Can BF hooks access data from other files on the same server

Paul Jansen:
Rookie question. Can BF hooks access data from tables on the app file graph that are actually in another file?


Owen Reese:
Any table that’s in your schema can be accessed by BF. Filemaker treats external data sources nearly the same as internal, so accessing data across multiple .fmp12 files is as easy as adding it as an external data source and then creating a table occurence.


Owen Reese:
Hope that makes sense


Jason Wood:
Just make sure all files have the appropriate account & privileges.


Paul Jansen:
Thanks. I wanted to double check before investing too much time in this specific solution.


it could impact performance for the user as it has to open by reference all other files that are touched by the dependency.