Let me preface this by saying that I'm not a Filemaker developer or
user. I've been tasked with trying to come up with a source code
control and migration strategy for our Filemaker application that we
inherited.

I got a brief demo from the main developer of how she codes and right
now it appears she pretty much recodes changes as she moves them up
from development to staging. Is this the normal approach?

I believe we have FileMaker Pro version 7, if that matters.

Thanks for any help with this.

Dave

Yes and no. For small bug fixes, I'd make them in a development
version, test them, then make the same changes in the production
version. For large changes, I'd make them in a development version,
test, fix, test, fix, then move the development version to production.

It all depends on how hard it is to get your data into the code
(data and code can be separated in 7).


In article <1121949296.653789.194930 (AT) o13g2000cwo (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
<DaveHeilig (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

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When you say you would move the development version to production, how
would that happen. I don't see anywhere to export on object (not the
data, just the layout).

Thanks for your answer.
Dave