Development Guide

Chapter 2 | Differences between FileMaker Go and FileMaker Pro 10
Date and time pickers
Differences in behavior between FileMaker Go and the desktop include:
1 Seconds or fractions of seconds aren’t available on the time/timestamp picker in FileMaker Go.
You can type seconds into the field. Scripted or calculated times will display seconds on the device.
1 On the iPad, the keyboard remains active while the date picker is active.
1 Data in FileMaker Go date fields might change if the device calendar changes.
Custom menus (FileMaker Pro Advanced)
FileMaker Go doesn’t support:
1 removal of menu items that were removed on the desktop. The menu items are still displayed
in FileMaker
Go, but they are disabled.
1 additional menu items that do not map to existing FileMaker Go menu items.
1 override of the Quick Find menu item by custom menus, though you can override the quick find
behavior.
1 override of Save Record and Exit Record by custom menus.
1 display of an ampersand (&) in custom menu titles.
Printing
1 The print options that you set for a file in FileMaker Pro have no effect on the print options for
the same file in FileMaker
Go, and vice versa.
1 If you don’t specify page margins for a layout in FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go uses the printer’s
default margin, which might vary with different printers or different print drivers. You should
specify page margins if you’re printing a layout where exact spacing is important, like labels or
a preprinted form.
Saving records as a PDF file
When you save records as a PDF file, FileMaker Go uses the name of the window for the PDF
filename.
Exporting
By default, all manual export operations use UTF-8, except .xlsx, which uses UTF-16. You must
use the Export Records script step to select fields whose values you want to summarize or fields
that are not on the current layout, and you must use the Export Records script step to configure
the output file character set.
Container fields
FileMaker Go doesn’t support:
1 the Inspector Data Formatting options Images or Interactive content. (Content in container
fields is displayed by the iOS like other iOS audio, video, and PDF files.)
1 setting up container fields to store data externally.
Display state of objects
FileMaker Go doesn’t display the Hover state for objects.