Technical Brief

FileMaker Go 1.2.1 Technical Brief

The Timestamp iOS control, as seen below, does not support inserting seconds (or fractional seconds). However,

you can type seconds into any Time or Timestamp ﬁeld before or after using an iOS control.

There is no direct means of inserting the Current Date, Time, or Timestamp via keyboard shortcuts or menus. If you

wish to provide such functionality, you will need to write scripts for those behaviors and optionally associate those

scripts with buttons placed on your layouts. Additionally, script triggers such as the OnObjectEnter script trigger

could be used to enter the desired data as a starting point for data entry.

Field Objects

Field controls including repetitions, check boxes, radio buttons, and iOS-style value pickers are all supported.

Fields with applied data formatting and conditional formatting display the same in FileMaker Go as in FileMaker Pro.

To remove or clear values from radio buttons in FileMaker Go, you will need to provide a button and/or scripted

method.

Layout Objects

Tab Controls, Buttons, Portals, and Web Viewer objects are all supported. Layouts on the iPad/iPhone will look

nearly identical to how they appear in FileMaker Pro. Most object formatting options such as pen color, ﬁll

color, line width, and embossing/engraving/shadows are supported, as are geometric objects including lines,

rectangles, rounded rectangles, and circles. Fill patterns are the exception – FileMaker Go ignores them.

Tooltips are not supported and do not appear in FileMaker Go. In a touch interface there is no hover or rollover

state to invoke tooltips.

Container Fields

ContainereldssupportallimageformatssupportedbyiOS:GIF,PNG,JPG,andTIFF.Otherleformatsincluding

PDF, Word, and Excel can also be stored and viewed. Sound and video formats are supported and will execute

when you tap on them. Tapping an empty Container ﬁeld lets users insert a photo taken from the camera or stored

inthedevice’simagelibrary,orcaptureasignature.IftheContainereldhasdata,usersmayalsochoosetoOpen

orEmailthecontentsusingthedevice’slocalemailclient.Youcancut,copy,paste,anddeletebyrsttapping

on a container ﬁeld, which will expose the iOS keyboard, and then tapping again to access the contextual menu

containing these menu items. If you have previously copied an image to the iOS clipboard, you are able to paste

it into a container ﬁeld from this menu. You can also paste between containers or from a container ﬁeld to Mail, for

example.