SubscribeFilemaker Pro 9’s best, easy-to-use new features
Metaclarity’s core work is Filemaker Pro development and Web Development. When Filemaker Pro 9 came out we were really impressed by several new features.
If you’re a developer or a user and haven’t moved to Filemaker Pro 9 yet, we think these are compelling reasons to do so:
- Conditional formatting! This is cool. It means a field can go red or yellow or whatever when a user enters invalid data. Sounds little - it’s very, very useful!
- The installation of FileMaker Server and FileMaker Server Advanced used to be a serious headache. FileMaker have really simplified things and you should be able to get FileMaker Server up and running in about 20 minutes - though you might want to set an hour aside!!
- Don’t want FileMaker Server? If you use a FileMaker Pro client to share your databases, you’re now allowed up to nine peer-to-peer connections again (it dropped to four in previous versions).
- The Append to PDF command that allows you to bring together a wide range of layout data into a single PDF report.
- Layout objects can now be set to resize automatically (and correctly!!) on screen.
- Developers also have folders to store their scripts in - at last!
- And best of all, is FileMaker Pro 9’s ability to connect to and use external SQL data sources. We use mySQL a lot for web development. This is going to change radically the way we integrate our clients’ office solutions with their web sites. And it’s going to be good!
It’s well worth a look: Filemaker Pro 9