See Accessing external ODBC data sources. If a hosted database is designed to access data from an external SQL data source, you must set up the same ODBC data source name (DSN) on the FileMaker Server primary machine as was set up on the machine running FileMaker Pro when the database was created. See FileMaker Pro Help.Ĭlaris Server only: Use FileMaker Pro to convert files created in FileMaker Pro 11 Advanced, FileMaker Pro 11, and earlier (FP7 files) to the FileMaker Pro 12 format (FMP12 files), and then use Claris Pro to convert the files to the Claris Pro format (CLARIS files). Use FileMaker Pro to convert files created in FileMaker Pro 11 Advanced, FileMaker Pro 11, and earlier (FP7 files) to the FileMaker Pro 12 format (FMP12 files). Note that clients running versions 17 of FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Pro Advanced, and FileMaker Go cannot use FileMaker Pro 19 features.Ĭlaris Server only: Claris Server supports these clients: Claris Pro and Claris Go. See Verifying databases are available to FileMaker clients.įileMaker Server only: FileMaker Server 19 supports these clients: FileMaker Pro Advanced version 18 and FileMaker Pro version 19 and FileMaker Go versions 18 and 19. Verify the status of your files on the Databases page, and verify that the files are available to FileMaker clients. See Uploading database files using FileMaker Pro. Upload the database files to FileMaker Server. The steps below provide an overview of the process.Įdit the accounts and privileges sets that clients will use for shared access.

Before you can share FileMaker Pro database files, it's important to prepare the files for hosting.

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