Installation and New Features Guide

Chapter 4
New features
This chapter provides you with an overview of the new features and
improvements in FileMaker
Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced.
Unless otherwise noted, please see FileMaker
Pro Help for more
information on these features.
New features in FileMaker Pro 9
Sharing and collaboration
1 Support for external SQL (ODBC) data sources — Display, access,
and use data from SQL tables. For example, you can add a table from
an external SQL database to the FileMaker
Pro relationships graph.
1 Supplemental fields — Add unstored calculation fields and summary
fields to SQL (ODBC) data source tables within FileMaker
Pro. Then
use these fields in FileMaker
Pro layouts, scripts, finds, sorts, joins, and
exports, without changing data from an external table. This feature lets
you extend SQL tables. For example, you can use supplemental fields
to display aggregated data from an external file as you would use
summary fields to display aggregated data stored in FileMaker
Pro files.
1 Email links to shared databases — Choose the new File menu > Send
Link menu item to send an email with URL links to FileMaker
Pro
shared databases. Use this feature with shared peer-to-peer or
FileMaker Server hosted databases.
1 Increased number of peer-to-peer file sharing users — Share files with
up to 9 concurrent users with FileMaker
Pro Network Sharing.