Installation and New Features Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Before you begin
- About this guide
- Registration and customer support
- Update notification
- About the license key
- Activating your FileMaker software
- Hardware and software requirements
- Networking requirements
- Web publishing requirements
- Requirements for other features (Windows)
- Requirements for other features (Mac OS)
- Features not supported in Mac OS X
- Features not supported in Windows
- Opening files from previous versions
- Updating your User Dictionary
- Installing under a volume license
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMaker Pro in Windows
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMaker Pro in the Mac OS
- Chapter 4 New features
About the license key | 7
About the license key
FileMaker software comes with a unique, 35-digit alphanumeric license
key. Do not lose this license key. We recommend that you keep the license
key in a safe place in case the software ever needs to be reinstalled.
You can find your license key(s) on the back of the CD sleeve. If you paid
for your software electronically, you received an email with a link to a
PDF file with your license key. You must enter a valid license key to
activate the software. See the following section,
“Activating your
FileMaker software,” for more information.
The license key ensures adherence to the end-user license agreement,
which generally allows for use of one (1) copy of the Software on a single
computer at a time (refer to your Software License). If the license key is
invalid or if another copy of the application installed with that same
license key is running on the network, the FileMaker
Pro application
displays this error message: “The maximum number of licensed users are
currently using this copy of FileMaker
Pro. Please refer to the License
Key section of your software documentation for further instructions.”
If you receive this error message, you have entered a duplicate license key.
To install FileMaker
Pro on multiple computers, you must have a unique
license key for each user, or obtain a volume license. You must license one
copy of FileMaker
Pro for each computer.
Activating your FileMaker software
FileMaker Pro software uses online activation technology to help ensure
you and your organization have a genuine copy of FileMaker software.
Activation also helps protect FileMaker, Inc. from unauthorized software
distribution.
To In FileMaker Pro, do this
Activate FileMaker Pro
at startup
In the FileMaker Activation dialog box, click Activate.
Activate commercial
software later
In the FileMaker Activation dialog box, click Activate Later.
Activate commercial
software during a grace
period
Choose Help menu > Activate. In the FileMaker
Activation dialog box, click Activate.