Filemaker Pro Advanced 8

FileMaker Pro Advanced 8, Educational VLA, Win&Mac Education Volume License Agreement (EVLA)\n\nBenefits\n- Purchases can start with a low 10-seat minimum.\n- Mix and match platforms, products (including FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Pro Advanced, FileMaker Server, FileMaker Server Advanced, and FileMaker Mobile) and upgrades for larger tier discounts.\n- No minimums for adding seats to an existing VLA.\n- No signed contracts required.\n- One installation code per product.\n\nEligibility\nAccredited public or private universities, colleges, and community colleges that grant degrees requiring at least two years of full-time matriculation. Accredited public and private K-12 institutions, including charter and virtual schools\n\nWho should purchase this type of license?\nEducational institutions that need at least 10 licenses of FileMaker software. This option provides an easy, flexible way to save time and money on volume licensing.\n\nDiscounts\nFileMaker offers eligible Education institutions a 50% savings off regular commercial prices. EVLA volume licensing prices begin with a 16% discount off single Education user packages and even greater discounts are available for larger EVLA volume orders.\n\nProduct mix and match\nMix and match FileMaker products and platforms, as well as new and upgrade seats, to reach the minimum order requirement for each tier. Only FileMaker Pro has tiered discounts. All other products have a single EVLA price.\n\nProduct Fulfillment\nOne media set CD, which includes the software product and electronic documentation as a PDF file, is included with each product licensing order. Additional media sets can be requested at time of purchase at no additional charge.\n\nNew! 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!\n\nWith 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:\n\nDesign and develop customized, advanced databases quickly\nBecause 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.\n\nNew! Custom menus\n- Customize your database by modifying FileMaker menus to execute scripts from menu items.\n- Rename, add or delete menu items, customize keyboard shortcuts and even add or delete entire menus.\n- Customized menu behavior will also affect toolbar icons, context menus, window options, keyboard shortcuts, and the Mode menus.\n\nNew! Custom Tooltips\n- Make your layouts more informative and intuitive by adding text-based or calculated Tooltips to fields or layout objects.\n- 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.\n- Mouse-over an item to which you’ve added a Tooltip to display helpful tips for using your solution or even calculation results.\n\nRuntime Maker\n- Create standalone runtime applications for non-networked coworkers.\n- Distribute off-the-shelf, royalty-free FileMaker runtime solutions.\n\nKiosk Maker\n- Display your database in full-screen “presentation” mode while hiding the application menus.\n- Use this feature for self-serve solutions like event registrations and mailing list sign ups.\n\nCustom functions\n- Build powerful, recursive custom functions that can be reused across tables.\n\nExternal function plug-in API\n- Build more robust calculations and extend databases with the External Function Plug-ins.\n\nDebug and troubleshoot solutions more efficiently\nFileMaker Pro 8 Advanced includes essential debugging and reporting tools that help you build powerful solutions more efficiently.\n\nNew! Data Viewer\n- Monitor fields, variables, and expressions to gain more insight when debugging your scripts or troubleshooting your database.\n- Test calculation formulas without modifying your database schema.\n\nNew! Disable script steps\n- Disable script steps to test portions of a script. When you execute a script, disabled script steps are skipped.\n\nEnhanced! Script debugger\n- Pinpoint problem areas more easily by reviewing scripts step-by-step as they’re executing.\n- Trace script history to quickly see details of calling scripts.\n\nMaintain and modify database solutions with ease\nOnce 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.\n\nNew! Reuse fields, tables, and more\n- Easily reuse fields, tables, scripts, and script steps by copying and pasting within or across tables.\n- Build or modify databases faster by importing multiple tables at once.\n- Reuse fields and tables without importing records.\n\nEnhanced! Database Design Report\n- 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.\n- The enhanced reports now help you troubleshoot missing references, broken relationships, calculations, and more.\n\nFile maintenance tools\n- Use the file maintenance tools to maximize performance and to compact and recover unused space.\n\nAnd more powerful developer features also available in FileMaker Pro 8.\n\nScript variables\n- Streamline database schema by storing global and local variables in scripts, eliminating the need to create unnecessary fields in your database.\n\nReturn value from script\n- Create more flexible, reusable scripts using this new script step saving development and maintenance time.\n- Now a script can perform a function and return the result to the calling script.\n\nRelationships Graph\n- Duplicate tables and relationships in the Relationships Graph.\n- Document your database design by adding notes in the Relationships Graph.\n\nGo to related record script step\n- Easily show related records for an entire found set with this enhanced script step.\n\nSet field script step\n- Supports dynamic selection of field repetition through the use of a calculation.\n\nValue Lists\n- Display more meaningful information in Value Lists while hiding cryptic associated values.\n- For example, you can display a product description in a Value List, but store the associated part number in the database.