Trying Claris Server for on-premise installation was a bit different than FileMaker Server. Maybe it is every few minutes? For new fields from Claris Studio, you have to click the Synchronize button in the database design dialog and add new fields to the layouts manually. I would assume the server pushes changes to the client and vise versa. Not sure what operations trigger a refresh. Later I open the database definition dialog and close it and the table updates. Then you click in Claris Pro and it is not yet there. Further testing may show whether those record IDs are given by server or are set by Claris Pro for the shadow tables only.Ĭhanges in the tables are eventually synchronized. When you now add a record to another table, it gets Record ID 2. The Record ID starts at 1 for first record in first table. It may make sense to add such ID fields to various tables. Those IDs seem to count up over all tables and are not reused. We quickly added a calculation field, which returns Get(RecordID), so we have an ID. But the object ID from MongoDB is not visible in FileMaker.
The MongoDB tables behind do of course have an OID, an object ID like a per record UUID. The Claris Studio tables have no primary key visible. Claris Pro should have the token and decide the login locally for the file. Even if you open a local Claris file, you have to be logged in, even if you just logged in and turned off the Wifi. Normally I would expect that Claris Pro can reauthenticate itself in the background automatically with the stored password and the old token. The permanent login requirement is annoying.
Of course Claris would also need to put their own Claris Studio software on various servers around the globe and connect you to a nearby one. MongoDB would allow to place multiple servers around the globe, which synchronize themselves. Everything talking to a server is quite slow and I would expect Claris has to start with the international rollout of their servers before they start to really sell this to Europeans. While FileMaker Pro and Claris Pro are built from the same source code with a lot of build time switches, they are very similar (99% same), but have some differences in the user interface.Īs an European, you quickly notice the latency to the data center in USA.
Claris Pro Observations We had the chance to try Claris Pro for a few days.
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