Mcgillivray, Donald [ITS]
donald.a.Mcgillivray at mail.sprint.com
Fri Oct 15 11:16:51 CDT 2004
Because it's Friday I'll second that!!! Thankfully I've never had to do anything with Filemaker, but my poor wife has to use it daily to run the box office at a small theatre. I don't know if the developer of the app was simply incompetent (as I suspect) or if it's the best that can be done within the limits of the program (gawd, I hope not!), but she (and she is NO kind of developer - barely considers herself a user!) has to perform MODS ON THE INTERFACE just to allow the thing to accommodate normal business realities (increase ticket prices, extensions of performance runs, scheduling the run of the next show, etc.) It's either that or pay the "developer" by the hour to do it. I mean, literally, stuff that could easily be handled by adding a few records to a table (in a well-designed db) require a virtual re-design of the db and interface. And this piece of crap is being used to manage the lifeblood of the org. I have looked under the hood of it a bit, and even tried my hand at designing something with Filemaker, to see if I might be of some help to her. Made me run away screaming. GAWD!!! Don't get me started. I gotta go. Don McGillivray -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 8:18 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] Filemaker ODBC Driver for Access Good grief NO! FoxPro is at least a decent relational database. FileMaker is for idiots! Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: JMoss [mailto:jmoss111 at bellsouth.net] Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 4:47 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] Filemaker ODBC Driver for Access Vlad, eBay has FileMaker Pro for under $50 with Buiy It Now. Isn't FM a FoxPro format database? If that doesn't work, DataJunction has a 30 day trial version, and it can handle 160+ file formats. DataJunction was purchased by Pervasive last year and I think they changed the DJ name to Cosmos. DataJunction.com was still working the last time I checked, it forwarded you to the Pervasive web site. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of ACTEBS Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 12:33 AM To: access group Subject: [AccessD] Filemaker ODBC Driver for Access Guys, Does anyone know where to get an ODBC driver for Filemaker Pro? I have a client who is migrating from Filemaker Pro to Access (Government Dept) and they would not know where to get the disk that was originally installed on their PC. The task of extracting the data from his FmPro DB into Access is part of an app I'm building for them. I don't want to purchase one if I don't have to, but the only ones I can find online are $100+. For one file and one import instance I can't see that that is value for money... Any help greatly appreciated... Vlad -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com