 Hello everyone, thanks for attending. My name is Ryan Minook. I'm a Solutions Consultant at FileMaker and we have a fantastic webinar for you today. I'm joined by fellow Solutions Consultant Ronnie Rios who will make the case for why FileMaker Server should be hosting your solutions. But before we get started, let's spend the next minute or two covering a few brief housekeeping notes. For the best experience, it is strongly recommended that you participate in this webinar with at least a broadband connection. If you have any problems, require online assistance at any time, please contact Citrix Technical Support at 888-259-8414. Now throughout today's presentation, you'll have the opportunity to type in and ask questions. So let's talk briefly about how to do that. Go to the control panel, click on the question section, enter your question and click send. And we'll try to answer as many as time allows at the end of our presentation, but remember, you don't need to wait until then to submit a question. And with that, let me introduce Ronnie Rios. Thank you, Ryan, and welcome everybody to our webinar. I'm really, really excited to be here. So let's get started right away. Before we get started, I want to introduce everything with a little story. And it's a story that we hear very often here at FileMaker from a lot of our customers, not only like yourselves. And let's pretend for a few minutes that I am the owner and manager of a small but growing company in the landscaping industry. And I was participating in a webinar not too long ago about FileMaker, and I identified FileMaker as a probably good solution for me to tackle some of the tasks that I have in my business. So I went in with FileMaker Pro and developed this little solution for them. Now the solution is pretty small, it's not too complex, but it really addresses a lot of our needs. Now it's helping me manage all of our customer information. I can see all the work that we've done for particular customers. It's helping me manage some of their documentation, the contracts that we have with our customers. Now so far, the solution really resides here on my desktop. I developed it here on my own computer and retired here. And so far, I'm the only one who has access to it. All of my employees are really giving me the information. I'm going ahead and putting it here in the solution. Now as time goes by, the database starts to grow and the data starts to become a lot more important. And also I'm tweaking a little bit the solution, so it's becoming a little bit more robust. But I notice that if to really kind of take advantage of our solution, I really need to be able to collaborate with all my employees. Everybody needs to be able to have access to the information that I have here on my desktop solution and collaborate in real time so we can gather insight and take the size of action towards our goal. So in learning a little bit about FileMaker, I discovered that there is a sharing functionality built into FileMaker Pro. It's called peer-to-peer sharing. So this enables me to share the content of my solution with everybody that's on my network. It's very easy to activate. It's very easy to use. If I go here into the share menu here the taskbar, open over here, I have an option here that says share with FileMaker and FileMaker clients. Turn it on, click on OK. And by doing so, everybody that's on my network has the ability now to log in using FileMaker Pro and their computers or FileMaker Go on their iPads or iPhones. So I'll show you exactly what that looks like. This is my iPad and I've already downloaded FileMaker Go from the iTunes App Store. FileMaker Go is our iOS client and allows us to run FileMaker solutions from our iOS devices. So I'm going to go ahead and tap in here to FileMaker Go and host. I can see my computers over here and I can see my customer files. It's amazing, right? It's really great. So now I have the same solution that I have on my desktop, have all the information available to me on my iPad no matter where I go here in the office. So now I can go into meetings and ask for the information that I have on my desktop from my iPad. This also means that any one of my employees from their computers can also access the information from their Mac or Windows computer using FileMaker Pro. And the information is updated in real time. So that means that if I went here on my iPad and changed the information over here, say changed the last name here, Doris, changed to Smith, as I changed there, it automatically changes here on my desktop. So we're guaranteed to always be looking at the same information at the same time across our network. This is really great. It's going to improve our productivity. However, peer-to-peer has a couple of limitations. The first thing is I can share my solution with up to five connected users at any given time. So that means if my team grows to be on five more employees, we'll kind of hit a roadblock there. The other thing is that the file here lives on my desktop. So it really kind of is dependent on my computer. So in order for others to be able to access this file, my computer has to be turned on, not sleeping or hibernating. It has to be completely on, FileMaker Pro has to be running, and the solution file has to be open as well. If I decided at one day that I wanted to go home early and try to attempt to close the file, I would get notified that there are people connected to my solution. That means that if I leave early, I'm getting everybody to close the shop early as well. It's probably not what I want to do. So this and there are other limitations about FileMaker. FileMaker is peer-to-peer sharing when it comes to deploying your solution. It's kind of things that we want to address today. So this is a FileMaker server webinar. So you can probably imagine that a lot of these limitations can be solved with FileMaker server. Let's have a little closer look at some of these. So let's kind of illustrate what we've done so far. So I built and started running my solution on my desktop computer. I used FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Pro Advanced. I then turned on the sharing functionality and was able to access the solution using FileMaker Pro on either Windows or Mac. And I can also use FileMaker Go from an iOS device like an iPhone or an iPad. So again, it can access FileMaker Pro or Go and up to five users can connect to it. What exactly is FileMaker Server that I think can solve our problems? Well, FileMaker Server is software for managing and sharing database solutions that can then be accessed from FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go, and FileMaker WebDirect clients. So it's really a software that you need to install on a computer. And the computer I normally install it to will normally be referred to as a server. And that's just another name for a computer that's being dedicated to provide services throughout the network. Normally this computer is going to be stored at a secure location either in the office or off site, probably in a room dedicated for this type of information technology equipment, but it's just a computer. Otherwise it's just a computer. Now FileMaker Server isn't just one piece of software. It actually has multiple components in it that work together in order to provide services that we're seeing. So there are several components. The one that most people are familiar with in FileMaker Server is the admin console or the administrative console. And this is a web application. You can access it from a web browser that allows us to configure and set up FileMaker Server. It's the one that we're mostly going to be interacting with in order to set up FileMaker Server. The other component is another component is the database server. And this is the component that's really responsible for hosting our database files. It's the one that's going to make our solution files available to FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go, and FileMaker WebDirect clients. There's also a web publishing engine component in FileMaker Server. And when we deploy our solutions to the web, the web publishing engine is in charge of taking the information of our solution files and converting it into a format that web browsers can interpret. We then need a web server that's going to kind of deliver the information that last mile to the web browser. So it communicates with the web publishing engine through a piece of software that we call the web server module. So the web server module works as a conduit between the web publishing engine and the web server. If we use the custom web publishing engine with PHP, the PHP engine is also required to interpret the PHP code in which we've built our application in order to run on the server and deploy our solution. So where does FileMaker Server sit in the overall scheme of the FileMaker Universe platform? Well, let's have a quick look at all the components or all the all the products that form the FileMaker platform. So first off, we have FileMaker Go here on the left. In FileMaker Go, we kind of mentioned that we saw it out here on my iPad. It's the iOS application that we use to access FileMaker solutions from an iOS device, which could be an iPhone, an iPad, or even an iPod Touch. It's freely available from the iTunes app store, so you can go ahead and download it whenever you have a chance. Then we have FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advance. Now, this is a desktop application that we have been using to create our solution, but also to access solutions directly from our computers. It is the software that we mostly use for all the configuration and building and designing our solutions. On the right, we have FileMaker WebDirect, which is a brand new client in the FileMaker platform. It takes our existing FileMaker layouts and reproduces them into HTML5s to be accessed and consumed from a web browser. All you need is really a modern web browser, a supported modern web browser, to access FileMaker solution and have a completely interactive experience directly from a web browser. It's pretty amazing. Then the bottom, in the center of it all, you have FileMaker Server. It truly is the supporting piece of the entire platform. We think about it as the heart and soul of the platform. It's the one that enables all this amazing features to run and be able to deploy it to all these clients, be able to host all the information and be able to manage it very easily. So probably thinking, well, why do I need FileMaker Server? Well, if you ever ask yourself or ever wanted to do any of the things that's listed here, then you absolutely need FileMaker Server in your deployment. So if you ever wanted to know who's accessing your data, how and when they do it, if you ever wanted to kind of administrate all the solution files, we started with one in our example, but maybe you have multiple solutions. You probably will be able to access and deploy brand new solutions very easily. If you ever wanted to secure the information a lot more than you could with just peer-to-peer, even secure the information that's being transmitted from server to client. If you ever wanted to store the information in a centralized computer in a secure location, what about backups? If you're really kind of ask yourself how important is your data? Is it correctly backed up? Peer-to-peer, there's a lot of limitations on how I can do that. And if you ever wanted to deploy interactive web solutions without learning how to code and kind of learn web development, then FileMaker Server is a must in your deployment. So let's look at some of these things in a little bit more detail. Let's start with administration. So in our example, we started with a simple kind of one solution here to administrate our customers and the work that we've done with them. But down the road, I'm probably going to want an invoicing solution. I'm probably going to have something to manage inventory and things like that, maybe some asset tracking, documents tracking, and things like that. So this is going to become harder and harder for me to administrate all of these databases, because if I do peer-to-peer, I would never have to have them all open at the same time on my computer. I mean, it's multiple windows there. It would be kind of pretty hard. With FileMaker Server, administration becomes very easy. Using the administrative console that I've mentioned earlier, we can see and we can administrate very easily all the databases files that are open. I can close the ones that I don't need. I can remove them. I can upload brand new ones and kind of get a pretty good idea of all the solutions that are running. I can also see the health of my server. I can see how well it's running and who's been logging in, at what time, and how they're logging in as well. I'd like to show you how easy it is to do all this. I'm going to go ahead and break away from here real quick. I'm going to go ahead and open up my browser here. This is the administrative console. So it's all, like I said, it's all in the web browser. When I log in and it goes directly here to the status page, I can quickly see the status of my FileMaker server. I can see all the components are running and quick information about what's going on. By clicking here in the activity, I can see all the databases that I have running at any given time. By clicking on any one of them, I can do several operations on it. I can close them and open it up again, perform a verification. I can pause it from running. I can even send a message to all the users that are connected to that particular database file. I could let them know that it would do maintenance and that they need to log off for a minute or two. I can also, if we're not using that file, go ahead and remove it directly here from the administrative console. Here in statistics, I can monitor the health of my FileMaker server. I can get quick statistics here of what's going on. More importantly, I can see graphical representation of some of these points. For example, I can see this. It looks like there was a lot of activity this morning. I can zoom into that and see what was going on. Look at different data points. Overall, see what's been going on with my server. Here in the long view, I can look at more specifically all the events that have happened to the server. I can see absolutely every single thing that's happened so far since the server has been started. Every single event since including opening databases in your restarts or anything like that, but I can even narrow it down. Let's say I want to see how many times our invoices database has been opened by whom. I can go ahead and filter this a little bit. I'll type in here, invoices, and filter here all the log entries. I can see now every single time there are invoices solution was open and closed by all the users. I can see every single time that was open or closed. It's pretty handy sometimes. Very good. Let's go back here and talk a little bit more about some of the other benefits, like scaling. I mentioned earlier that with my solution that I'm running here from my desktop, I have the ability to run my solution and share it with up to five connected users. That's the limitation there as far as growing with peer-to-peer. If my business were to grow and I really hope it does, I'm hoping to have more than five employees working for me. By relying on peer-to-peer, it won't be able to grow with me. If I make a server, however, I can host up to 125 files simultaneously and hundreds of users can be connected at any given time. They can all connect directly from their desktop, from their mobile devices, or even from their browser. I need to ask myself how will my business be impacted? My solution can't grow with me. With FileMaker Server, I'm pretty sure that all solutions will be able to run and be able to take care of the capacity of our business as it keeps growing. Another important benefit of FileMaker, including FileMaker Server in the environment, is security. Security is on top of everybody's mind nowadays. Now, nothing that there isn't any security with peer-to-peer, but FileMaker Server introduces some enhancements in the security model in FileMaker Platform. First off, we can include external server authentication. What this means is that if my organization is already using a directory service to provide credentials for other systems in my company, then I can leverage those and have people log into my FileMaker solutions using the same credentials that they're using elsewhere in other solutions that are in the company. I can use Active Directory if we're running on a Windows machine or can use Open Directory if we're running on a Mac environment. The other important aspect of security enhancement when using FileMaker Server has to do with the encryption over the wire and coding all the information that's being transmitted from FileMaker Server to the FileMaker clients. We use an industry standard SSL encryption. It's the same security that your bank uses when you log into their website. You probably notice when you go to your bank's website there's a little padlock there in the address bar. The little padlock indicates that every single piece of information that's being transmitted from your bank's server to your web browser is encoded for security measure. We can do the same thing here on FileMaker Server and there's even a visual security indicator with a little padlock that we see on our web browser. Actually, it's so easy to turn on. It actually wants to show it to you. I'm going to go ahead and break away again here. I'm going to go here where it says database server and under the security tab here in the database server, let's say down here I've got an option called secure connections. If I turn on require secure connections, save the changes, I'll go ahead and back here to FileMaker Pro and see what happens. So I'm going to go ahead and open up a solution file that I have on my server and notice that down here there's a little padlock here on the lower left. The same padlock you would see on your web browser when you log into your bank's website or any other secured website. It's indicating that we're using an encryption, using SSL encryption, to encrypt all the information that's being transmitted from the server here to my client. So just by turning on that little checkbox, I've enhanced the security here in my overall solution and throughout my company. I'm protecting the data from eavesdropping from anybody on the network. It's pretty amazing if you think about it just by clicking on the little checkbox, we've enhanced greatly the security of the entire solution. Another important aspect of FileMaker Server that brings to as far as benefit goes is inserting FileMaker Server in your environment. It has to do with backups. Now going back to our original story, I'm hosting my information from using peer to peer on my computer. If everyone needs to do a backup, I have to close the database file in order to make a copy of it and we know what happens if I have to close the file. It means everybody else on my network or my employees have to stop working. They have to close the file first. So I would have to close the file, make a copy, as a backup, and then reopen the solution files so we can continue working. Now that's a serious interruption in the workflow of my company. I really don't like that. The other thing is that I have to remember to do that. It's a manual process. So if I wanted to backup every single day, I have to remember to do that whenever I come into the office or before I leave. If I don't come into the office one day, then that means the backup does not get done. That's pretty serious. I'm not protecting my data the way it should. Also if anything would happen to my computer, the data would probably be lost. So I have to be very careful about that. FileMaker Server really kind of solves this problem by automating and scheduling backups. It allows us to keep multiple copies per schedule and it also keeps multiple copies per time frame. So we can have several copies, maybe we can have a schedule for daily, for weekly, or even monthly backups. And for each one of those, we can have multiple copies. And it's very, very easy to do. Let's go ahead and show you how to do that. I'm going to go ahead and open it once again here at the admin console. This time of year, I'm going to go to the schedule section. And when you install FileMaker Server, it automatically creates three schedules for you, three backup schedules for you. It creates a daily, an hourly, and a weekly. And it enables the daily one. So even if you forget to do this after I install FileMaker Server, FileMaker Server is actually already doing a daily backup for me. So even if I forget, I'm already getting backups, which is pretty awesome. Right, so let's say I want to create a new scheduled backup. And I want a backup roughly monthly. I want to keep a monthly backup. Go over here to this menu and create a brand new schedule. The schedule could do one of many tasks, but for now, we're going to kind of focus here on the backup. Over here, I can choose which database files I want to back up. I can choose which database files, but for now, I'm going to let FileMaker Server back up all the database files. Over here, I can choose where I want the destination of the backups to be, and how many copies I want to keep for this particular scheduled backup. Because I'm doing it monthly, I think I'll keep 12 copies. This will give me roughly about a year's worth of backup for this particular schedule. Down here, I can even include verification process. I can have FileMaker Server verify the backup file before it completes, or even save a clone copy of the file. A clone copy is just a copy of the file with no data in it. For now, I'm just going to leave those off. So over here, I need to choose what frequency I want here for this backup. I can do daily, weekly, or every number of days. I'm going to choose here a number of days. I'm going to start doing that today, and I want to choose a time that actually nobody here is in the office. So I know that unless we're burning the midnight oil, nobody's here at 11 p.m., so I'll leave it at that. And here, I need to know how many, after every number of days, a number of days, we're going to do this backup. So I kind of want to do it roughly every month, so I'll put 30 there. Finally, I have to give it a name, and I could have FileMaker Server send me an email notification every time the backup occurs. I'll leave that off for now. Verify all the information, and finish. That's it. I've already set up a backup schedule that will run every 30 days starting today at 11 p.m., and I'll automatically backup all of my database files for me. I just set it, forget about it, and I'm protecting all of my information from any disaster that might happen. It's pretty awesome. You think about it how easy it is to set these up and have your information protected. So let's go back here. The other great thing about FileMaker Server is that, especially now in FileMaker Server 13, is that it allows us to deploy our solutions to the web. Now, more and more, the workers are working from home. Maybe for our particular business, we want our customers to be able to have access to their information, so they can update their information by themselves. Maybe we want vendors to be able to access a portion of our solution so they can see orders and maybe place their own orders. So it comes very often that we want to make available a portion of our solution to external parties or people who are going to be accessing our solution that may or may not have a copy of FileMaker Pro on their computer. So this is where FileMaker WebDirect comes in. FileMaker WebDirect allows us to deploy our solution or a portion of it and be able to make it accessible through the web browser. FileMaker WebDirect takes our existing layouts and reproduces them into HTML5, which is a standard in web technology. But the great thing about it is that it does that completely without us having to learn any web programming whatsoever. So there is no JavaScript, no CSS that I have to learn. It simply takes my existing solution and makes it available and converts it on the fly. The great thing about the solution is it works pretty much the same way that we would expect FileMaker Pro to work. It's kind of desktop style solution with a lot of interactivity that we've come to learn and love about FileMaker. This includes live data updates and live updates on the solutions. So it guarantees basically that all of our users that are using our solution have the most updated version of our solution and also the data. I don't have to worry about redeploying or refreshing or anything like that. So I'd like to show you this in a minute, but first let's go back here to our story. So I've come back over here and I've got my solution. I've got my solution here. We've got a sharing now with all the users here that are all my employees here in my office. But now I've installed FileMaker Server here somewhere in my network and have a little server that's tucked away in a secure location in my office. So now I'm ready to move this solution that I've created onto the server. It's actually very, very easy to do. If you noticed earlier when I opened up the share menu, there's actually two options here. I chose earlier here share with FileMaker clients. There's another option over here that says upload to FileMaker Server and it does exactly what the name implies. So I can upload the file directly here from FileMaker Pro. I'll choose this here. It tells me I need to close the file before I upload it. I'll search here for the server that's on my network. I need to provide credentials that say that I have the necessary authority to upload the file to the server and simply upload the file. It's easy as that this file has been already uploaded to the server. What you're seeing here now is not the local version of the file but the hosted one on the server. I know that because the name over here next to my solution file has the name of my server and also down here I notice that there's a little padlock which again indicates that there's a secure connection between the server and my FileMaker Pro client. So that means that the file that I created earlier, I can actually lose that. That file could and it might, something might happen to it all by a complete accident and it wouldn't interrupt my work because all my information is now resides on the server and is being backed up daily and monthly. It's being protected by FileMaker server. So all my information is there. I could just close my computer, go off early today and everybody will be able to continue working just as usual. But the great thing about it at FileMaker server again is to make it available to everybody. So let's see what that looks like. I'm going to go ahead back here into my iPad and see how I can access that solution file from my iPad. So back here in FileMaker Go, tap here and host and I see my server tap in there and I can see a list of all the files that are being hosted. I can see the customer file, tap into it and just like before I can see, I can access that solution file from FileMaker Go. The difference here is that, as I mentioned earlier, you have this little padlock over here which once again is indicating that it's a secure connection with the server. It's really amazing. But we were kind of talking about FileMaker WebDirect and how to access the solution from the web browser. So I still need to do one more thing before I enable that. So I need to turn FileMaker WebDirect on. So I'll come back here to FileMaker Pro, enable access from FileMaker WebDirect. Now I'm going to go back here into web browser, open up a brand new web browser and go to the FileMaker WebDirect page. I see the customer database, click on it and that's it. I can access the same solution from my web browser very easily. So at this point I can access the solution from pretty much anywhere I am. As many people as I basically want, all the members of my company can actually access it from really wherever they are and using whatever client they want to do. And while FileMaker WebDirect, like I said earlier, really acts very similar to FileMaker Pro is that it's completely interactive. So it would work kind of the same way if I went over here and did some changes. Say I changed Doris' name, last name to Do. Click over here and notice how it automatically updates across all the other clients. It works both ways. If I went back here and changed it back to what it was before, on the iPad it changes and on the web browser it changes as well. So again, I'm ensuring that the data is exactly the same everywhere. So everybody is looking at the most current version of the data no matter where they are, no matter how they're accessing the solution. You're probably asking yourself, well, how did I get the solution? How do I make the solution here for FileMaker WebDirect? Like I mentioned earlier, there really is no web programming whatsoever. We're going to use the same skills that we've learned in FileMaker Pro in order to deploy this web application. So let me show you what that looks like. I'm going to go back here to FileMaker Pro and I'm going to go here to edit layout, I'm going to layout editing mode. And I'm going to make a couple of changes just so you can see what happens. I'm going to go ahead and click here on this label. I'm going to go ahead and make some changes that are definitely visible. I'm going to change the color over here and I'll probably just move the location just a little bit so you can see what happens. I'm going to go ahead and exit. In case you noticed, in case you haven't noticed, here on the web browser it automatically updated. I didn't have to do any refresh shows, I didn't have to reinstall or redeploy anything, automatically updated. And I did on all clients. This is kind of the beauty and the power of FileMaker Server. Again, it is really kind of the heart and soul of the platform and making all these technologies possible. I really love this. All right, so let's update our story over here. So I've included FileMaker Server into my environment. But a couple of things remain the same. I still design and build my solution using FileMaker Pro on my desktop. But now in order to deploy and manage my solution, I upload my file into FileMaker Server. FileMaker Server makes it available to run on any one of these clients. I can use it from, I can access from an iPhone, an iPad, iPad Touch, iPad Touch. I can access from FileMaker Pro using either Windows or a Mac computer. Or I can access from any supported web browser using FileMaker WebDirect. So with that, I've addressed several of the concerns I had earlier with my peer-to-peer configuration. Now my environment is very easy to manage. I can see all the solutions that I have running. I can upload and remove the files that I don't need. It scales with me. I'm not limited to just five users. I can go up to hundreds of users simultaneously. It's secured. It's added additional security measures into the environment like SSL encryption so I can encrypt all the communication between server and the client. It's also protecting my files using backups. So automatically backing up all my information so that there's any disasters I'm covered. And also now I can access my information from any web browser. So anybody even outside my network, as long as I open it up for them, they can access the solution from a web browser. So kind of quickly going through that, compare it here directly with peer-to-peer. Again, see up to five users here in peer-to-peer, kind of unlimited with FileMaker Server. There's really no restrictions. I can see statistics and logs in FileMaker Server, secure network traffic, easy to back up, and the new FileMaker WebDirect for accessing the solution. So maybe now you're asking yourself, well, why do I need in order to have FileMaker Server in my environment? Well, quickly let's talk a little bit about some of the operating system requirements. So you'll only need a computer where you install FileMaker Server. And here are the operating systems that we currently support. So again, you can either install it on macOS or in a Windows environment. Either one is fine. And these are the versions of the operating system we support. I'm not going to dive too much into the details here, but I want to bring up a couple of important notes about this. Notice that on the Windows side, all the operating systems supported are 64-bit. That's because FileMaker Server is a 64-bit environment. It supports and takes advantage of 64-bit addressing. It's really amazing. It's a manager that can use a lot of RAM if that's available. Also notice that although we do support a couple of workstation operating systems, we highly recommend that you install FileMaker Server on a server-grade operating system. It's just a lot more robustness and not more reliability in a server-grade operating system. I will note that on the Mac side, you'll probably notice that OS X Mavericks 10.9 server is not included on the list. It is currently not supported. It's not an admission on my part. On the hardware side, the requirements for FileMaker Server are actually quite small, if you think about it. These are both minimum and the recommended configurations on the hardware side. So looking at the recommended, a four-core CPU, four gigs of RAM, and 80-gig hard drive. That's almost about any computer out there will work. I do recommend that you get server-grade hardware for it, but as you can see here, the requirements are pretty low. It doesn't really matter also if it's a physical machine or if it's a virtual server. FileMaker Server will work on either one. It makes no distinction between physical or virtual. Well, as we mentioned before, we are going to try to answer as many questions as we possibly can. So in case you haven't submitted your questions yet, I'll go over a couple of other pieces of information while you submit your questions. So first off, there's a lot of information out there thanks to our community. The FileMaker Technical Network is a great place to gather and get information and share knowledge with other people out there. You can get tips from a lot of experts that are in the community that are willing to share their knowledge with others. And you can also have access to technical briefs, how-to articles, and white papers. Account access to the FileMaker Technical Network requires a free account. It's completely free to gain access to the FileMaker Technical Network. However, there is also a subscription account. It's FileMaker Developer Subscription. It's a yearly subscription and it brings with it additional benefits. One of those which I think is particularly useful is access to a FileMaker Server Development License. You get a license to FileMaker Server which you can download and install on the computer and use it for development purposes. You'll be able to connect three FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go, and FileMaker WebDirect users at any given time and which is great and great and more than enough for development environment. Here are a couple of other resources that you might find helpful. You can download, you can actually download a free trial version of FileMaker Server from our website. There's also a lot of great documentation on our website. Three are really kind of special regarding FileMaker Server, which is FileMaker Server 13 Getting Started Guide, the general hardware considerations for FileMaker Server, and the FileMaker 13 WebDirect Guide. All three great resources when you're thinking about FileMaker Server deploying it in your environment. Some additional resources. On our website you can also see some great customer success stories. We can see other customers that may be in the same industry that you are and how they've used FileMaker to, how they've levered FileMaker to solve their business needs. There's also other webinars just like this one covering a lot of other topics, things that we could not cover today. And also on the FileMaker Training resources under our support section of our website there's a lot of training information, including information on the FileMaker Training series, which is the official training documentation of FileMaker. And it's the roadmap in order to get the FileMaker Developer Certification. So with that we're going to open it out here for questions. I'm going to answer as many questions as we possibly can. All right, thanks, Ronnie. This is Ryan Minook again, and thanks, Ronnie, for that fantastic webinar. All right, so let's go ahead and get started with that Q&A. The first question we have lined up, are there any limits to the number of connections to the WebDirect at any given time? So we've tested FileMaker WebDirect and we currently support up to 50 concurrent connections to FileMaker WebDirect using FileMaker WebDirect connection to FileMaker Server. That being said, there is really no hard limit in software. So that means if connections 51 were to be initiated, FileMaker Server would not reject it. So it can go beyond that. It's just that 50 is the number of connections that we currently support, and we've fairly tested in our lab. And let me also throw in that the WebDirect connections, which we call concurrent connections, you can purchase those in five packs. So if you actually purchase, you know, say you purchase two five packs and have 10, you wouldn't be able to go to beyond those 10 connections. But there's a packs up to 50 and then we have an unlimited license. All right, the next question. Can FileMaker Server be running on a Windows-based server? Your demo was entirely on a Mac. I should make a correction there. So FileMaker Server can run on either Windows or Mac. We kind of displayed quickly the operating system that we support. But quite honestly, in my demo, even though you didn't see it, FileMaker Server was running on Windows server, even though I was accessing it from a Mac. It kind of goes to show how we reverse it all with our software is. Okay, the next question. Do I have to back up my entire database with each backup? Do you have to back up the entire database file? So it sounds like maybe you have to do full backups or can we do an incremental backup? So yeah, we didn't have much time to show all the tools that are available for backing up in FileMaker Server. There's actually two distinct tools in FileMaker Server for performing backups. The one that we explored today was the schedule backups. The schedule backup does a full copy of the database file as long as it's changed to the last backup. Now the other tool that we have is called progressive backup. Progressive backup is more like it is an incremental backup. The progressive backup does that when you turn it on the first time, it does a full backup. And then the second time it runs, it keeps track of only the changes that have occurred to the database file since the last backup. It applies those changes to the backup and updates it to the current version. Kind of the benefit here is that we can create backups that are a lot more frequent than we could with scheduled backups. So we can do this instead of hours or days that we could with scheduled backups. With progressive backup, we can actually make updates kind of on the minutes. So we could have potentially a backup that runs every 10 minutes with very little performance decrease on the server. We didn't have time to cover that today, but that is another tool in the arsenal in FileMaker Server. Perfect. Okay, the next question is about hardware. Can we install FileMaker Server 13 on a Mac mini? Absolutely. As long as the system requirements are met, the ones that we mentioned earlier, so a macOS 10.8 or 10.9, and the hardware requirements are correct. Yes, absolutely. Okay, so the next question. How does FileMaker Server 13 handle intermittent Wi-Fi connections? Could my company use it in some locations, have Wi-Fi access while others do not? So we're talking a little bit more here about that could apply to both laptops and iOS devices, but let's concentrate really on the iOS. On iOS for the FileMaker Go client that we're showing earlier, we do have an option so that when you're on the network, you have an option that will allow FileMaker Go to reconnect automatically if it loses connection and you go back into FileMaker Go. So there is some resilience built into the platform that allows to kind of not lose the workflow that you've done so far. However, a prolonged disconnect from the network will absolutely stop the progress, but there is some resilience built into the platform that can accommodate for losses in the network. Okay, next question is about WebDirect. Can scripts be run from WebDirect? Absolutely, and that's one of the great things about FileMaker WebDirect is so similar to FileMaker Pro and its capabilities. There's a lot of things that we can do in FileMaker WebDirect that were kind of impossible a few years ago. So one of the things that is running scripts, FileMaker WebDirect can also run scripts triggered by script triggers, so events that happen on a layout. FileMaker WebDirect can even import and export records. So a lot of really cool things, even drag and drop is supported into container fields. I can take a file and drag it on top of my web browser into container field and that will be stored directly into my server. So yes. Okay, the next question. Can you tell me the differences between FileMaker Server 13 and the previous FileMaker Server 12 or 11? That can take an entire webinar all by itself, but I'd like to address a couple of things that are top of my list. The first thing and we kind of mentioned it really briefly today was that FileMaker Server 13 is a 64-bit architecture. It's built on a 64-bit architecture, which is a complete departure from FileMaker 12 and 11. We do not support a 32-bit operating system anymore. What 64-bit addressing allows us to do is to be able to address a lot more RAM, a lot more memory that's available on the computer. This also means that we have more access here when it comes to caching, so the performance usually is a lot better. So all the components internally in FileMaker Server 13 are 64-bit, so they work a lot, they work much better and much more reliable. The other great thing for me in FileMaker Server 13 and we've talked about it quite a bit today is obviously FileMaker WebDirect. It's completely brand new, really breakthrough web technology that allows it to access those solutions from a web browser. So that's one of the other things and there's a third option for me that really kind of hits home with me and it's security. FileMaker Server 13 has enhanced the security not just with the SSL encryption but also when it comes to encrypting database files. FileMaker 13 now allows you to do what we call encryption at rest. Your entire database can be completely encrypted using very strong industry standard encryption methodologies and FileMaker Server is able to handle that and support it on hosted database files. So those three are kind of the three things that hit really home for me in this version of FileMaker Server but again we can go an entire hour talking about the differences. All right the next question is a static IP required for FileMaker Server? A static IP is not required but it is highly recommended and I would say that again it is highly recommended to have a static IP for FileMaker Server. There's a lot of reasons behind it but one of them it's just going to make your users a lot easier to find and look to locate your server on a daily basis. So although it is not required it is very highly recommended. Okay and do you have any advice or can you give me some advice about migrating databases hosted on FileMaker Server 12 to FileMaker Server 13? Sure so in FileMaker 12 when we moved from 11 to 12 we actually changed the underlying format of our files or the structure of the files. In FileMaker Server 13 we're continuing to use that same format that we introduced in FileMaker 12. So taking a file from FileMaker Server 12 to FileMaker Server 13 requires no changes in the file itself. It really it's all going to be a matter of uninstalling FileMaker Server 12, installing FileMaker Server 13 and uploading the file. So as far as the file goes your database files there's really no change necessary in your solution itself. Perfect all right that's all the time we have for today. On behalf of Ronnie Rios and FileMaker it's been our absolute pleasure chatting with you and we hope to see you on another webinar soon. Thanks.