Naming Convention for FileMaker fields – Extensitech | Extensitech

This post is the first in a series based on our effort to revamp xBase. We are currently using xBase version 4 (Click to download. Full access login is developer:Extensitech), which was designed to leverage the capabilities of FileMaker version 10. It has served us well, and continues to do so, but it is getting a bit old. We’d like our next version to take into account all the things that have made version 4 such a pleasure to work with, but we’re taking a “ground up” approach, reconsidering everything we’ve done to ensure that we’re fully leveraging new capabilities of FileMaker, and all that we’ve learned as developers during the years since we developed version 4.

You will note, by the way, that we’re changing our version numbering system. Version 4 is, as you might expect, the fourth iteration of the xBase file. That’s probably the simplest naming we could do. However, it becomes challenging to explain to clients that version 4 was made for FileMaker 10, version 3 was made for FileMaker 9, version 2 for FileMaker 8 and version 1 for FileMaker 7. Instead, from now on, we’re going to name our xBase versions after the FileMaker version for which they are designed.

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