At 6:40 AM -0700 11/29/05, Kimball Larsen wrote:
>This may be a real alternative for me. How would you recommend I set
>this up? Cron to dump the MySQL, cron to slurp into FileMaker? Does
>FileMaker have an automated scheduling facility of any sort?
>
>Could I avoid the tab-delimited file if I connect straight to the
>MySQL as an ODBC data source and slurp data directly? If so, can
>this be automated?
Yes, ODBC running on a timed script (plug-ins are available) from a
dedicated robot (client machine logged in) should work.
If timed isn't what you're looking for, then a user could trigger this via
script.
HTH,
Mark
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