Installation and New Features Guide

24 | New features
Improved performance and usability
1 Enhanced container fields – You can now store container data outside
of the database file in managed storage. Storing container data
externally facilitates sharing multi-user databases, improves backups,
and maintains security through encryption of the external data.
Enhancements also let you render images faster with thumbnails; drag
and drop files; and work interactively with audio, video, and PDF files in
container fields.
1 Plug-in updating – Store plug-in files in solution files, then use scripts
and calculations to ensure users always have the correct version of
required plug-ins installed.
1 Define window styles – Control user interaction with your solution by
specifying that layouts opened by a script or button display as standard
document windows, floating document windows, or modal dialog
windows, and by choosing the controls that appear in the windows.
1 Enhanced tab control – Modify tab behavior so that the active tab is
retained when switching to Layout mode. You can set up conditional
formatting of individual tab panels and tab labels.
1 Record sorting – You can control whether record sorting is persistent or
temporary. Records added or edited after being sorted are by default
integrated into the sort order. Deselect Keep records in sorted order
to change this behavior.
1 New badges in Layout mode:
1 A badge in the lower-right corner on a layout indicates that
script triggers are associated with the layout.
1 A badge on a layout indicates that the object on which the
badge appears is a button.
1 Layout variable symbols – New layout variables display the status of a
file, elements in the file, or an action being performed. Also, variable
symbols for date, time, user name, page number, and record number
have changed.
1 Working with shared files – You can now run a script in a remote file
using a URL.
1 FileMaker Pro features by version – See Help for information about the
version in which FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced features
were introduced, starting from version 8.0.