FileMaker Extra: Other Tools of the Trade

FileMaker Extra Other Tools of the Trade

A number of the important tools you can use to avoid or diagnose trouble in your FileMaker systems were touched on in this chapter. Many of these are development practices, and a few, such as the Script Debugger, are available within the FileMaker product line. But there are also a number of third-party tools that can provide valuable diagnostics. As a rule, these tools analyze the structure and logic of a FileMaker system and produce output that warns you about potential difficulties with the files. Not all these tools were known to be available for FileMaker 8 at the time of this writing, but we fully expect them all to make to leap to 7 soon after the product is released. In general, these tools analyze an existing FileMaker file set and produce an interactive report (either in HTML or as a set of FileMaker databases).

These tools are all worth serious consideration. Each has strengths and weaknesses. As a FileMaker developer it's worth your while to invest in at least one of this type of tool, or possibly several, depending on your needs.

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