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This is how I think of FileMaker Pro. It seems like a great "next step" past Excel for businesses that don't have budget/time for custom programming. Also, wha
by pjungwir 10y ago
This is how I think of FileMaker Pro. It seems like a great "next step" past Excel for businesses that don't have budget/time for custom programming.
Also, what about SharePoint? I haven't used it, but my impression is that this is what it's for. Is that mistaken?
- maxxxxx 10y agoStay away from SharePoint. It sucks in every dimension you may want to use it. Thumbs up for FileMaker though.
- thirdsun 10y agoFileMaker is actually a very capable system, but there are some major drawbacks: - I absolutely hate their approach to layout / styling / frontend - I wish they'd embrace web technologies like plain css amd html, which they do under the hood but don't really expose to the user / developer. - there are countless performance issues, like their record-centric approach to showing data. Try displaying a list view that features an attribute from a related table - a very common requirement, yet you can't really scroll that list any more since FileMaker tries to lazily load related data on demand. - FileMaker has a hard time talking to other services. You can export in multiple formats like csv and excel, however I had to come up with a very complicated approach in order to talk to and sync data with web APIs. Native JSON support in FileMaker would help a lot to make it easier but it's only possible with custom functions.