Installation and New Features Guide

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1 Merge variables on layouts – Create a merge variable that displays
values from local or global variables. You can use merge variables for
some tasks in place of global fields or unstored calculation fields.
1 TLS support for sending mail via SMTP – When you send email via
SMTP, you can choose TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption to
allow both secure and nonsecure connections over the same port.
Script steps, script triggers, and functions
1 Script selection and editing improvements:
1 The Specify Script dialog box has buttons that allow you to add,
edit, duplicate, and delete scripts.
1 In Windows, you can move the scripting windows outside the
FileMaker
Pro application window. Menus inside these scripting
windows allow you to manage and edit your scripts.
1 Origination information – In Help, each script step, script trigger, and
function description includes the version of FileMaker
Pro in which it
was created.
1 Open Manage Layouts script step – Displays the Manage Layouts
dialog box.
1 Perform Quick Find script step – Finds records that match one or more
search words based on text that you specify or on text returned by a
calculation function.
1 Save Records As Snapshot Link script step – Saves a set of found
records to a FileMaker
Pro Snapshot Link (FPSL) file.
1 OnLayoutExit script trigger – Triggers a script to run before a layout
is exited.
1 OnObjectValidate script trigger – Triggers a script to run before an
active object has been validated and saved.
1 OnViewChange script trigger – Triggers a script to run when the view
(Form, List, Table) has changed.
1 Get(AccountPrivilegeSetName) function – Returns the name of the
privilege set that is being used by the account used to open the database.