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What’s Brushfire?

FileMaker ProScripting Issues

How Brushfire Solves These Problems

Features

Key Features

What’s Brushfire?

Brushfire analyzes and documents your FileMaker Pro® scripts. See some amazing results:

See Brushfire Project Report

See Brushfire Detail Report

FileMaker Pro Scripting Issues

• Script Dependencies Often scripts are duplicated and modified rather than changed, leading to fragmented and difficult-to-maintain code.
  
  
• Delete Script? One is never sure if a script can be deleted.
  
  
• Script "Calling Tree" A list of scripts called by a script, is not available in Filemaker Pro.
  
  It is nearly impossible to find all scripts that call a particular script.
  
  
• Script Deadwood Scripts that are not used , i.e., Not called by another script or button.
  
  
• Script Broken Links Broken links are not visible unless printed, or examined one-by-one.
  
  
• Script Cross Reference None
  
  
• Script Sorting Scripts cannot be sorted by name or other selection.

How Brushfire Solves Problems

Brushfire does fast, efficient script cross referencing and analysis, as follows:

• Script "Calling Tree" The list of scripts called by a script is displayed and optionally printed by Brushfire.
  
  
• Script Deadwood Scripts that are not used by another script are displayed and optionally printed by Brushfire.
  
  
• Script Broken Links Links in scripts are now visible and noted in the Brushfire report.
  
  
• Script Cross Reference Automatically generated, displayed and/or printed by Brushfire.
  
  
• Script Sorting Brushfire sorts scripts by Script Name or other selection.

Features

Developed in the C++ programming language, Brushfire analyzes complex multiple file solutions, usually in less than a minute, making Brushfire the fastest analysis tool developed for FileMaker Pro. Brushfire currently runs on the Mac OS. Later this year a version will run on Windows.

Reports can be displayed in selectable windows. They may be viewed and/or printed. The reports are made by, using data extracted from the FileMaker Pro database(s) being analyzed.

Key Features

The Brushfire Engine (using proprietary algorithms) provides both a top level and detailed analysis of FileMaker scripts.

Brushfire has the following features:

• Extremely Fast Analysis
  
  
• Ideal Script Cross Reference Listings
  
  
• Complete Script & Subscript Listings
  
  
• HyperLinks For Easy Navigation Between Script Listings
  
  
• Complete Script Error Reports
  
  
• Script Reports That Can Be Uploaded To Any Server
  
  
• Uploaded Reports Can be Viewed/Used By Designated Personnel

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