Get remaining license count prior to running *clerk

[Walter Vaughan]

fp at casabellagallery.com wrote:

> Working on WEB & FP interface, expecting to run into problems
> with license count.

Only if you plan on writing it poorly. "Old School" (non-ajax) applications 
should only hit filePro for tenths of a second. You are in and out of filePro in 
the blink of an eye for most of what you might do.

If you're gonna feed those 5-15 minute to build reports via a web interface, 
then you'd be better off with a ETL movement into a SQL database that won't have 
seat issues. Beside most users will assume it's broke if you don't get them data 
in 5-15 seconds. Send the process to the background and email them the reports 
when it's done.

You can create a cgi-bin script to run filePro in a dozen lines of code, but I 
suggest you contract with Mark to use his OneGate Product.