Change a date on record and it’s automatically re-grouped into the appropriate month. Subsummaries now work in Browse mode, so you can see your monthly totals as you work. Previously, when you created reports in FileMaker, you would use the Preview mode to see your sales data grouped by months, and sub-totalled. If that sounds too much like programming, then how about a feature that requires no intervention? FileMaker now supports dynamic subsummaries. With a little thought you can foolproof the drudgery of your data-entry tasks, to suit your needs. With careful scripting you can make it impossible to type more than say ten characters into a field or properly capitalise postcodes as you enter them or switch layouts automatically as you page between records. This long-overdue killer feature will change the ways in which you can use FileMaker. There are script triggers - scripts can now run not just via buttons, or menu items, but in response to a huge set of user actions (for example, if you click a tab, edit a field, exit a field, press a key, change a layout, or switch mode). Under the hood the improvements are more subtle, but more impressive. If you often use the same find criteria, you can save your search criteria (and edit them) for later reuse. The Toolbar shows the breakdown between this found set and the remaining, omitted records as a pie-chart and clicking on the chart toggles between the two. Having performed a find, you’re only shown the records that match your criteria. Tap in the details that match the records you want to look at and hit. In Find mode, all the fields clearly show a magnifying glass symbol.
New users often have trouble with FileMaker’s Find mode, as it can be difficult to distinguish from the Browse (edit) mode. In table view, the new Modify… button, lets you choose which fields to display - no need to add or delete fields in Layout mode. You can jump to a particular record using the slider (with scrollwheel mouse support), and switching between the three different edit views - Form, List, and Table (similar to a spreadsheet) is a button click away. The controls themselves are more intuitive: in Browse mode, for example, you page left and right between records (rather than up and down). Initially, seasoned FileMaker users might miss the status area, but its customisable, iWork-like replacement, the Toolbar, should soon win them over. This isn’t just cosmetic surgery: real thought has gone into simplifying day to-day FileMaker use. Helping IT since 1993 Linksįilemaker Pro 10 Wednesday 21st January, 2009įorget Gok Wan! FileMaker Pro 10 is sporting a glossy new look. Dyce & Sons | Filemaker Pro 10 Dyce & Sons Ltd.
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