Presumably, the business has a working solution. The types of environments that would use this sort of solution are probably not the types that have in-house database administrators and developers, so you're talking about taking on a considerable external cost. It's all well and good that you're Linuxy enough to maintain MariaDB and Apache, but can you refactor the entire interface and feature set that is presently in use? Most importantly of all, can you do it for zero additional cost? Via FMEas圜anvas | An Open Source Drawing Solution for the FileMaker Platform.The primary impediment to switching database backends will be development.

Works with FileMaker Pro (Mac), and FileMaker Go.

Based on popular Web technologies, including HTML5, jQuery, CSS.ĭesigned specifically for the FileMaker 13 platform.

Completely unlocked, so you can customize it if you’d like.

No need to make changes to the relationship graph.

No need to make changes to existing tables.

One table, one layout, and a few scripts.

Use existing drawings as backgrounds, and draw on top of them.

Save your work to FileMaker container fields (as png or jpg files).

Uses familiar drawing tools, including pencil, eraser, line, text, and more.

Create and modify drawings directly from within FileMaker.

With it, you can create and modify drawings directly from within a FileMaker database using familiar drawing tools, and then save your work to the database. And it is open source (Free) licensed:Įas圜anvas is an open source drawing solution for the FileMaker platform.

It is easily integrated into your solution, and adds a new layer of functionality for those wanting to draw freehand, add objects and text, and be able to save and export the resulting image. This one is a basic drawing tool inside a web viewer in FileMaker, and the tools to draw and type.

Yet another web based tool for FileMaker from Tim Dietrich (when does he sleep?).

Filemaker pro alternative open source