[FX.php List] What to tell a customer that wants to use FM IWP vs PHP/FX

[Blair Duncan]

I've never understood the bad wrap that IWP gets. Usually this is due to
users expecting all of the feature that work fine in the FMPro Client to
work in IWP as well. When they don't, it can be painful to re-engineer to
accommodate IWP and most tend to give up on it.

We have been using IWP for several years and generally like it a lot. IWP
provides a consistent interface that enables users to do a lot of data
entry, perform finds and run reports, trigger automated emails etc.

We use a combination of all three: IWP, FMPro Client and FX.php driven by
FMSA. From within IWP, anything that requires the client such as building
pdfs, emails etc, we have in the corner a FMPro client running as slave to
process the request from the web and return the data to the IWP client. With
the addition of FX.php we have additional arsenal under our belt that has
enabled us to eliminate most of the shortfalls of IWP.


On 10/3/08 2:04 PM, "John Funk" <criticalsolution at comcast.net> wrote:

> I have a Customer with a very large, 500+ layout, 50 Table, convoluted,
> complex and mostly self made database. He "discovered" Instant Web
> Publishing and now he wants to integrate some IWP pages into his solution.
> (This is like a kid in a candy store) I have been trying to sell him on the
> idea of using traditional html pages with PHP (FX) instead. I have many
> reasons why I do not want to go with IWP, but mostly because this customer
> is non technical and thinks he can just make his layouts and they will work
> just like that.
> There are already small parts of the solution that DO use PHP/FX. In the big
> picture I am working on him to let me rewrite the entire FM solution.
>
> I am looking for bullet points that tell the reasons NOT to use IWP vs
> html/php/fx. If there are good reasons to go with IWP, list them also.
>
> Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
>
> John Funk
> Critical Solution
>
>
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