Development Guide

16 FileMaker Pro Advanced Development Guide
To distribute an updated primary file:
1. Open the original primary file from your copy of the runtime
solution in FileMaker Pro Advanced.
2. Make the changes to the primary file.
3. If necessary, create an Import script so users can import their
existing data into the new primary file.
For more information about importing data into upgraded runtime
solutions, see Help.
4. Send your users a copy of the new primary file with instructions to
replace the old primary file in the runtime database solution folder.
To distribute a new or updated auxiliary file:
1. In FileMaker Pro Advanced, create the new auxiliary file or open
the original auxiliary file (before it was bound) and make changes as
required.
2. If necessary, create an Import script so users can import their
existing data into the new file.
For more information about importing data into upgraded runtime
solutions, see Help.
3. Use the Developer Utilities to rebind all of the files in the runtime
database solution and include the new or updated auxiliary file.
Use the same binding key that you used for the primary file.
4. Send your users a copy of the new or updated auxiliary file along
with instructions to place it in the runtime database solution folder,
replacing the old file if appropriate.
As long as the binding key has not changed, you don’t need to
redistribute the runtime application or other solution files.
Creating Kiosk solutions
Kiosk mode is a way of displaying your database solution or your
runtime database solution on a full screen, without any toolbars or
menus. As the name suggests, Kiosk mode can be used to present your
database to users as an information kiosk. You can design your
database to run through a touch screen.
Kiosk mode is ignored if the solution is opened by accounts with the
Full Access privilege set, a privilege set that allows management of
extended privileges, or a privilege set that allows modification of
layouts, value lists, and scripts.
For your solution to display in Kiosk mode, you must:
1 create an account with a limited privilege set or create a specific
Kiosk account.
1 enable Kiosk mode. At the same time that you enable Kiosk mode,
you can bind the database as a runtime solution.
1 clear the default option of logging into the file with the Admin
account.
A Kiosk solution containing a single Help layout