So why are you doing “Document Storage” in FM Starting Point?

Document Management is becoming a critical technology for organized businesses. Business documents are being converted to PDFs for storage with desktop scanners, with most business trying to dump the files onto a file server “somewhere.” Businesses hope to be able to go back and find those documents if they need them. That’s going to be difficult because of the lack of organization. With FM Starting Point bundled with SuperContainer Hosted Lite, you have a FREE solution that will greatly help your ability to store your documents, attached right to the projects information in the database. Receipts or POs can be scanned and attached to your invoice records, etc. All totally FREE, and high speed. (as fast as your internet connection will allow). To Learn more, visit the SuperContainer FAQ.

What is FREE SuperContainer Hosted Lite?

SuperContainer Hosted Lite is a FREE limited version of SuperContainer that is hosted by 360Works and is built specifically into FM Starting Point.

The Lite Hosting Plan includes the following:

• No limit on number of users within your organization
• Maximum of 2 megabytes per file
• Limit of 10,000 total items
• 250 megabytes total storage
• Up to 1 gigabyte of download/upload traffic per month
• Thumbnails display at a maximum resolution of 300x300
• For use exclusively with the FM Starting Point solution

If you outgrow this, then you should consider upgrading to SuperContainer Hosted Pro (see next tab)

What is SuperContainer Hosted Pro?

SuperContainer Hosted Pro is a more powerful version of SuperContainer that is hosted by 360Works and is built specifically into FM Starting Point.

The “Hosted Pro” version includes the following:

• No limit on number of users within your organization
• Unlimited file size, total items, and thumbnail resolution
• 20 gigabytes total storage
• Up to 20 gigabytes of download/upload traffic traffic per month
• For use with with any solution, not just Starting Point
• Monthly charge of $49 US

If you outgrow this, then you should consider buying your own Workgroup or Enterprise license of SuperContainer to run on your own server (see next tabs)

What is SuperContainer Enterprise?

SuperContainer Enterprise is for an unlimited number of users and access via the web, running on your own in-house FileMaker Server.

The Enterprise version includes the following:

• No limit on number of users within your organization
• Accessible only with a Web Viewer in FileMaker Pro, or via a web browser for viewing and uploading files from the web
• Unlimited file size, total items, thumbnail resolution (limited only by space on your server)
• Unlimited total storage (limited only by space on your server)
• Unlimited download/upload traffic traffic per month (limited only by bandwidth to your server)
• Supports SSL encryption
• For use with with any solution, not just Starting Point
• One-time charge of $695 US

What is SuperContainer Workgroup?

SuperContainer Workgroup is for up to 10 FileMaker users, running on your own in-house FileMaker Server.

The Workgroup version includes the following:

• Up to 10 users within your organization
• Accessible only with a Web Viewer in FileMaker Pro (not via the a web browser)
• Unlimited file size, total items, thumbnail resolution (limited only by space on your server)
• Unlimited total storage (limited only by space on your server)
• Unlimited download/upload traffic traffic per month (limited only by bandwidth to your server)
• Supports SSL encryption
• For use with with any solution, not just Starting Point
• One-time charge of $195 US

Can I use FM Starting Point as a “Digital Asset Management” tool? Put another way... Can I use FM Starting Point to catalog, store and track all my pictures, movies, or audio files?

The answer is yes, although FM Starting Point was not specifically engineered for this type of business. Typically, a media or advertising company (or even a photographer) will use a Digital Asset Management tool to keep track of all their materials they need to run their business. This cannot be reasonably done with FileMaker’s built-in Container fields, due to slow performance. SuperContainer and FileMaker make a great combination for this task. The FREE SuperContainer Hosted Lite is limited to 250 megs of storage, for FREE. However, “Digital Asset Management” will most certainly suck up more storage than that. To realistically run DAM, you will need to customize FM Starting Point for this task, and use EITHER SuperContainer Hosted Pro... OR... Super Container Enterprise/WorkGroup.

Does FMSP for iPhone and iPad work with Super Container?

As of this moment, it doesn’t work (at least not very well). This is an evolving situation and the makers of SuperContainer (360Works) know this issue needs to be addressed. Don’t plan on doing document management on FileMaker Go just yet.