Installation and New Features Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Before you begin
- About this guide
- Where to find FileMaker documentation
- Customer support, Knowledge Base, and Community
- Product notifications
- About the license key
- Backing up your FileMaker Pro download
- Requirements for features
- Converting the trial version to the full version of FileMaker Pro
- Upgrading FileMaker Pro from a previous version
- Opening files from previous versions
- Automating the installation process
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMaker Pro in Windows
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMaker Pro in macOS
- Chapter 4 New features
- Chapter 5 Where to go from here
Chapter 4 | New features 13
Script steps
New script steps:
1 Configure Region Monitor Script – Configures a specified script to run when an iOS device
enters or exits a specified region.
1 Open Launch Center – Opens the Launch Center, where you open, create, and manage
FileMaker solutions.
Changed script steps:
1 AVPlayer Set Options now allows you to change the zoom setting for the video and volume
settings for the audio. AVPlayer Play and AVPlayer Set Options now provide Embedded Only
as an additional option for displaying the media.
1 Go To Layout now allows you to specify the animation to use for switching to the new layout in
FileMaker Go.
1 Go To Related Record now allows you to specify the animation to use when displaying the
related record in FileMaker Go.
1 Insert From Device now allows you to specify the presentation for displaying the signature
capture screen.
1 Insert From URL now allows you to specify many supported cURL options.
1 New Window now allows you create a card, a window that is modal to its parent window.
1 Print now allows you to create PDFs in web browsers with FileMaker WebDirect.
1 Print Setup now allows you to specify PDF options for the Print script step and Save Records
As PDF script step on FileMaker Server and FileMaker WebDirect.
1 Save Records as PDF now allows you to save PDFs with FileMaker Server and
FileMaker WebDirect.
1 Several Insert script steps now allow you to specify a variable as the target.
Removed script steps:
1 The Set Allowed Orientations script step has been removed.
Functions
New functions:
1 Base64EncodeRFC – Returns data as text in the specified Base64 format.
1 CryptAuthCode – Returns a binary HMAC (keyed-hash message authentication code) using
the specified cryptographic hash algorithm.
1 CryptDigest – Returns a binary hash value generated by the specified cryptographic hash
algorithm.
1 Get(AccountGroupName) – Returns the current account’s group name when the account
authenticates via an external server or an OAuth identity provider.
1 Get(RegionMonitorEvents) – Returns events that caused the script specified in the Configure
Region Monitor Script script step to run.
1 HexDecode – Returns either container or text content from text encoded in hexadecimal format.