These tools require some setup, but their goal is to make deployments as simple as pushing a button. These tools are more than just something to help you run DMT as they also help with creating clones on your development server and with moving those clones to the production server. The next class of tools I would like to cover includes 360Deploy by 360Works, Otto by Geist Interactive, and base72 by 27solutions. If you frequently migrate the same files, this might be a good solution for you as it does not require you to install or buy any extra software like FileMaker Pro or one of the tools I talk about next.
If you are comfortable with command-line tools, or if you don’t want to run FileMaker Pro to convert the files, you might want to write a bash or batch script to run DMT. They are by far the easiest way to get up and running with DMT and are a great starting point for anyone who wants to experiment with DMT without having to use the command line. Each tool is a FileMaker file that provides a very easy GUI to migrate your database files. The first class of tools I want to talk about are the FM Data Migration Assistant by Productive Computing, FMDataMigration by Lesterius, FM Data Migration Companion by DB Services, and the FileMaker Data Migration Tool Demo that was created by Soliant’s own Wim Decorte. This is not an in-depth review of these tools but rather a quick overview of the current landscape. Over the last two years, there have been some wonderful tools to help developers use the DMT. In this post, I want to provide a brief overview of some of the tools that make DMT easier to use, and I also want to introduce a new command-line tool we developed. More recently, Mislav Kos posted about how running concurrent copies of DMT can speed up the migration of a multi-file solution. My colleague Matt Hintz wrote a nice overview of how to use it and explained how it made deploying FileMaker solutions a lot easier than with previous methods. When FileMaker 17 came out, Claris also released a new tool called the FileMaker Data Migration Tool (DMT).
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