I want to buy Calendar Complete for use by our small office, and two remote/out of office users. I understand that the entire calendar cannot be IWP'd--hence your Iphone version. However, if the Calendar is hosted on a server, AND the remote user has Filemaker, he or she will be able to see and use the Calendar in all its glory, right?

Right. However, you'll want to test this with our demo first (it set up for sharing as you describe) because your remote user can find things quite slow depending on their connection. You'll want to check out the Scheduling screens in particular as they can be unusably slow.

Hopefully this will be fast enough for you.

Hi Guido,

Just wanted to add in my experience which might be helpful to you.

We're running Calendar Complete and all users are on Macs (filemaker 9 / os10.4).

Originally we simply used one of the filemaker clients to 'share' the solution with the other users on our standard 100BaseT network.

We've now switched to a remote host (in our case Rapidhost's standard shared server) and I have to say, with a reasonable broadband connection (about 6-8meg in our case), you can hardly tell the difference.

There are 2 main upsides - remote users with filemaker can log in from anywhere - I even log in using a 3g modem when I have no other choice, and, although it's pretty slow, it is useable.

The other benefit is that we have remote hosting, with redundant backup (although the control panel has the option to make your own backup and download it at any time) - much safer with regard to fire / theft etc than a machine sat in our own offices.

Haven't even started with the IWP add-on yet, but will be using it soon so that we can make even quicker updates remotely, and from the odd blackberry or 2 maybe...

Hope that helps - Matt

Thanks, Matt--very helpful, especially about the speediness when hosted on a remote server (which is what we will do).

Be sure to check out the demo of our new FM10 calendar...

http://www.seedcode.com/cp-app/ste_cat/sccalpro10

This was written specifically to be faster when opened from a remote host.

Enjoy!

Bumping an old topic
I've been running Seedcode Complete 1 on FMSA 8 and 8.5 clients for a few years.
I just had a look at the upgrade cost and started thinking about hosted solutions again. Does anyone have any experience of Seedcode 2 hosted yet?

I've done a bit more research over the weekend.

I signed up for a trial account with Triple8 and uploaded the three files there.

The speed when using the companies, contacts and projects layouts is fine. The calendar is another story altogether and I found it unusable. Haven't tried Invoices yet

I got to thinking about the new data separation model and opened SeedCodeComplete from a local file and SeedCodeData and SeedCodeMedia from the remote files. The performance with this arrangement is good.

Obviously the convoluted start sequence is less than ideal, I guess this could be scripted?? I think I'd still want to maintain IWP access which would mean maintaining a copy of the SeedCodeComplete file on the remote server as well.

At present I have to maintain a separate server (because FileMaker and Retrospect don't play nicely together on the same server, maybe this has changed now we're 2 versions along with both solutions??). If I upgrade the server (Mac Mini) and FMSA every 3 years I'm looking at A$3K to maintain 4-5 employees. I can run it remote for a third of that.

Are there any pitfalls I haven't considered?

Thanks
Rob

Just one thing to add. If you want to work with Complete remotely (using FMP, not IWP) you need to ping your server: if you're close to your server and getting around 30ms pings I think you'll find it pretty peppy. More than that and you'll see some slowness. Of course what is acceptable to one person may not be to another.

But just because one person's connection to one server is slow (or fast) doesn't mean yours will be. Call your hosting provider (or the provider you're thinking of using), ask if they have a server in your part of the country, get an IP address for their server and ping it.

I pinged. West coast of the USA is getting sub 30, down to 16.5. I'm a looongg way away though, on the west coast of Australia, I'm seeing 180ms I haven't found an Australian FileMaker host (yet) will keep looking though
Thanks
Rob

That is kind of what I suspected. I'll ask some of my Australian friends here at DevCon who they use.