I have read some negative things about plugins and the potential slow
performance in a server or networked enviroment and with large
databases.
Anyone care to share their experience with such?
darren
On Oct 13, 9:59 pm, Darren
> I have read some negative things about plugins and the potential slow
> performance in a server or networked enviroment and with large
> databases.
>
> Anyone care to share their experience with such?
Care to provide a cite on where you read that so we can determine the
context?
There are elements of plugins that can have ramifications in networked
environments; for example, new versions of filemaker can run scripts
on the server or on the client, and if using a plugin function that is
not flagged to be able to run on the server, operation must always be
shunted to the client, which in some cases might force considerable
network traffic that would have been uncessary otherwise, as record
data, found set information, etc would have to pushed over.
A second issue might be plugins which can run on the server, its
entirely possible there is considerable overhead (thread creation,
etc??), and with many network users a lot of overhead may be
created... I quite frankly don't know, having never looked into that.
I use plugins pretty sparingly, and primarily for client side stuff
(like sending email, ftping files, etc) so the impact on the network/
server is non-existent.
I'd be interested to hear more about what you read.
I have use plugin for many years, change printer, Script Scheduler and PDM
SQL plug and the last one was the missing link between FM and SQL and it was
real time calculation field that display SQL Data, I was using FMS 5 with
FM6 and it never slow it down...
plugin are drive locally on each station, never by the server.
JF
"Darren"
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>I have read some negative things about plugins and the potential slow
> performance in a server or networked enviroment and with large
> databases.
>
> Anyone care to share their experience with such?
>
> darren
>