Filemaker Pro 8.5 Advanced Maintenance

FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced 1 yr Maintenance Expired FileMaker Maintenance Program

The FileMaker Maintenance Program is the most cost-effective maintenance program for FileMaker products. It assures you and your company have the most current version of FileMaker available during the period of your Maintenance agreement. Because the FileMaker Maintenance Program provides upgrades on FileMaker products at a low, pre-set annual or multi-year price, you and your company will:

- Stay current on FileMaker technology
- Ensure budget predictability
- Make the most of your initial FileMaker investment

Features and benefits

Stay current on FileMaker technology
- Get instant access to the latest FileMaker upgrades released during the period of your FileMaker Maintenance agreement.
- Ensure maximum productivity by having all FileMaker users in your organization possess the most up-to-date features and functions available.
- Keep your entire organization on the same version for easier maintenance and support across all desktops.

Ensure budget predictability

- Plan ahead for software upgrades by locking in today's prices on tomorrow's technology.
- Avoid a lengthy internal procurement and approvals process by having a single annual renewal date for which to plan.
- Regardless of how many upgrades are released during the period of your FileMaker Maintenance agreement, you will not have any additional costs.

Make the most of your initial FileMaker investment

- Leverage your initial investment in FileMaker by staying current on maintenance for the coming year at just 20% of your initial license cost. (Pricing may vary depending on options purchased at the time of initial licenses.)


FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced includes all the features of FileMaker Pro 8.5 plus a suite of advanced development and customization tools to help you design and develop more powerful, more customized database solutions – faster and easier than ever before!

Design and develop databases faster and easier

Customize your database even more by adding your own menus and menu items using the Custom Menu feature of FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced. Plus, you can add Tooltips to layout objects to make your layouts more intuitive. Even create standalone, runtime applications that include the new FileMaker Web Viewer.

Debug and troubleshoot more efficiently

FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced includes essential debugging and reporting tools that help you build stable, reliable solutions more efficiently. It’s easier than ever to pinpoint problem areas by reviewing scripts step-by-step in the Script Debugger. You can monitor fields, variables, expressions, and even test calculation formulas with the Data Viewer, as well as temporarily disable script steps to test portions of your scripts.

Modify and maintain with ease

Once you’ve designed and deployed your database, the FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced database reporting and optimization features will help you update solutions more easily and keep them running at peak performance. Update databases faster by importing multiple tables or by using copy/paste to move fields, tables, scripts, and script steps. Get comprehensive information on database schema and options, like fields, web viewers, layouts, Custom Menus, and more with the Database Design Report. Plus, the FileMaker Maintenance Tools will ensure you’re getting maximum performance from your solutions.

Bring the web into your databases

Runtime Maker and Kiosk Maker have been enchanced so that you can include the FileMaker Web Viewer or Object Functions and Scripts. Also, now you can add a Tooltip that shows the address of the web page displayed in the FileMaker Web Viewer

Create scripts with ease
The Script Debugger and Data Viewer have been updated to help you analyze and monitor the new functions and scripts that give you more control over your solutions. The Data Viewer is particularly useful when pulling data from a web page because it allows you to see the content of the web page before you execute a script

Document the new features
The Database Design Report now documents information on the FileMaker Web Viewer as well as the new functions and scripts. The report includes the Web address of any FileMaker Web Viewer and the names of any layout objects that you have assigned a name. Portals, buttons, tabs – you name it!

Build on the power of FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced
FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced also includes everything in FileMaker Pro 8.5 including Custom Menus, Custom Tooltips, and more!

Maximum Mac performance
FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced runs up to 3 times faster on your Intel-based Mac than FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced on your Power-PC-based Mac. Designed to run natively on Intel-based Macs, PowerPC-based Macs, and Windows, FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced harnesses the speed of the new Intel-based Macs.


Here are 10 ways to turbocharge your solutions using FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced:

1. Customize menus by executing your scripts, renaming, adding, or deleting menu items or replacing entire menus with your custom choices for a completely customized solution. Your customized menu behavior will also affect toolbar icons, context menus, window options, keyboard shortcuts, and the Mode menus.
2. Make your layouts more informative and intuitive by adding names and text-based or calculated Tooltips to any field or layout object. Tooltips can include static text or calculated results to provide more insights into your data or to temporarily provide information that you don't want permanently displayed on your layout.
3. Build or modify databases faster by importing multiple tables at once or by using copy/paste to move fields, tables, scripts, and script steps in or across files.
4. Pinpoint problem areas as you step through scripts in a script debugger. You can even temporarily disable scripts to test portions of a script.
5. Keep an eye on current field values, variables, or expressions with the Data Viewer. This is particularly useful when debugging scripts or to test calculation formulas without modifying the database schema.
6. Create standalone runtime solutions that do not require the FileMaker Pro application.
7. Create a kiosk-based application where all menus are hidden — great for mailing list signs up or event registrations.
8. Build more robust calculations and extend database capabilities with new Custom Functions and the External Function Plug-in API.
9. Generate a report that provides comprehensive information on your database schema and options, like fields, tables, Custom Menus, Web Viewers, and more with the Database Design Report. It’s invaluable as a troubleshooting tool by locating missing fields, broken relationships, problem calculations, and more.
10. Use the file maintenance tools to maximize database performance and to compact and recover unused space for faster access.