Comments on: Migrating a Filemaker database to Django http://reliablybroken.com/b/2009/11/migrating-a-filemaker-database-to-django/ It's a blog: let's do funch! Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:44:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: david http://reliablybroken.com/b/2009/11/migrating-a-filemaker-database-to-django/comment-page-1/#comment-515 david Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:01:40 +0000 http://reliablybroken.com/b/?p=320#comment-515 <p>Preston, only one database left. Fortunately they have each been simple flat databases so I haven't considered preserving relationships when migrating data. I have a hazy memory that I chose XML for exchanging data because Filemaker didn't escape quotation marks and commas and things when exporting CSV.</p> <p>appscript is goooood.</p> Preston, only one database left. Fortunately they have each been simple flat databases so I haven’t considered preserving relationships when migrating data. I have a hazy memory that I chose XML for exchanging data because Filemaker didn’t escape quotation marks and commas and things when exporting CSV.

appscript is goooood.

]]> By: Preston Holmes http://reliablybroken.com/b/2009/11/migrating-a-filemaker-database-to-django/comment-page-1/#comment-514 Preston Holmes Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:48 +0000 http://reliablybroken.com/b/?p=320#comment-514 <p>David,</p> <p>How interesting - I'm also just embarking on converting some legacy FMP stuff to django - how far along are you. I'm curious to see how I'll replace relations based on complex calculated keys.</p> <p>As far as data migration, I figured I'd go with CSV for most of it, and if I need to get fancy, I'd use appscript and let it handle the conversion of field types to python types.</p> <p>-Preston</p> David,

How interesting – I’m also just embarking on converting some legacy FMP stuff to django – how far along are you. I’m curious to see how I’ll replace relations based on complex calculated keys.

As far as data migration, I figured I’d go with CSV for most of it, and if I need to get fancy, I’d use appscript and let it handle the conversion of field types to python types.

-Preston

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