Here’s a silent movie showing how to set up a FileMaker Server script to synchronise borrowers and photos within Athenaeum Pro and Resource. Click the thumbnail to get started.

Athenaeum is a FileMaker based family of products. FileMaker Inc. have published a compatibility chart for all versions of FileMaker Pro back to version 1, which appeared in 1985.* Support article 4701 We are posting this link here as a reference, for your information. the list does not include FileMaker Pro’s predecessor, the DOS program called Nutshell!

Standard Schedules Kamar installations using Athenaeum should instantiate at least the following two schedules on the Kamar server: These scripts should run daily after the “Kamar - Daily” script completes (allows 20 or 30 minutes). Server Script - Athenaeum can be found in the Kamar “Globals_” file (it is easiest to duplicate the Kamar Server daily script and […]

Athenaeum Pro 8.0 and 8.5 are compatible with Snow Leopard when running with FileMaker Pro 9, FileMaker Pro Advanced 9, FileMaker Pro 10, FileMaker Pro Advanced 10. At this stage, FileMaker Server 9 and 10 are not compatible with OS X 10.6 (will not launch). FileMaker Inc. expect to release a full FileMaker Server 10 installer […]

A number of schools using Athenaeum Pro with Kamar have reported that new students are not appearing in the borrower list and leaving students are not having their status updated. Kamar 903 modifies the evening Server “Daily” script and no longer synchronises with Athenaeum Pro. This function was broken out into a new schedule. Also, schools that […]

Use the FileMaker Server Admin Tool to stop and remove files to your FileMaker Server. If you want to replace files on a FileMaker Server and there are already files with the same name as the ones you want to upload, then FileMaker Server will reject your new files. This short video shows you how. You can start, […]

This week, FileMaker Inc. released FileMaker Pro 10. Athenaeum Pro is compatible with version 10 and you can mix and match version 10 with version 9 on the same network. In the first half of 2009, we will introduce some updates to Athenaeum Pro exploiting features of FileMaker Pro 10, if FileMaker Pro 10 is in use. FileMaker […]

Use the FileMaker Server Admin Tool to upload your Athenaeum Pro files to your FileMaker Server. This short, silent movie shows the Athenaeum files being uploaded to a FileMaker Server that is already loaded with Kamar and its default folders. We recommend that you upload the files into a folder called Athenaeum onto your server. If you […]

Athenaeum Pro 8 is based on FileMaker Pro 9 technology. As at the time of this post, FileMaker Pro 9 has been available for about 16 months and is quite well established. If you are networking Athenaeum Pro 8, you will need FileMaker Pro 9 on the client computers (that is, the ones not using web […]

If you are using the Mac version of Athenaeum and your Mac is running OS X 10.5, then you must apply the recently released 10.5.3 updater. It fixes a potentially serious OS X problem where the wrong window sometimes gets selected.