Technical Brief

FileMaker Go 1.2.1 Technical Brief
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FileMaker Go properly displays rich text stored in your FileMaker database. However, the following formats are
not supported by iOS: highlight, strike through, condense, extend, small caps, superscript, and subscript. These
formats will not be displayed but remain stored and displayed in FileMaker Pro.
Bold, italic, underline, title case, upper case, lower case, word underline, and double underline (appears as
underline) are all displayed. Manipulation of rich text attributes, creating mixed paragraph styles within a single
block of text, entering tab stops, and setting line spacing are not supported. If a user enters a field with rich text
attributes and makes any change, FileMaker Go will replace all the unsupported styles with the default attributes
of the field. This means users will lose any style and paragraph elements they may have applied to the text in
FileMaker Pro.
Auto-completeisnotsupportedonFileMakerGo.Texteldswithoption“auto-completeusingexistingvalues”will
behave as though the setting were turned off. Likewise, when entering data, users cannot insert text from an index
in FileMaker Go.
AsianlanguagesaresupportedalthoughJapanesespecicfeaturessuchasSidewaysTextOrientation
and Furigana are not supported. IME input will also not work in fields setup with OnObjectKeystroke and
OnLayoutKeystroke script triggers.
Numbers
FileMakerGodoesnotdisplaya“?”characterfornumbereldscontainingmoredatathancanbedisplayedas
FileMaker Pro does. Instead, it uses the iOS truncation mechanism. The result will also display somewhat differently
depending on how alignment is set. If centered or right aligned, you will see the first character followed by an
ellipsis.Forexample,thevalue“8050”mayappearas“8…”.Ifleftaligned,therstseveralcharacterswillbe
displayedandmaynotincludeanellipsis.Usingthesameexamplefromabove,thevalue“8050”mightappear
as“805”whenleftaligned.Asaresult,considerationshouldbegiventothesebehaviorsandhowtheywillaffect
users when placing number fields on a layout.
Dates & Times
Dates and Times work just as they do in FileMaker Pro; however, they use iOS controls for data entry as shown below.