[kbata]

I have been playing around with the demo of FMP 7. The new format they have for setting up relationships is almost unusable. I converted a solution I had that has a ton of relationships. When you go to the section to edit or add new relationships instead of having a list of the 30 or so relationships it has a visual layout of all your relationships. This would work fine if you just had a few but when you have lots of them it just looks like a jumbled mess. Sometimes I wonder if the developers have ever used the product. On the plus side there are some nice new features and some fixes for old bugs that seem to make it through each update. If only Apple would bring it back in house and do their magic on it.

[selowitch]

Originally posted by kbata:
I have been playing around with the demo of FMP 7. The new format they have for setting up relationships is almost unusable. I converted a solution I had that has a ton of relationships. When you go to the section to edit or add new relationships instead of having a list of the 30 or so relationships it has a visual layout of all your relationships. This would work fine if you just had a few but when you have lots of them it just looks like a jumbled mess. Sometimes I wonder if the developers have ever used the product. On the plus side there are some nice new features and some fixes for old bugs that seem to make it through each update. If only Apple would bring it back in house and do their magic on it.

Well, this may be cold comfort, but my feeling is that the FM people want to reorient developers toward creating multiple tables within the same database (à la MS Access) instead of creating large nests of relationships with other databases per "traditional" Filemaker techniques.

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by selowitch:
Well, this may be cold comfort, but my feeling is that the FM people want to reorient developers toward creating multiple tables within the same database (à la MS Access) instead of creating large nests of relationships with other databases per "traditional" Filemaker techniques.

You mean FileMaker wanted to move away from their ugly nonstandard hack that they implemented because FM was originally a flat-file database towards being a more standard, advanced relational database?

[selowitch]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
You mean FileMaker wanted to move away from their ugly nonstandard hack that they implemented because FM was originally a flat-file database towards being a more standard, advanced relational database?

Precisely.