Guide to Updating Plug-ins

Performance and usage tips B-3
1 FileMaker Server administration allows several operations to be
performed simultaneously on all of the files in a single subfolder. For
example, you can use Pause, Resume, Close, and Open from the
command line, or you can use Back up and Send Message from a
scheduled task (Windows and Mac OS). To take advantage of this
feature, place related databases into the same subfolder. When
FileMaker Server is started, these files are hosted as a group.
1 Up to a maximum of 125 files can be made accessible to
FileMaker Pro 5.x guests on the network. Each FileMaker Pro guest
can open a maximum of 50 files. Since FileMaker Server can host up
to 125 files, it is possible to have multiple files available for access
by multiple workgroups.
1 Remember that double-clicking a FileMaker Pro file opens that file in
FileMaker Pro 5.x, not FileMaker Server. See “Hosting
FileMaker Pro 5.x files” on page 7-8 (Windows and Mac OS) or
“Administering FileMaker Server” on page 9-1 (Red Hat Linux) to learn
about opening files with FileMaker Server.
1 FileMaker Server displays a message if it can’t open the selected
database file and writes a description of the problem to the
Application Log (Windows) or the server event log (Mac OS) or
/var/log/fmserver/events.log (Red Hat Linux). For more
information, see “Using reported events to track activities” on
page 7-18 (Windows and Mac OS) or “Using reported events and
statistics to track activities” on page 9-13 (Red Hat Linux).
1 If the database file you’re hosting uses the Today function to
calculate dates, you must close and reopen it using FileMaker Server
each day to update the dates correctly. See “Recalculating the Today
function in hosted databases” on page 7-20 for more information.