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FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced
Advanced Database Design Made Easy
FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced includes all the features of FileMaker
Pro 8.5 plus a suite of advanced development and
customization tools to help you design and develop more powerful,
more customized database solutions – faster and easier than
ever before!
Design and develop
databases faster and easier
Customize your database even more by adding your own menus and menu
items using the Custom Menu feature of FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced.
Plus, you can add Tooltips to layout objects to make your layouts
more intuitive. Even create standalone, runtime applications that
include the new FileMaker Web Viewer. Learn more about
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Here are 10 ways to turbocharge your solutions using FileMaker
Pro 8.5 Advanced
- Customize menus by executing your scripts, renaming,
adding, or deleting menu items or replacing entire menus
with your custom choices for a completely customized solution.
Your customized menu behavior will also affect toolbar icons,
context menus, window options, keyboard shortcuts, and the
Mode menus.
- Make your layouts more informative and intuitive by adding
names and text-based or calculated Tooltips to any field
or layout object. Tooltips can include static text or calculated
results to provide more insights into your data or to temporarily
provide information that you don't want permanently displayed
on your layout.
- Build or modify databases faster by importing multiple
tables at once or by using copy/paste to move fields, tables,
scripts, and script steps in or across files.
- Pinpoint problem areas as you step through scripts in
a script debugger. You can even temporarily disable scripts
to test portions of a script.
- Keep an eye on current field values, variables, or expressions
with the Data Viewer. This is particularly useful when debugging
scripts or to test calculation formulas without modifying
the database schema.
- Create standalone runtime solutions that do not require
the FileMaker Pro application.
- Create a kiosk-based application where all menus are hidden
— great for mailing list signs up or event registrations.
- Build more robust calculations and extend database capabilities
with new Custom Functions and the External Function Plug-in
API.
- Generate a report that provides comprehensive information
on your database schema and options, like fields, tables,
Custom Menus, Web Viewers, and more with the Database Design
Report. It’s invaluable as a troubleshooting tool
by locating missing fields, broken relationships, problem
calculations, and more.
- Use the file maintenance tools to maximize database performance
and to compact and recover unused space for faster access.
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Create your own menus
Customize your database even more by using the Custom Menu
feature of FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced. Modify FileMaker menus
to execute scripts from menu items. You can rename, add or
delete menu items, customize keyboard shortcuts and even add
or delete entire menus. Customized menu behavior is also inherited
by toolbar icons, context menus, window options, keyboard
shortcuts, and the Mode menus.
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Custom Tooltips |
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Add tooltips to make things easy
Make your layouts more informative and intuitive by adding
Tooltips to any field or layout object. Mouse over an item
to which you’ve added a Tooltip to display helpful tips
for using your solution or calculation results. You can even
include static text or calculated results to provide more
insights into your data or to temporarily provide information
that you don't want permanently displayed on your layout.
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Distribute your
solutions off-the-shelf
If you'd like to distribute a database to non-FileMaker users,
creating a Runtime application is a great solution. FileMaker
Runtime applications make it easy to distribute off-the-shelf,
royalty-free FileMaker solutions that allow users to access
FileMaker database information, but limit their ability to
make modifications. Runtime applications can even include
the new FileMaker Web Viewer capabilities. Runtime applications
cannot be shared over a network and do not include the ability
to create Adobe® PDF files.
DIY data entry
“Kiosk-based” applications display your database
in full-screen “presentation” mode while hiding
the application menus. Use this “do-it-yourself”
data entry feature for event registrations and mailing list
sign ups.
Use custom functions &
external function plug-ins
Use the FileMaker Custom Function feature to build powerful,
recursive custom functions that can be reused across tables.
Plus you can build even more robust calculations and extend
databases with the External Function Plug-in API.
If you'd like to distribute a database to non-FileMaker
users, creating a Runtime application is a great solution.
FileMaker Runtime applications make it easy to distribute
off-the-shelf, royalty-free FileMaker solutions that allow
users to access FileMaker database information, but limit
their ability to make modifications. Runtime applications
can even include the new FileMaker Web Viewer capabilities.
Runtime applications cannot be shared over a network and do
not include the ability to create Adobe® PDF files.
DIY data entry
“Kiosk-based” applications display your database
in full-screen “presentation” mode while hiding
the application menus. Use this “do-it-yourself”
data entry feature for event registrations and mailing list
sign ups.
Use custom functions & external function plug-ins
Use the FileMaker Custom Function feature to build powerful,
recursive custom functions that can be reused across tables.
Plus you can build even more robust calculations and extend
databases with the External Function Plug-in API.
What's included with FileMaker
Pro 8.5 Advanced
The boxed version of FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced includes
a product CD, product documentation, customer support information,
and a license key for installation.
The downloadable version contains the product software, and
electronic version of the product documentation in PDF format,
and a link to an electronic license certificate that contains
a license key needed for installation.
Language: English
System Requirements
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Macintosh
32-bit machine only
Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G3, G4, G5 processor or
Intel processor
256MB of RAM
CD or DVD drive and hard disk drive
PowerPC processor requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) or 10.4.5
(Tiger)
o Intel processor requires Mac OS X 10.4.5
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Windows
32-bit machine only
Pentium III 500MHz or higher
256MB of RAM
CD or DVD drive and hard disk drive
SVGA (800 x 600) or higher resolution video adapter and display
Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4), Windows XP Professional Edition
(Service Pack 2)
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 Product
Feature Sheet FileMaker Pro 8 Advance(PDF)
All
products documentation 
Update: Jan 29, 2007 |
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Microsoft