Administrator’s Guide (Mac OS)

2-2 FileMaker Pro Server Administrator’s Guide
1 After FileMaker Pro Server is running, use the Open Database button in
the administer window. See “Opening a file as the host” on page 2-8 and
“Opening a database file remotely” on page 2-24 for more information.
1 Drag a multiuser FileMaker Pro file onto the FileMaker Pro Server
application icon. This technique works whether or not FileMaker Pro
Server is already running.
1 Use Apple events to send an open file command to FileMaker Pro Server.
See the FM Pro Server Apple Events sample file (installed in the Apple
Events Information folder in the AppleScript Examples folder in the
FileMaker Pro Server 3.0 Folder) for information on using Apple events
with FileMaker Pro Server.
To open a FileMaker Pro file if FileMaker Pro Server isn’t already running:
1. Be sure the FileMaker Pro file is set to Multi-User.
FileMaker Pro Server can’t open a FileMaker Pro database set to be a
single-user file. To change this option, open the file in FileMaker Pro 3.0
and choose Single-User from the File menu. The menu item changes to
Multi-User.
2. In the Finder, place the FileMaker Pro file or files—or aliases to those
files—that you want FileMaker Pro Server to open in the same folder as
the FileMaker Pro Server application.
Up to 100 multiuser FileMaker Pro 3.0 database files located in the same
folder as (or subfolders one level down of) the FileMaker Pro Server
application are opened when FileMaker Pro Server starts up. For
information on using files from earlier versions of FileMaker Pro, see the
next section, “Converting files from earlier versions of FileMaker Pro.”
3. Double-click the FileMaker Pro Server application icon.
1 You can also drag one or more FileMaker Pro files onto the
FileMaker Pro Server application icon to open specific files.
1 If FileMaker Pro Server is already running, drag the FileMaker Pro file
or files you want opened onto the open FileMaker Pro Server
application icon in the Finder.
FileMaker Pro Server opens the FileMaker Pro files for access by
FileMaker Pro 3.0 guests on the network. You can’t see or modify
information in these files using FileMaker Pro Server.
FileMaker Pro Server displays a message if it can’t open any of the
database files and writes a description of the problem to the FileMaker Pro
Server Log. See “Examining the log file” on page 2-4 and appendix A,
“Technical specifications and optimization,” for more information.
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