Installation and New Features Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Before you begin
- About this guide
- Customer support and product information
- Update notification
- About the license key
- Hardware and software requirements
- Networking requirements
- Web publishing requirements
- Requirements for other features in Windows
- Requirements for other features in the Mac OS
- Features not supported in Windows
- Features not supported in the Mac OS
- Opening files from previous versions
- Upgrading FileMaker Pro from a previous version
- Updating your User Dictionary
- Installing under a volume license
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMaker Pro in Windows
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMaker Pro in the Mac OS
- Chapter 4 Activating FileMaker Pro
- Chapter 5 New features
10 | Before you begin
Requirements for other features in Windows
Some of the features of FileMaker Pro for Windows require
additional software.
Requirements for other features in the Mac OS
Some of the features of FileMaker Pro for the Mac OS require
additional
software.
Feature Software requirement
Send Mail script step
using an email
application
Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft
Outlook Express and Eudora
Note This requirement does not apply to SMTP mail.
Phone dialing Phone dialer or other Telephony API (TAPI) compliant
software
ODBC features Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) version
2.8 SP1 (Windows XP) or Windows DAC 6.0 (Windows
Vista). To update MDAC software, visit
www.microsoft.com.
Accessing external data sources using FileMaker Pro as a
client application requires third-party drivers for the data
source you are using.
For more information on using ODBC, visit
www.filemaker.com/support/technologies.
Insert QuickTime movie
and image files
QuickTime 7.5 software (available at www.apple.com)
Feature Software requirement
Send Mail script step
using an email
application
Microsoft Entourage or the Mac OS Mail email client
software
Note This requirement does not apply to SMTP mail.
ODBC features Accessing external data sources using FileMaker Pro as a
client application requires third-party drivers for the data
source you are using.
For more information on using ODBC, visit
www.filemaker.com/support/technologies.