It has been many years since I have used FileMaker Pro. In fact, I all but swore it off the last time I used it. Why? Well, back then I was still self-employed and one of our first clients wanted to take an existing FileMaker Pro application and turn it into a web app. Simple enough I thought. Wrong boyo! Long and short of it, FileMaker Pro was not good at exporting in a way that MySQL could import. Long project, never finished.
Fast forward to this month. I have been working on getting an existing application to work with new features mandated by our production team. We are outsourcing some aspects of our operation and need to track those persons involved from outside the office. Not too bad. In the time I have been on the project, about two weeks, my appreciation for FileMaker Pro has been reestablished. It may not get everything done, but it works well for the in-house projects so many of use need to get done and off our desks.