# Servoy 5.1 with FileMaker 11 Backend

**URL:** <https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-5-1-with-filemaker-11-backend/12405>\
**Category:** Classic Servoy\
**Created:** [June 28, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-5-1-with-filemaker-11-backend/12405 "2010-06-28T18:59:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![gdurniak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@gdurniak](https://forum.servoy.com/u/gdurniak)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-5-1-with-filemaker-11-backend/12405/1 "2010-06-28T18:59:26Z")

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posted for info only …

I just tried the FileMaker 11 JDBC Driver in Servoy 5.1, and it does appear to work

In FileMaker, you just need to define one field as the “Primary Key”, that is validated always, unique, and not empty

We have solutions in both, so this helps

greg

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**Author:** ![ptalbot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/ptalbot/32/4952_2.png) [@ptalbot](https://forum.servoy.com/u/ptalbot)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-5-1-with-filemaker-11-backend/12405/2 "2010-06-29T01:27:56Z")

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> gdurniak:  
> posted for info only …
> 
> I just tried the FileMaker 11 JDBC Driver in Servoy 5.1, and it does appear to work
> 
> In FileMaker, you just need to define one field as the “Primary Key”, that is validated unique, and not empty
> 
> We have solutions in both, so this helps
> 
> greg

Hi Greg,

I was tempted to say: “But who the hell would want such a crappy back-end for its Servoy solution anyway?”  
Believe me, I know what I’m saying here, FM as a SQL database sounds like an oxymoron. - In any case, a bad joke.

But then as you said, when you have solutions in both, it can help, as a temporary solution/exchange mechanism…  
So thanks for the tip!

Just make sure to migrate your data to a real SQL server asap (there are plenty around and some of them are free and hugely powerful - see PostgreSQL now shipping with Servoy 5.2 now for example).

Best,

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**Author:** ![gdurniak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@gdurniak](https://forum.servoy.com/u/gdurniak)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-5-1-with-filemaker-11-backend/12405/3 "2010-06-29T03:21:06Z")

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we had hoped to be all FileMaker, or all Servoy, but found both had advantages

and as FileMaker gets more complicated, and Servoy gets simpler, the two applications may someday meet in the middle

please note that I was able to imitate ( almost ) my Servoy App, in FileMaker 9, with a JDBC SQL Plugin, the web viewer, and a MySQL ESS Table

( we started with FileMaker 3, and then Servoy 2 )

greg

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**Author:** ![swingman](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.servoy.com/swingman/32/4536_2.png) [@swingman](https://forum.servoy.com/u/swingman)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 10:58am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/servoy-5-1-with-filemaker-11-backend/12405/4 "2010-06-29T10:58:48Z")

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Anyway, it is very useful to know that it is possible – could be handy when doing conversion work.