Developer’s Guide (Mac OS)

Distributing your bundled solution 5-11
Updating a solution
You will need to update your solution if you want to make feature
enhancements, modifications, or if you want to add additional files.
You can update a solution by making modifications to the primary file
and sending that file to your end-users. If you are adding more files, you
need to bind those files with the original key used when you bound the
primary file.
Note To update a primary file, the name and binding key must be the
same as when you originally bound the file. If you change the name of
the primary file, you need a new FileMaker Pro Runtime application.
See “Changing or creating solutions” on page 4-7.
Updating the primary file
To update a primary file:
1. Open the original primary file in FileMaker Pro 3.0.
2. Make the changes to the primary file.
As long as the key and the filename have not changed, you don’t need
to rebind the primary file.
3. Send your end-users a copy of the new primary file.
4. Create scripts that import end-users’ existing data into the new
primary file.
Important When you make a change to your solution, you should make
sure that your end-users can import their data into your updated solution.
Include a script attached to a button to make it easy for your end-users
to import their data into the new solution files.