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FileMaker Pro features by version
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• Improved integration with external SQL sources (ESS) – If one or more table names have
changed in an ODBC data source, you can update links between a FileMaker Pro file and
the source. You can also force-commit changes when optimistic locking otherwise prevents
the commit action.
• Compatibility information in script steps – In Help and the Edit Script dialog box, the
compatibility section has been refined to include FileMaker
Pro, FileMaker Server
scheduled script, FileMaker
Go, Custom Web Publishing, and Instant Web Publishing. Help
also includes whether a script step is supported in runtime solutions.
• Insert File script step – You can now specify advanced options for the Insert File dialog,
which appears when you choose a file to insert into a container field. These options include
whether content can be inserted by reference, whether content can be compressed, and
which formats are allowed in the field.
• New Window script step – Creates a new window based on the foreground window. You can
create a document window, a floating document window, or a dialog window.
• Changed script steps, functions, and script triggers:
• Allow Toolbars script step is now Allow Formatting Bar.
• Show/Hide Status Area script step is now Show/Hide Toolbars.
• Get(AllowToolbarState) function is now Get(AllowFormattingBarState).
• OnFileClose script trigger is now OnLastWindowClose.
• OnFileOpen script trigger is now OnFirstWindowOpen.
• Enhancements to script triggers – Four windows script triggers are available in a new Script
Triggers tab in the File Options dialog box: OnWindowOpen, OnWindowClose,
OnFirstWindowOpen, and OnLastWindowClose.
• Changed features:
• Plug-in updating – Plug-in updating has been simplified. You now store plug-ins in
solution files and install updates from container fields. The Auto Update plug-in has
been removed from FileMaker
Pro.
• Table View sorting – Instead of clicking a column heading to sort data, you now choose
from the shortcut menu for the column. This makes sorting more predictable and allows
for selection of one or more column headers in order to perform additional actions on
the associated fields.
• Importing data from FileMaker Pro databases – Import order has been improved. The
addition or deletion of fields after field mapping no longer affects the sort order in import
target files.
• Extended privilege sets – The fmmobile and fmxslt extended privileges have been
removed. A new extended privilege, fmreauthenticate10, has been added for
FileMaker
Go. Also, brackets have been removed from all default extended privileges
for consistency and to enable editing.
• You can now specify which buttons in the Specify Custom dialog box commit data to a
database.
• Mac OS X Lion: Export to .xls requires Rosetta, which is not available on OS X Lion.
• Removed features:
• Mac OS X: Support for importing photos from a digital camera or device – Script steps
and menu commands that support importing photos from a digital camera or device
(also known as Image Capture) have been removed from FileMaker
Pro.