the handling of the type of XML data that FM can produce. They are a natural match.
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