Installation and New Features Guide (Mac OS)

New features in FileMaker Pro 2-3
Browse and Find mode improvements
You can now revert changes after you modify a record or a find request.
You can save space in a database file by storing graphics by reference. With
this feature, you can store a graphic once but display it in many places
throughout the database.
FileMaker Pro now supports and works with empty found sets.
You can replace a field’s contents with other text, serial numbers, or a
calculation result.
For more information about these features, see chapter 4, “Working with
information in records,” in the
FileMaker Pro User’s Guide .
Editing enhancements
FileMaker Pro now supports “drag and drop” for text and graphics. You can
use drag and drop to move objects within a field, between fields, and
between files.
Additional text editing features allow you to:
1 insert tabs in fields and text objects
1 use a new text ruler to format text in fields and text objects
1 specify paragraph margins, indentation, and spacing above and below a
paragraph (in addition to line spacing)
1
format text in text objects or fields on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis
For more information about working with text and graphics on a layout, see
chapter 3, “Laying out and arranging information,” in the
FileMaker Pro
User’s Guide .
Field definition improvements
With the new options for field definitions, you can:
1 use global fields to show the same value in every record
1 validate data entry by calculation or a value list
1 auto-enter a value from the previous record or based on the result of a
calculation