Unsupported Features in FileMaker Cloud

Unsupported Features in FileMaker Cloud

With all this awesomeness why wouldn’t I want to use FileMaker Cloud!? One might ask. There are really only a handful of specific scenarios that FileMaker Cloud may not be a good fit for you and your organization.

• External Authentication — FileMaker Cloud does not support external authentication via Active Directory/Open Directory. It does, however, support custom app authentication via FileMaker user accounts.
• Server Side Scripts — FileMaker Cloud does not allow server side scripts to run which means you’d need your own dedicated machine of FileMaker Server.
• Custom Web Publishing with PHP and XML — If you are, or are wanting to integrate with your website for instance, FileMaker Cloud does not support PHP or XML.
• More than a Week of Backups — As previously stated, FileMaker Cloud comes automatically equipped to have a backup run every 20 minutes and stores a week worth of backups. If you were to want more than one week, you’d need to manually preserve specific backups.
• Plugin Support — If you are using any plugins in your application, you’ll need to make sure they have a new version that supports Linux for the FileMaker Cloud.