Filemaker Pro 8 Advanced

FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced, FR, Win32/Mac New! FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced has all the features of FileMaker Pro 8 plus advanced development and customization tools so you can efficiently build more powerful, more customized databases!

With the ability to customize menus and add Tooltips, as well as robust troubleshooting and database analysis tools, FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced provides powerful tools to:

Design and develop customized, advanced databases quickly
Because FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced has all the features of FileMaker Pro 8 plus advanced development and customization tools, you can efficiently design and develop more customized databases.

New! Custom menus
- Customize your database by modifying FileMaker menus to execute scripts from menu items.
- Rename, add or delete menu items, customize keyboard shortcuts and even add or delete entire menus.
- Customized menu behavior will also affect toolbar icons, context menus, window options, keyboard shortcuts, and the Mode menus.

New! Custom Tooltips
- Make your layouts more informative and intuitive by adding text-based or calculated Tooltips to fields or layout objects.
- 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.
- Mouse-over an item to which you’ve added a Tooltip to display helpful tips for using your solution or even calculation results.

Runtime Maker
- Create standalone runtime applications for non-networked coworkers.
- Distribute off-the-shelf, royalty-free FileMaker runtime solutions.

Kiosk Maker
- Display your database in full-screen “presentation” mode while hiding the application menus.
- Use this feature for self-serve solutions like event registrations and mailing list sign ups.

Custom functions
- Build powerful, recursive custom functions that can be reused across tables.

External function plug-in API
- Build more robust calculations and extend databases with the External Function Plug-ins.

Debug and troubleshoot solutions more efficiently
FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced includes essential debugging and reporting tools that help you build powerful solutions more efficiently.

New! Data Viewer
- Monitor fields, variables, and expressions to gain more insight when debugging your scripts or troubleshooting your database.
- Test calculation formulas without modifying your database schema.

New! Disable script steps
- Disable script steps to test portions of a script. When you execute a script, disabled script steps are skipped.

Enhanced! Script debugger
- Pinpoint problem areas more easily by reviewing scripts step-by-step as they’re executing.
- Trace script history to quickly see details of calling scripts.

Maintain and modify database solutions with ease
Once you’ve designed and deployed your database, you need an easy way to update it and keep it running at peak performance. FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced delivers.

New! Reuse fields, tables, and more
- Easily reuse fields, tables, scripts, and script steps by copying and pasting within or across tables.
- Build or modify databases faster by importing multiple tables at once.
- Reuse fields and tables without importing records.

Enhanced! Database Design Report
- Get more comprehensive information on database schema and options, like fields, tables, scripts, portals, and new features like the Tab Panel Control, Custom Menus, Tooltips, and more.
- The enhanced reports now help you troubleshoot missing references, broken relationships, calculations, and more.

File maintenance tools
- Use the file maintenance tools to maximize performance and to compact and recover unused space.

And more powerful developer features also available in FileMaker Pro 8.

Script variables
- Streamline database schema by storing global and local variables in scripts, eliminating the need to create unnecessary fields in your database.

Return value from script
- Create more flexible, reusable scripts using this new script step saving development and maintenance time.
- Now a script can perform a function and return the result to the calling script.

Relationships Graph
- Duplicate tables and relationships in the Relationships Graph.
- Document your database design by adding notes in the Relationships Graph.

Go to related record script step
- Easily show related records for an entire found set with this enhanced script step.

Set field script step
- Supports dynamic selection of field repetition through the use of a calculation.

Value Lists
- Display more meaningful information in Value Lists while hiding cryptic associated values.
- For example, you can display a product description in a Value List, but store the associated part number in the database.