Talk to Your Developer About Storage

If you need to store documents, files, signatures, images or audio files in your Filemaker solution, spend some time talking to your developer about how those files will be stored. Broadly, you have two choices — store the files in container fields within your solution, or store a reference to the file, telling the container where the file lives.

Storing the file within the container might seem safer and more efficient — keeping all the data in one place. It’s almost always a bad idea. Your solution will swell up to many times its original size, making it cumbersome and slow. If your file becomes corrupt, all of those important files may be lost. (This is real life.)

Make sure your developer is well-versed in the advantages of remote containers, and that you are making intentional decisions about where your important files will live.

To learn more, follow the link to a great article about this from Soliant. http://ow.ly/AuoR302JKLJ http://ow.ly/i/lEbhw