Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Filemaker Inc.
EAN: 0044866026545
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Filemaker Inc.
Manufacturer: Filemaker Inc.
Model: TD804LL/A
Packaged Height: 170 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 950 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 155 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 810 hundredths-inches
Platform: Mac OS X
Platform: Windows XP
Platform: Windows 2000
Publisher: Filemaker Inc.
Release Date: 2005-08-29
Studio: Filemaker Inc.
Feature:
- Design and develop customized, advanced databases quickly
- Customize your database by modifying FileMaker menus to execute scripts from menu items
- Enhanced reports help you troubleshoot missing references, broken relationships, calculations, and more
- Use the file maintenance tools to maximize performance and to compact and recover unused space
- You must be a licensed user of FileMaker Pro 6 Developer or FileMaker Pro 7 Developer to qualify for this upgrade
Product Description:
Upgrade only; Previous version of FileMaker Pro required
FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced makes it easier than ever to design and develop customized, advanced databases quickly. It has all the features of FileMaker Pro 8 plus advanced development and customization tools so you can efficiently build more powerful, more customized databases! With the ability to customize menus and add Tooltips, as well as robust troubleshooting and database analysis tools, FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced provides powerful tools, like: Duplicate tables and relationships in the Relationships Graph Supports dynamic selection of field repetition through the use of a calculation Display more meaningful information in Value Lists while hiding cryptic associated values Runtime Maker -- Create standalone runtime applications for non-networked coworkers Kiosk Maker -- Display your database in full-screen ?presentation? mode while hiding the application menus
Customer Reviews:
 Filemaker power-user, 2007-03-24
Filemaker 8 is a must for long-time FM users. FM8 added many of my wishes: saving of found sets to PDF, Mail, Excel - all scriptable as well; layout creation aids such as Tabs and drop-down calendars. The continued poor implementation of Format Painter is rather frustrating and disappointing though. It needs to operate more like that of CAD programs, with a simple modifier key toggle between picking-up and putting-down attributes and a dialog for choosing which attributes. The function is that important (hello FM?).
But the big celebration was in the scripting department. Global and local variables and the various script steps for setting and getting them, is the biggest improvement to FM in years. I literally rewrote all my applications in a 3-4 day whirlwind, resulting in shorter, simpler to troubleshoot scripts and faster performance. The Get(ScriptResult) function likewise makes sense and short work of previously multiple-nested arguments. Go to Related Record is an excellent addition to the script toolbox and sees constant use.
Also, finally your scroll wheel works.
The advanced version, despite the cost, provides developer functionality that I don't know how I ever lived without. Scripts that operate on multi-table databases can be very hard to troubleshoot, and these concepts are the very heart and soul of Filemaker, what really sets it apart from so many other programs. It's hard to think of any database concept which cannot be simply implemented now that I have these tools at my disposal. Many long-time problems I had struggled with were solved literally the first day I had Advanced.
On the down side, Filemaker alienated me for the first time as a long-time loyal user by doing two very annoying things:
1) A rather important, major release of 8.5 just weeks after I purchased 8 was made available to me for the standard upgrade price of $100. It is customary throughout the software industry to offer very recent buyers a discounted path to the next revision. No such luck.
2) Authorization was unbelievable cumbersome, involving the usual serial number, then an online check-in followed by an emailed, machine-specific serial number to unlock the software. This means that, in contradiction of Filemaker's own user license agreement, I cannot install it on my laptop and desktop machines as I have since Filemaker v3 without pleading my case to customer support, which basically offends me to the degree that I haven't bothered, using only my laptop for development. Attention Filemaker: your user base consists of honest people.
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