Installation and New Features Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Before you begin
- About FileMaker documentation
- Customer Support and Knowledge Base
- Update notification
- New version notification
- About the license key
- Requirements for features in Windows
- Requirements for features in OS X
- Features not supported in Windows
- Features not supported in OS X
- Converting the trial version to the full version of FileMaker Pro
- Upgrading FileMaker Pro from a previous version
- Opening files from previous versions
- Updating your User Dictionary
- Installing under a volume license
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMaker Pro in Windows
- Installation notes
- Installing FileMaker Pro
- Registering FileMaker Pro
- Installing FileMaker Pro from the command line
- About installing Bonjour
- About installing the Microsoft .NET Framework
- Where files are stored on your hard disk
- Uninstalling, modifying, or repairing FileMaker Pro
- Changing the FileMaker Pro cache size
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMaker Pro in OS X
- Chapter 4 New features
- New layout styles and theme saving
- Improved layout creation
- Improved layout design tools and controls
- Sharing and collaboration
- Integration with other applications and data sources
- Improved performance and usability
- Script steps, script triggers, and functions
- Changed and removed features
- FileMaker Pro 13 Advanced
- Chapter 5 Where to go from here
26 | New features
1 Get(ScriptAnimationState) – Returns a value indicating whether or not
animations are enabled for the current script.
1 Get(TriggerGestureInfo) – In FileMaker Go, returns details about the
gesture that activated an OnGestureTap trigger.
1 Get(WindowOrientation) – Returns a value indicating the orientation of
the window on which the script is acting (not necessarily the foreground
window).
Changed functions
1 GetLayoutObjectAttribute(): isFrontTabPanel is now isFrontPanel;
isObjectHidden returns 1 (True) if objectName is hidden on a record.
1 Get(TriggerCurrentTabPanel) is now Get(TriggerCurrentPanel).
1 Get(TriggerTargetTabPanel) is now Get(TriggerTargetPanel).
Changed and removed features
1 Increase in cache size – The default cache size has been increased to
128 MB.
1 Instant Web Publishing – FileMaker Pro no longer hosts database files
via Instant Web Publishing. Use FileMaker WebDirect or Custom Web
Publishing, which require FileMaker Server.
1 Support for inserting sound into container fields – Menu commands that
support recording sound into container fields have been removed from
FileMaker Pro. (Inserting audio/video and QuickTime files is still
supported.)
1 Exporting and saving records in Excel .xls format – FileMaker Pro no
longer supports exporting or saving records in Excel 95-2004 Workbook
(.xls) format.
FileMaker Pro 13 Advanced
1 Database Encryption feature – Encrypt database files to protect them
from unauthorized access while the files are being stored on disk, by
requiring all database clients to open encrypted database files with an
encryption password.