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Download Claris FileMaker updates and resources – FileMaker and macOS 10.14 Mojave compatibility
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.
Instead, I get the news from colleagues and threads like this one.. On September 24, a blog post here was put out about FileMaker and Mojave.
While Filemaker’s major updates 14, 15, 16 and 17 added a lot of UI functionality and were very welcome for improving the limited way we had to present data, I can not really say I’ve noticed the same for annual OS X releases.
What concerns me more is the now annual version upgrades for both Filemaker and the OS X and the never ending dot version updates which also have to should be tested before going into production. More headaches I don’t need. Nag dialogues for updates and new releases don’t help and hardly reinforce the cautious approach users should take before upgrading. I guess what I’m really pissed at, is lack of stability and bugs in early version releases are considered acceptable in this day and age, marketing and releasing new versions seem more important than bullet proofing what we already have.
I got stung with the hike in maintenance agreement costs this year, I locked in for a further 3 years. I’ll happily take the updates to come over that time as OS X transitions to full 64bit, but when this current maintenance agreement expires I’ll take a cold hard look at the Filemaker platform, FMI have massively increased their “spoils” from the gravy train but are now giving precious little back for the increased cost. Screenshot taken today. No information that there will be an update including Mojave compatility.
I still struggle with this. Maybe, it’s a question of where to set the focus. Maybe there are more important things WIP with all the need of related tools. If the daughter doesn’t have the necessary information – who else? I tried to vote it up but cannot access to your idea, get a “generic” error. Strange, seems to be broken. A three months period for achieving compatibility with a new OS version is fair game. This should be the policy. If there is, for a particular version, need for additional time because of unforeseen difficulties, proactive communication helps a lot.
FMI should make sure that all resellers beginning with Apple proactively communicate existing compatibility limitations i. There could also be a ‘check system compatibility’ button right on the webshop landing page that gives direct access to compatibility information, or a technical FAQ like the one for licensing.
Both FMI and Apple marketing is all about the ease if of use. While I agree somewhat with your comment I think that the product is maturing at a faster rate then we have seen for some time. At last focus is being given to the issues that have prevented FileMaker use in larger scale projects – Clay had a slide that shows the underlying work that is being undertaken to remove the Java stack and replace with Node. JS for the server technology. This is a huge engineering project that will deliver many improvements in the coming years.
They have limited resources, have a seemingly somewhat hands off approach from Apple and a very active marketing team. It must be a struggle internally if you are in the engineering teams. I can second this. V 17 is a net improvement when coming from v 16 and we have to salute FMI for this notable exception: the left-outs in the server GUI.
If marketing touts ease of use ahead of anything else, closing the compatibility gap with a new OS version within 3 months should be part of the planning. If not, a disconnect between marketing and engineering becomes obvious. I do not think that a three months period is cool. There might be reasons for this – but it’s not cool because many people are waiting for new Mac’s I would also expect that FileMaker Go 17 is allready ready for the new 11″ iOS devices – they are not but this is a minor problem, it’s just the screen size that differs a bit.
Not only the missing [operators]. I have a very strange behavior in custom fonction windows too: Every click leaves a blue mark. Don’t upgrade??? Which is somewhat of a shame. Same with my 13″ MBAir. Louis, be happy, you can read the text. From my side, I got the most part of time blank screen. This is not my case, nor is FMP As far as plugins are concerned, this is not possible in all cases.
So I’m forced to deliver a runtime solution to it but no way to plot a graph in the Runtime version of FileMaker unless you add a PlugIn. Same for another more vertical application that requires the use of RSA coded headings, this is not a fantasy, it is the law for this application to be approved by the tax authorities.
It is still surprising that five and a half months after Mojave’s first rush, an Apple branch is not able to deliver a version that works properly on Mojave. Personally, I tried the first beta version of Maojave from June 12th. I mentioned this fact on a thread, the only reaction FileMaker was a threat on the pretext that I exceeded the guidelines of Apple DNA about beta softwares. Again, I got the impression as I right now that FileMaker does not care about the advice of developers and users.
Next year we will have the same state, in May a new version 18 of FileMaker that will be not compatible with the next version of macOS. I’m testing another environment like 4D to do the same thing as FileMaker. This is a huge investment that I made by learning how to use and then develop on FileMaker and I am very disappointed by the lack of engagement of the FMI with members of its community.
We got quite some customers running FM For some of them, going to 17 is planned, for some of them that’s not possible for several reason. I also got virtual machines, besides of the startup time really fine, fast and smooth enough for FileMaker.
But not enough space on the ‘Air’ or on the touchbar MacBook. Mojave VM takes nearly a gig’s Excellent machine with crisp display. Definitely true that budgets and resource allocation play a significant role in this. Budgets and resource allocation reflect priorities and when I see idiotic videos that must cost a lot of money I can’t help but reach the conclusion that marketing is winning those turf battles.
It is completely illegal, and rightly so, for Apple to give any of its subsidiaries a competitive advantage! It is not true to say that FileMaker is the only application with compatibility issues.
Some never will! This is a major Os release, there are bound to be some wrinkles! The blog post certainly does not explicitly say “bury this in the community where only the most devoted users will see it” but it seems to be evident between the lines. Also, it is worth noting that since September 24 the blog post has had only 25 comments where as this one began 2 days ago and already has triple that number.
Thanks to your reminder about it, I now recall reading it and advising some of my clients to hold off until further notice, and the leaders of my local user group mentioned that the consequences are more serious for Server than for Pro.
As to the number of engineers, perhaps you’re right that engineers is too much to expect. If that’s true, I’d like to start the bidding at The quality of some of the responses here shouldn’t be overlooked. People complain about 17 being unusable in Mojave, which is not true. Lots of noise that doesn’t contribute to the discussion. As far as the number of employees, I think guessing veers into the “speculating” category that we’re asked to refrain from in the forums.
I am good friends with many people at FMI and I don’t know how many. I don’t worry. I know they’re working hard to make the platform perfect for us. We are in a cycle that will eventually be broken, because it always happens in IT, particularly as business and large organisations will not accept continous change, there will be a backlash and the likes of IBM and SalesForce, who have publicly been announcing their adoption of Macs, will kick back and demand stability and continuity.
Apple will need to decide if it is only interested in consumers or leave business to Microsoft and Google, Linux or some new upstart as they did with servers. Microsoft appear to have got it, with weekly announcements of new features gradually released within Office No fanfare, no version change, no backwards compatibility issues, just a quiet announcement of something new.
AVLA gives FileMaker the same opportunity if they choose to take it, rather than an annual cycle of bug fixes and no new functionality. Currently, we have about 6-months opportunity to use the current versions of Mac OS X and FileMaker before the cycle starts again. We have no responsibility or influence over these, many are in non-English languages. Even solutions that rely on browsers are not immune from compatibility issues, Safari v12 removed NPAPI, as did Chrome before, that has broken many things until they get fixed.
Yup, higher complexity for us, not our users and cost, but none of the day-to-day issues being raised above. We do feel the pain expressed here, but eventually the industry will wake up and smell the roses. Citing a famous sci-fi movie android: this is madness! We came to the point were botched OS updates turn devices into bricks. So based on the current schedule Since a patch is expected this month. You are of course expecting the patch to fix the issues and not introduce new issues as has happened in the past disappearing scripts.
Personally I’ve been running Server 17 on Mojave without too many issues except for remote user counts not being released. I haven’t done any major development work in 6 months as I’m waiting for things to settle down before I incorporate new UI schemas. I enjoy developing and exploring now ways to utilise FM for our Business processes. But I will not complain to much after 6 years of service without a breakdown.
I can’t care less than I do about not having metal on a machine which will run Filemaker Server for its whole life, without a screen attached to it. This is not exactly what I call “without problems”, but it does allow clients having problems with their old macmini servers who HAVE to buy new hardware to get the latest MacMini , install High Sierra and run FMS 15 on it. Our clients do not care about having the latest OS from Apple. What they care about is to be able to replace a dying – worn out – old – machine with a new one and have exactly the same stuff they had working the same way they are used to.
Because for them Apple is a hardware company and Filemaker a software company. And this simple truth goes often forgotten. You’re welcome. Only a couple extra steps, since recovery mode is required for reinstallation anyhow. If there is any solace, WebDirect is compatible with Mojave If there’s one thing that OS upgrades generally don’t break, that is functionality of the web.
Has the time has come to build for webdirect and ios only? That might be the road happiness. As mentioned elsewhere, we have a couple few? We’ve now disabled the Mac OS upgrade notifications. FMP 15 is installed on those particular Macs and seems to be working fine, so they will stay there for now.
The next version will be 17 unless our test group meets problems, then it’ll be This is business, not “arts and crafts” no offense intended to artists and these non-synchronized version cycles are costly. As developers, we need to run older versions – as long as there are customers who are running those..
We do have VM’s, but it’s easier to work directly on the os of the machine, especially under macOS Windows is better, faster, will startup fast,. It was me who put the 3 months statement. There is no problem with the fact that these things require work and work takes time.
Then there is a target audience called ‘citizen’ developer’. People without an admins knowledge. For everyone and especially for a less tech-savvy audience, those incompatibility issues must be clearly advertised at the places the go to look.
Otherwise they get caught between Apples’ and FMI’s marketing steamrollers who both say: just use it, just go for it. Its all easy and hassle-free. Well, at times it is not, because of the compatibility issues. To be clear: the problem starts with the OS vendor. FMI has limited power over this.
But: the right information at the right time at the right place prevents people from getting trapped and is good customer care. Again for a point of perspective, Microsoft broke their own software as per my original post. Their own update broke their own software and their response and eventual resolution was that a resolution would be released in 2-months.
In other words, anyone using their own software, that they broke, had to go without for 2-months. Thank goodness the community within the above link saved the day. FileMaker are at the behest of Apple, who keep changing things without any continuity consideration, which has always been the case. It is ironic that we have no Windows compatibility issues. By the way, this was delivered today and I’ve already found a really good use for it:.
We’re introducing a new syncing model for sharing calendars in Outlook for Mac. These changes will bring improved reliability and performance of calendar sharing in Outlook for Mac based on the use of REST technology.
This message is associated with Microsoft Roadmap ID: Older hardware? VMware ESXi 6. Many OS options there! And some older Macs can support various Linux distros – great tutorials a Google search away. I really appreciate all the discussion that this has generated. Yes, it started out as a rant because I wanted the discussion to start and was hoping for exactly what has happened.
Generally, a very civil discussion on the state of things and others’ frustration with the delay in the updates. I have read each and every response, and I have been thinking about them all weekend through today. I have come up with a few things that I would like to throw out for consideration by the community and FMI if you are reading this.
I’m just thinking about FileMaker for the next 20 years. I think as a community we need to keep an eye on FileMaker Today, Next Week, Next Year and when we build solutions for our clients, how long we can make them work and last. Until then I will sleep well, thinking about your post. I’ll report back. This is one of the great benefits of going to DevCon. You can sit and talk with people like Clay one of the primary developers of the Draco engine , and other engineers.
You can hear about the vision, what they are working on, and also as important, why they are not working on other things. This year, it was talked about, the underlaying technology. They are make a large shift. The idea is that they can switch out the technology under the hood, and nothing changes for us.
But it allows for both performance, and faster shifts when technology changes. It’s a long term plan. One similar to other areas of the platform that have already seen massive under the hood changes.
We are already starting to see the benefits of changes like that. We will also see more as new stuff is introduced into the platform. The development methodology is not terribly relevant to the product.
FileMaker’s testing process is fairly extensive. That is the reason it takes so long. They do the beta testing, and go through the whole process. Then when the gold master is updated, they do it again. And when the final shipping release happens, they do the process again.
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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? Fix it with FileMaker. Campaign management Product catalog Membership manager Event planner Content library. Case manager Customer surveys Training log Return processing Support contracts. Job tracker Inventory manager Barcode organizer Resource scheduler Equipment maintenance.
The power of the platform. FileMaker Pro. FileMaker Cloud. Create apps on Windows or Mac computers. I am now urged to buy me a new version of Filemaker 17 advanced to run my old programs I hope I can update the files to FM17???
And actually this makes me really angry. I have only two choices: buy or burry. It would be a pity to trash all my developments which I am currently using.
I have database that allow me to do all aquisitions for my lab by a mouse click, etc. I only hope that Filemaker realizes these issues and react appropriately. If I would have known of these issues with Mojave, I would have never upgraded the computer. Miki 24 May