Wildcard use in File References - bad idea?

#1

FilemakerPro 7 help says

Quote:

FileMaker does not recommend using an asterisk (*)
as a wild card character in network file path
definitions as it slows FileMaker network traffic.
When possible, replace an asterisk with the appropriate IP address.

With this in mind, I hard coded an IP address into the file references
of the 20-odd files in my solution, which comes out to ~80 references.
My file references look like this: fmnet:/10.0.0.65/MyFile

Now my company is a week away from switching our DSL provider. It looks
like the whole range of IP addresses we have been using will have to be
changed, and that means half a day of painstaking file reference
updating.

Surely there's a better way? I have all of the files running on a
single server. Is there a way I can use relative paths to avoid having
to change my references again in the future, but not lose performance?

Kevin

#2

My understanding is the files on the server, when they reference each
other, should contain a file reference as;
file:MyFile

Only the local startup file should have the reference you mentioned.

#3

audleman (AT) quasika (DOT) net wrote:

Quote:

FilemakerPro 7 help says

FileMaker does not recommend using an asterisk (*)
as a wild card character in network file path
definitions as it slows FileMaker network traffic.
When possible, replace an asterisk with the appropriate IP address.

With this in mind, I hard coded an IP address into the file references
of the 20-odd files in my solution, which comes out to ~80 references.
My file references look like this: fmnet:/10.0.0.65/MyFile

Now my company is a week away from switching our DSL provider. It looks
like the whole range of IP addresses we have been using will have to be
changed, and that means half a day of painstaking file reference
updating.

Surely there's a better way? I have all of the files running on a
single server. Is there a way I can use relative paths to avoid having
to change my references again in the future, but not lose performance?

Kevin

Why not reference a global field in a preferences file or table. This
way you can change the IP address globally with one edit.

Michael Myett

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Wildcard use in File References - bad idea?

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Wildcard use in File References - bad idea? - 09-15-2005 , 12:23 PM

Re: Wildcard use in File References - bad idea? - 09-15-2005 , 05:10 PM

Re: Wildcard use in File References - bad idea? - 09-15-2005 , 07:10 PM