Re: Filemaker and Database events
Re: Filemaker and Database events
- Subject: Re: Filemaker and Database events
- From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:19:19 +0200
On 9. juni 2010, at 22.34, Stockly, Ed wrote:
>
>> FileMaker is a relational database; Database Events is an object database.
> There is no commonality between them, and both use proprietary file formats
>
> Thanks, that's some helpful information. Although not what I was hoping to
> hear.
>
>>>>> (not that you'd want more than one process accessing the same database file
> at the same time anyway).
>
> The processes wouldn't be reading/writing to the data at the same time. In
> fact, if FMP could simply export a subset to database events, that would
> work. The scripts the user is working with only need to read the data via
> database events.
>
>>>> Though without more information on what it is you're trying to achieve, it's
> not possible to give any definite recommendations.
>
> Basically I have a script that reads TV listing data from a table cell in
> inDesign (Date, time channel, title) pulls data for the program from a data
> base, then poplulates cell with updated data.
>
> The scripts will run on client machines on a various macs where I cannot
> install software (beyond my scripts). Basically they need to run on a mac
> out of the box running inDesign pretty much out of the box.
>
> The Filemaker part comes in when the data is first created and updated. It
> would be read and modified in Filemaker (using the Filemaker UI) then
> exported and distributed as database events files.
>
> ES
>
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I haven't investigated FileMaker Pro's capabilities yet, but to create a script that adds records to
database events in itself should be pretty easy. If you can't do it directly, you could have FileMake Pro
export in CSV format and parse the text file from there into Database Events.
Best regards
Tommy Bollman
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