[FX.php List] Working on live systems

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Well, why find out what makes errors, when there are ways to avoid those?

Always use separate layouts for web; I make separate FileMaker layouts
for each set of data I need to query.

By doing this you should be able to avoid most problems in a live system.

ggt

On Dec 6, 2007 10:26 PM, Steve Winter <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> That depends a whole lot on the version of FM that you're using... pre v7,
> when the web serving moved from the client app to the server app, there were
> all sorts of issues and problems, but I've found since then that about the
> only thing that really trips the system up is if you're actually editing the
> specific record which FX is trying to access...
>
> Prior to 7 there was a whole plethora of things that could trip the system
> up, but IIRC from recent posts you're using v8 so things should be fairly
> 'safe'...
>
> YMMV ;-)
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
>
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> I know that there are best practices that say that you shouldn't work
> on live files...but we do anyway...or at least I do.  Sometimes, you
> have to scoot in and make a fix and then scoot right out again.
>
> What actions and/or conditions will generate errors or failures in an
> fx solution?  For example:
>         - Target layout is in Layout Mode in a Remotely opened copy of the
> file
>         - Manage Data is open in target file
>         - Other?
>
>
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