So my wife works at a smaller higher-ed graduate school and the IT dept. forced her dept. to move their filemaker Pro 6 database to the server instead of housing it on an iMac in their deptartment which was networked and accessable from any comptuer in the dept. Now that there is a problem the IT dept. says her dept. just pay for a consultant to fix it cause they have no $ or people to fix it. It was working fine the way it was until they moved it!
Here is the problem- For some reason when my wife adds a contact now that new contact isn't accessable from the other computers in the dept. What is weird is that she can only access that database when connected to the network at school. So I can only assume that there are multiple copies being saved someplace on the server but IT is so stupid they can't/won't figure it out.
There are roughly a few thousand contacts in the database. Each user(6) would have added 10-15 new contacts each.
Here are my questions- If they find multiple databases have been saved on the server by each user, is it easy to merge those databases?
If merging is not a good (or easy) option, is there a way to sort out the most recent additions to the database by sorting by date- Note- there is NOT a defined field which has the date. But I didn't know if Filemaker records when something is entered anyway and could sort by it?
Sorry for the lengthy thread and lack of detail- let me know if you need more detail.
Here is the problem- For some reason when my wife adds a contact now that new contact isn't accessable from the other computers in the dept. What is weird is that she can only access that database when connected to the network at school. So I can only assume that there are multiple copies being saved someplace on the server but IT is so stupid they can't/won't figure it out.
There are roughly a few thousand contacts in the database. Each user(6) would have added 10-15 new contacts each.
Here are my questions- If they find multiple databases have been saved on the server by each user, is it easy to merge those databases?
If merging is not a good (or easy) option, is there a way to sort out the most recent additions to the database by sorting by date- Note- there is NOT a defined field which has the date. But I didn't know if Filemaker records when something is entered anyway and could sort by it?
Sorry for the lengthy thread and lack of detail- let me know if you need more detail.