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Using OLE on a network

You can share FileMaker Pro files with OLE objects over a network, much like you share other FileMaker Pro files.

On a computer running Windows, if you're a client of a FileMaker Pro file that contains an OLE object, you can edit the object if you have the application that created it or an application that can convert it.

When several users are working with the file, only one user at a time can update an embedded OLE object. FileMaker Pro doesn't prevent two users from externally accessing a link source (from a link in another record or by opening the source file directly).

All FileMaker Pro record locking and access privileges apply to OLE objects. If you have access rights to a linked file on the network, FileMaker Pro searches the network to find the source file when the link is activated.

 

With this configuration	Users can do this
A computer running Windows is the host, and a computer running the Mac OS is the client	Mac OS users can view embedded and linked OLE objects as pictures but can't edit them. Mac OS users can cut and paste OLE objects. When FileMaker Pro is the source and destination of the pasting, OLE objects remain as OLE objects and can later be activated and edited on a computer running Windows.
A computer running the Mac OS is the host, and a computer running Windows is the client	Windows users can embed, link, and edit objects. Mac OS users can view objects as pictures but can't edit them.
Host and client are computers running the Mac OS	All users can view embedded OLE objects and linked OLE objects as pictures but can't edit them.
Host and client are computers running Windows	All users can embed, link, and edit objects.