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Technology for everyone. Using FileMaker Pro, any problem solver can: Drag and drop to create layouts. Use built-in templates and add-ons. Run apps on Windows and Mac. Create mobile apps. Share apps on phones, tablets, and laptops. Make instant reports on the fly. Plays nice with others.

The low-code platform has allowed someone like me to build a program that our business can actually run on. Got a business problem? For these reason, one should never rush to the latest and greatest macOS, and if they have to, then they should be able to older version of macOS in a VM,. This year I moved to the yearly subscription model. The yearly subscription makes great sense since it relieves the sw vendor from cranking out shiny new features, no matter the cost, for keeping up revenues.

The sw vendor keeps his income and can focus on stability, compatibility and innovation. My expected incentive is stable and OS-compatible releases. The FM release cycle appears to be completely out of sync with macOS\’s and I wonder what the technical reason can be. That\’s assuming that there would be a technical reason. I don\’t think there is. They are two separate companies. The ownership is kinda irrelevant in this regards. And for me, mostly just a circular discussion as my still shiny 17\” MacBook which I love for developing on is unable to upgrade to Mojave anyway..!!

After that, could make a great NIX machine! This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Claris may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Claris can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficiency of any proposed solutions on the community forums.

Claris disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the Claris Community Use Agreement. Search Loading. Register Login. View This Post. November 4, at PM. Thanks for your support, I already have the one month free filemaker 17 and works fine with Mojave Could you please explain me about the license for developing and testing, I only use filemaker for my invoices, I pay this, could I continue doing my invoces with filemake?

Thanks for your support, I already downloaded the free trial for one month of filemake, and it runs well with Mojave Regards from Mexico Miguel.

So far, things appear to be playing nicely, but between the Mac OS update schedule too fast for most business operations and FMP updates being out of sync with Mac OS updates, too much time is wasted navigating this mine field instead of developing solutions and running a business both mine and each client\’s.

I think that is more of a \’mostly works but there are a few known issues\’ so \’ FMI \’ can\’t categorically say its supported, as that looks like a statement that would have to pass legal, and as ever use at your own risk. I agree adn think the obesssion with new, shiny, frequent OS is somewhere at the root of this, and none of the \’big\’ companies are immune to making a complete hash of things.

Over years, Apple did not bring the hardware to the market one was waiting for Mac Pro, Mac Mini, a MacBook that works – 15\” MacBooks the touchbar ones are not so much loved. Now, we got new Mini\’s and new Air\’s, a new iPad – all available, but FileMaker is not fully supported I\’m a somewhat happy owner of a brandnew iPad Pro 11\”, FileMaker Go is one of the applications that are not ready screen size.

Also the speed in Go is not as good as one could expect from the numbers – it is similar to the iPad Pro from Yes, it is not uncommon on these days that software becomes \’graveyardsoft\’ after just years – But: Some customer- companies are ISO certified, means there are rules for updating software.

Solved by Developers won\’t go for an update when aware of issues that could affect the daily processes of the customer. Means 1 that quite some customer installations are still on FileMaker In our case, we are planning the update to 17 somewhere in , resources allready reserved.

Means 2 that FileMaker is rated by an older version, not the current one If there is just the current version that runs smooth whatever this means , that\’s not that cute. There have been some comparision sessions at the developer conference last year Salzburg.

Some of the competitors compared their stuff with FileMaker 6!! By that time, the next edition is already approaching its own pre-release date. Remedy: slow down the introduction of cool new stuff in favor of fixing what is more urgently needed.

The biggest round of applause at Devcon was for a feature fix that has been requested for 2 decades or more. Ignoring the MS update that completely broke Exchange??? Specifically meaning, Office for Mac, but lol I see what you just did. MS also opened the can of worms that comes with release cycles faster than developers and QA can work.

Marketing over engineering The sad thing is that it\’s the same thing every year, totally predictable. But anyway, Filemaker 17 is unusable itself due to this, FM17 more frequent Beach-balling? I use FileMaker 17 every day on the latest OS. I don\’t agree that FileMaker 17 is unusable. Unusable is not the right descriptions.

Again, while I\’m not discounting that you may deal with some issues, it\’s not \”17 is unusable\”. We are using it just fine. Lots of users. Zero issues. Never run into many of the bugs that everyone says are so bad. MacOS Mojave\’s new security posture and privacy segregation affects the following:. Some software titles required significant modifications, but FileMaker 17 appears to have fared well with the Mojave update. Regarding OS compatibility updates for GA general availability software:.

FileMaker can too. It requires a directive from the top, simply stating, \”Compatibility updates for FileMaker will be released at launch of major OS releases. No more delays. Tell me what is needed to make this happen. Our customers demand it.

How do all these top-tier software developers make it happen? Corporate leadership says, \”Do it\” What is relevant in professional and individual use is that a version is officially cleared for use with the current OS version by the manufacturer.

The intricacies of migrating back to a previous OS version are not known by everyone and sometimes Apple does not even allow a roll-back. I do not know the root cause of this hard fail several months of incompatibility of current FM with current OS. But compared to Windows, where this is almost a non-issue, macOS must break more things in a new version than Windows does.

My opinion is, software in GA general availability , i. FileMaker 17, should receive compatibility updates at the OS release, or immediately thereafter. It\’s , and developer betas are available months in advance for a reason – to ensure day-to-day software like MS Office, antivirus, and creative applications are ready to go on the OS release date.

These developers can do it, so can FileMaker. Companies like Apple and Microsoft are in the driver\’s seat – encouraging rapid OS update adoption, with all the marketing pushes, pop-ups, and pre-downloads for a reason. Obviously they want to focus more on what\’s next, and having a greater number of users at the same level is beneficial to everyone downstream – support, IT specialists, software developers, hardware vendors.

Oftentimes though, the end user get the squeeze – especially with developers who have their own schedule in mind. We know it will break the current FileMaker version. True, buying a new Mac you will get the latest macOS. I wonder if there is a way to backgrade a new computer to the previous OS? Maybe what users should do is ask Apple to stop breaking older software with new OSs. While the current marketing-driven release cycle of macOS and Windows is deplorable for several reasons, the OS is the underlying foundation and therefore sets the pace.

As you said, sw vendors should keep up with it or lobby the OS makers for a better approach. No rush, other than the pressure Apple and Microsoft applies to users with pop-ups, pre-downloads, and marketing tactics. Hell, Windows forced an update on some folks a while back. Apple MacOS release updates are generally significant – especially in the security and privacy area – or in technological movements, like the jump from PowerPC to Intel, or x86 to x Aside from these examples, all the changes I deal with are totally within the realm of reason.

In my opinion, developers should aim to keep their software up-to-date with the current OS at the release date or immediately after. MS Office, antivirus, creative apps, etc, all make it happen. Developer betas are released months in advance, and a solid effort should be made to study the changes, and get compatible with the latest OS.

It\’s not rocket science, just work. The problem is much worse than FMI, or even some of us think it is. Responsible users would not upgrade lightly their production tool, sure. That said, people are people, users are users, and thanks to encouragement, including pesky notification to upgrade, plus the upgrade to avoid security threat consensus, some people, even one individual in the company, will upgrade and it will probably be the boss.

Then he launches Filemaker and then it craps. Who\’s gonna take the blame for this, apple? Certainly not, Filemaker will have the blame for it, and also probably the in-house dev. No matter how you mince it, Filemaker is the software that prevents people to upgrade to latest os release that\’s \”so important for security\”, therefore Filemaker is bad. Adding to that that Filemaker is an Apple-owned company, makes this just baffling. So this is terribly bad for Filemaker\’s reputation.

And that\’s a terribly terrible marketing idea. That\’s reputation just thrown down the trash. One thing that\’s also quite particular, is that those issues that arose with high sierra and Mojave are GUI ones. Moreover, why is there GUI issues in the first place?

I\’m going to be extremely blunt about this: these OS release cycles and FM release cycles have been around for a number of years now. If at this point we are still surprised by them, that\’s on us. Not them. Any change, no matter how small or big has the potential of upsetting our software.

Which is why it is on us to make sure nothing upsets that. Including telling clients to hold off on updating their OS. And for us to start testing what we have as soon as we can. It\’s easy to blame others, but we are the ones delivering value to our customers by providing them with software.

The deployment is just as important. You take no risk with new OSes and new versions. If you do; don\’t blame anyone else. This is the same dance all Mac Admins go through will all software, not just FileMaker. I repeat, no matter on how your \”mincing words\”, the one thing that prevents user to upgrade their OS is Filemaker. For the user, the culprit, the annoying boy, is Filemaker.

That\’s it. Who cares about updating their OS just because they can!? If that is what customers do then clearly we missed an opportunity to talk to them about the importance of the stability of the deployment. And that in turn points back to us, not them.

If a solution based on the FM platform is critical to the business then that should be the main driver for updating an OS or not.

Not the other way around. It shouldn\’t be about updating the OS and then getting all up in arms about it breaking things. You\’re totally missing the point. Yes you\’re right, it\’s not important.

But people want it, and the industry helps them pesky Apple upgrade notification, and even FileMaker ones when you\’re launching 16 when 17 is available. Yes, in a work environment, you\’re not here to want. But still people want them. Why can\’t they upgrade? And whose to blame, the pesky guy that installed FileMaker that tells them not to upgrade.

The fact that we\’re right to say to them not to upgrade is totally un-relevant, that\’s just frustration. So Filemaker frustrates. And unlike other software, you\’ve to wait a lot to get the go, in fact, you\’ve to wait way more than any other software. And unlike other software that\’s an apple owned company. That\’s double the frustration. That\’s it, that\’s\’ perception. And the only thing that count is perception. User wants to upgrade, FileMaker gest in the way, unlike other tools, unlike cloud tools.

Therefore Filemaker looks bad. Is that cool that filemaker is always late, no it\’s not cool. Would it be better if it wasn\’t, of course!

So, Filemaker should be ready the day of the realease, or a week after max. It\’s one thing to brag about Workforce innovation platfform, and then fall appart just when the user wants to innovate with the latest upgrade. That\’s a total marketing disaster. Moreover, for us Filemaker devs, it\’s just complicatig our work for nothing. Because FMI is not ready, then we\’ll have to justify, and advocate, escuse, convince.

Lots of wasted time, just because FMI is not ready. That\’s it, tahts\’ perception. And the inly thing that count is pereception. User wants to upgrade,. And that\’s the perception we need to break. You are not in control of the release cycles of Windows, Apple or FM.

But you are in control of what your customers use. If not, then again, like I said before, it\’s a missed opportunity to tell them what is important. If they don\’t listen to you about this, then you can\’t really give them the value that they are after. And the reality these days is that the client may have to forgo \”dark mode\” for sake of stability.

This tells me your technology stack is pretty small then. And that\’s fine. This is still an expression of your own experience, and not the experience of all users. FileMaker has never held us back from upgrading.

At least not alone. There are so many other things that get in the way before we even can think about upgrading FileMaker. At my place, Filemaker is the only software with such issues, that\’s it. It\’s also important to remember FileMaker doesn\’t have a team of engineers. Having zero-day compatibility is rare, and those companies that do it are significantly larger. Why should I not upgrade say the user? So Filemaker is the culprit.

If you are not in control of your environment then you have no control whatsoever. It does not matter whether your chosen platform is FM,. NET, Java, or anything else. If you think otherwise then you are just deluding yourself. The fact that you are being bitten by the combination of macOS and FM is purely coincidental. It would and will happen to you with other platforms too.

You develop to a certain business spec and a given framework. That is all you can promise. If the client goes beyond that then it is outside of your envelope. If you think FMI is going to solve that for you: nope. Not going to happen. That\’s yours to solve. The ensuing discussion, yes, has been helpful. This post started off in a rant, but has actually evolved sort of into less ranty and more discussion. Not sure I\’ve ever seen a post evolve. Everyone, this is a healthy discussion about important topics – release schedules for FileMaker platform software in relation to OS releases, and compatibility with non GA versions of FileMaker.

In my opinion, the current software release life cycle for the FileMaker platform is flawed, coupled with the diverse licensing strategies – not very Apple like, but FileMaker is it\’s own thing. This opinion is shared by many in the community, and I understand why others are not so up for the discussion – what can we do?

The important thing is having these discussions, in dedicated topics, to discuss from time to time. There\’s no need to lay blame any anyone\’s feet – each company and development team have their own strategies and software life cycles.

Personally, if I were in charge, FileMaker would be an annual subscription platform, on a per user, perhaps per server basis. Volume discounts. Reasonably priced, but certainly maximizing profit potential.

Pricing is transparent and available on a pricing page, and no need to call anyone. Continuous release cycle. The most up-to-date version always available to subscribers.

Compatibility releases with each OS release. I\’d really like to know how much coders there is at filemaker? FMI is hiring like crazy. They have software engineering teams in CA, TX, Given the tightening job market for experienced developers, I also wonder how many seats are hot, and how many are ready to fill.

I\’m not sure, and I\’m not sure Adobe tells us how many engineers they have. Do you think that\’s a number any company would want to give out? What makes you state this as any kind of qualifier? What if they had one super-engineer doing all the work of engineers at another company? How is this going to sway any argument in the thread so far? Meh, workforce productivity ratios, but we\’re missing a few variables. I\’m not asking FileMaker to solve anything for me, I just ask them not to create problems themselves by not being able to update their software in a timely manner like tons of other companies do, especially if they\’re apple owned.

I\’m just saying that this Mojave compabitlity issues are just a total PR disaster, demolishing marketing and advocating efforts, and that\’s it shouting themselves in the foot while other companies, that aren\’t apple owned have no such issue. Your sound deployment advises have nothing to do with the issue, the issue is that Filemaker is super late in the Mojave compatibility stuff, that it harms the platform perception a lot, make us waste time to explain user, but also make us responsible admin postponed upgrades that users want or need new macs.

That\’s just a waste of time and efforts, like the very existence of that thread which would have never existed just if FMI could release that dam upgrade like tons of other companies untied to apple furthermore , do.

So the point of that thread is to tell FMI, that this delayed upgrade stuff is hurting the platform a lot, that it can\’t be possibly seen in a good way by regular users, and that as an apple company it\’s even more important.

When you want to do marketing, you try to avoid bad stuff. So I\’m telling FMI : don\’t overlook this, don\’t shy way, it\’s important. Did I? I did not brought this topic. Since somebody else talked about it, I was just asking out of curiosity. Because I\’m curious about it. The qualifier may have been in the perceived intent of the post in the sequence of the thread.

I was trying to interpret why the number of FMi engineer would have any bearing on the topic at hand,. Since neither you nor I are native English speakers we can probably leave it at that. I have hope for it. Cool, knowledgeable people are here that can steer it the right way. Does anyone find it peculiar, the way I do, that I get all kinds of email notices from FileMaker, including telling me things I don\’t need to know e.

I have a bizarre problem with FMP 17 and Mojave. When I open the script editor, nothing displays when I select a script. The script steps editor simply shows \”No script selected. The problem seems to be with outdated Works plugins. Time to download new versions, if available. Has anyone run their custom-signed app that they sell outside of the App Store through Apple\’s new Notarization process for Mojave?

This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Claris may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Claris can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficiency of any proposed solutions on the community forums.

Claris disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the Claris Community Use Agreement. Search Loading. Register Login. Report a Product Issue. View This Post. July 1, at PM. Importing from from spreadsheet. Crash when creating new buttons in layout mode.

The FMP file is Too much work just to do FMI\’s homework! Forward that to OWC. That would be interesting. Benjamin Fehr, Thank you for reporting this! Thank you for contacting OWC and please have an awesome day! Yes beta 3 18Ag is the latest.

Is anyone else having the same issue? I am sure they already have something in the works. Sent from my iPad. Speaking of Mo NDA to send in as email to: forumsupport filemaker. I\’m running Mac Limited resources. Simple fact, FileMaker would need to devote countless hours to testing and refactoring code to work with some aspects of Mojave. Only to have that work thrown out the window when the next beta drops and have to start over. Since June, they have had at least 10 Betas drop as of the end of August.

Being an Apple subsidiary. This doesn\’t give FileMaker any specific advantage. It doesn\’t. I talk to the FileMaker people at DevCon. They get zero advantage here. That\’s an Apple thing, not some failure on the part of FileMaker. Waiting for compatibility fix. FileMaker is not, by far, the worst at getting a compatibility fixes in place. It would be nice if we had zero-day support. But it\’s just not that simple. From a professional development and systems admin perspective, the installed technology will always be behind the shipping release by 3, 6, 12 months.

Dear FileMaker Inc: Keep in mind that \’Mojave\’ does not necessarily mean \”voluntary update from an impatient existing user\”; it could perfectly be a new FileMaker user who just own a brand new Mac; or an existing FileMaker user who had to buy a new Mac because the existing was dead. Are you FileMaker Inc? I just am very diligent about reading. It is the 5th time i access and read it.

My last comment, just a citation afterward you will have the last word, i promise : \”There are known stability issues with FileMaker Server 17 with macOS Mojave Fred CH wrote: I would bet the contrary : Apple is very experimented in this game. So would I. Benjamin Fehr wrote: Be aware that Apple Inc. Joshua Ormond wrote: I\’ve been listening to a number of podcasts, including the MacAdmins podcast.

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Register Login. But shutttt We recommend waiting till the full release of the OS so that we would be able to start our in-house testing with our products. External drive, with High Sierra as boot drive. I\’ll have to try to remember ALT Recently, IBM — who have deployed nearly , Macs in the past two years — have provided concrete data to support this claim.