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Re: To go or not to go?

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FM Go allows you to do almost everything that you can do on an FM Pro 
client.  The only real issues you may run into are in generated charts, 
PDFs, imports/exports, and running plugins.  It is not just syncing the 
data -- it is live data you are interacting with, just as you would with 
an FM Pro client.



On 7/22/2011 5:57 AM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> Here we use Filemaker to manage our databases.
>
> Now we were interested in evaluating filemaker to go to use it
> eventually on an IPAD (which still we don't have).
>
> Before buying, however, I want to understand a few issues which the
> website didn't answer me (it's just marketing and vapor-ware there).
>
> The first problem is about the synchronization of the data.
> Is it still true that fm-to-go doesn't let you modify or create new
> records?
>
> That is not the end of the world, and it might even be fine.  But we
> have a lot of databases (>  30 probably) and I would like to
> synchronize
> them all in the morning.
>
>  From what I've read we need to use iTunes and do some manual boring
> and
> stupid procedure. Are there smarter and automatic ways to use
> something
> like rsync?

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To go or not to go? Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2011-07-22 05:57 -0700
  Re: To go or not to go? Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2011-07-22 10:28 -0700
  Re: To go or not to go? David Jondreau <david@wingforward.net> - 2011-07-22 22:36 -0700
    Re: To go or not to go? Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2011-07-27 06:52 -0700
      Re: To go or not to go? Court Bowman <court@clevelandconsulting.com> - 2011-08-02 03:27 -0700

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