Filemaker, how do you share on 4 computers?

Competition Scouting
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I rember copying scouting sheets into a database way back last year…horrible. So if we’re gonna use filemaker, I would need to get the team to buy 3 more licenses, learn how to set up a network where the database could be shared with one liscense, or have teams that are not going to usee filemaker “donate” their copies to our team.(we going to 3 regionals and nationals)
I offer in trade our scouting data but i would prefer just finding a way to make it work with one liscense.

thanks

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Well is anyone not planning on using the filemaker software in the kit?

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Filemaker actually has a way to serve the database through a web interface. FIRST actually uses this for their TIM database. It is a plug-in you have to enable. Then you can set it up serving on one computer, and point a web browser on the others to the server’s ip. What you can do is through the web interface is limited however.

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i was thinking of trying that. Do you just have the one main computer run the site and then the other computers fill out a form on the webpage?

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I’m running into two problems witht the web companion.
First, it messes up the display something horrible. ive tried different lyouts but still messed up.

Secondi cant get the tab order the way i would like it.

Anyone?

of course the whole thing could be solved if someone would donate a few licenses. plz help at my thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17421

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I don’t know a thing about filemaker. However, if you can do something with a web/HTML interface, I would recommend using that over getting two different DB. Using one DB will always mean that the data is ‘up-to-date’ w/o need to worry if the two different DBs are in-sync.

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well ive fixed my first problem. the tab order is the only problem when used online. i think the database would always be insync but i cant be sure.hmmm anyone a freind of html and able to help me change tab order? link? anything?

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<input type="text" name="somefield1" size="40"  tabindex="1">
<input type="text" name="somefield2" size="40"  tabindex="3">
<input type="text" name="somefield3" size="40"  tabindex="2">
<input type="text" name="somefield4" size="40"  tabindex="4">

Hitting tab would move in this order:
somefield1, somefield3, somefield2, somefield4.

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hey thnx. one of the problems is the source is all in javascript and i cant really tell whats going on in it all. any ideas?