April 4th, 2012· Eye-catching themes: Apply one of 40 stunning new themes to instantly change the look of your database.
· More layout tools: Use new gradients, image slicing and alignment guides to get the design precision you need.
· All-new Starter Solutions Manage projects, content, estimates and more with re-designed solutions – now with layouts for iPad and iPhone.
· Enhanced container fields Drag and drop files into your database, render images faster, and securely store and manage data externally.
· Quick Charts
· Create eye-catching charts in a just a few clicks with the new integrated set-up and customization window.
· iOS design and development tools – Get design tools, themes, scripts and calculation functions to help you quickly build apps for iPad and iPhone.
August 9th, 2011Data Formatting:
· OS X Lion only: Addressed an issue with some date field formats showing Asian characters.
· OS X Lion only: Addressed an issue with not being able to use zero or negative numbers in data formatting in the Inspector and in some controls in the Chart Setup dialog.
February 10th, 2011File references performance:
· Mac OS X: Improved performance when opening a hosted file that references multiple related files by DNS name rather than an IP address.
Printing:
· Mac OS X: Addressed an issue where using printing presets created in another application to print in FileMaker caused the FileMaker print options to disappear the next time you tried to print.
· Windows and Mac OS X: Addressed an issue with text in a field spanning one or more page breaks being horizontally truncated in printouts, previews, and PDF exports.
Send Mail:
· Mac OS X: Addressed an issue where Send Mail did not work with Outlook 2011.
June 30th, 2010Field Definition:
· Addressed an issue where field definition updates would sometimes take a longer than expected time to complete.
· Mac OS X: Addressed an issue where the application could crash if you made changes to the field options for an ODBC based field and then switched to the Storage tab.
Recovery:
· Addressed an issue that caused the FileMaker consistency check to fail to detect damaged access privileges.
Snapshot Link:
· Addressed an issue where the snapshot link file would fail to restore the snapshots when the file had an externally referenced file.
· Addressed an issue where the sort order was not restored using a snapshot link file where the sort is based on a supplemental field on an ODBC table.
Scripting:
· Windows 7: Addressed an issue where the application could crash if you scrolled through a script with a large number of steps in the Edit Script dialog.
· Mac OS X: Addressed an issue where the context of running script can be changed when the user clicks on another open window's title if the script is creating and closing temporary windows.
· Mac OS X: Addressed an issue where the progress dialog would show during script execution even if you chose Hide from the application icon in the Dock.
· Addressed an issue where copying and pasting a Perform Find script step could lose the contents of the variables defined for the Date, Time, or Timestamps fields.
Quick Find:
· Addressed an issue where Quick Find finds data from fields that are not currently shown on the layout.
Value Lists:
· Mac OS X: Addressed an issue with drop-down lists not widening to show all values when the field uses certain Asian fonts.
· Mac OS X: Addressed an issue where application might crash when you activate and dismiss fields set up as drop-down lists or drop-down calendars.
Printing:
· Addressed an issue where rotated text does not slide properly when printing.
Runtime:
· Addressed an issue where runtimes could not be created if there was no internet access.
· Windows: Addresses an issue that required that the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable libraries be installed before allowing you to create runtime solutions that will run on any supported Microsoft Windows operating system.
Plug-ins:
· Mac OS X: Addressed an issue where functions stored in resource forks failed to load.
· Addressed an issue with prepared SQL statements not accepting query parameters ('?') as arguments to functions.
· Addressed an issue where application could crash in SQL engine with certain limited privileges.
General:
· Addressed an issue with empty merge variables appearing on layouts in Browse, Find, and Preview modes.
· Windows: Addressed an issue where portals flicker when scrolled.
· Addressed a permissions issue on Mac OS X that caused the fast user switch environment to not function as expected.
· Addressed an issue on Mac OS X where changing field options in Table View while there is a remote connection caused the application to crash if custom menus were installed.
· Addressed an issue when saving a PDF from FileMaker onto Windows 2003 & 2008 server the files were created without Domain Admins and Domain Users.
Excel Import:
· Addressed an issue with Japanese furigana (phonetic guides) being added to the kanji data when you import .xlsx files.
IWP:
· Addressed an issue where IWP settings could display an out of range port number when FileMaker Pro 10 and FileMaker Pro 11 are installed on the same machine with IWP enabled.
· Addressed an issue where objects in the header or footer do not align with
objects in the body after horizontal scrolling.
xDBC:
· Addressed an issue where record modification cannot be reverted with the JDBC cancelRowUpdates() method in the ResultSet class.
· Addressed an issue where FileMaker could crash when the statement handle was not freed when using SQLDisconnect().
· Addressed an issue with JDBC update methods not updating record values if the ResultSet Class is the primary key column.
· Addressed an issue where an error occurs with exponents that are used in VALUES clauses in SQL statements.
· Addressed an issue where no text value is displayed with MS Word Mail Merge if the maximum number of characters was not specified in the field.
· Addressed an issue with restarting xDBC after sharing was disabled in a client connection.
· Addressed an "incompatible type" exception error that resulted from using PreparedStatement.setNull() to insert a null value into a number, date, time, or timestamp field.
· Addressed an error that occurred with joins in SQL statements if there was no space between the ON command and the ON parameters.
March 10th, 2010Clear Recent Files:
· A “Clear Recent” menu item has been added to the end of the Open Recent hierarchal menu.
· When selected, the list of recent files is cleared from the menu and from the recent Files item of the FileMaker Quick Start Screen.
Drag and Drop Behavior for a Container Field with a QuickTime Movie:
· Dragging and dropping QuickTime movie to the desktop is no longer supported.
· Dragging and dropping QuickTime movies between container field is now supported.
· Dragging and dropping does not show the movie poster.
Merge Variables in Layouts:
· Variables are now supported in layouts, akin to Merge Fields and the handful of special sequences that are dynamically expanded, such as // and @@.
· The syntax for a merge variable is similar to a merge field, where the variable name (e.g. $$gCompanyName) is wrapped between the > character sequences (e.g. .
· There is a new Merge Variable menu item in the Insert menu in Layout mode, directly below the Merge Field... menu item. It inserts a placeholder .
Some restrictions are:
· If the variable name is not a variable that is currently set to any value, the text remains unexpended (e.g. ).
· The repetition syntax from the calculation engine is not supported (e.g. $var[2]).
· New Privilege Sets - Switch to Minimum menu setting
· In previous versions of FileMaker, creating a new Privilege Set would set default privileges to “Minimum.” Except for Available menu Commands, which defaulted to “All.”
· In FileMaker 11, it now defaults to “Minimum.”
Animations (Mac Only):
On Mac OS, the following transition animations have been added:
· Drop-Down Lists "drop down" from the field to which they are assigned when activated.
· When a user changes the units of the rulers, the ruler contents and the "Unit Tile" control at the intersection of the rulers will fade out, then fade back in with new unit markings.
· The opening "Splash Screen" now displays with a "ripple in" effect; it does a simple "fade out" when it is taken down.
· Drag Image Appearance (Mac Only) - The "Drag Tracking" image that is used while dragging is a translucent rendering of the actual objects being dragged, so as to better distinguish between the "drag tracking" image and the "drop location" image.
Bento date format support during imports:
· FileMaker now recognizes the date and timestamp formats used by Bento when importing data and reformats the text as a FileMaker-acceptable date or timestamp. Bento dates/timestamps imported into an existing date/timestamp field will pass validation, as will dates/timestamps imported into a text field (as when a Bento library is dragged onto the FileMaker Pro icon) that is later converted into a date/timestamp field.
· Dates exported by Bento in CSV format are stored in a subset of the ISO-8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD, e.g. 2009-03-04), as are timestamps (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS, e.g. 2009-03-25T15:50:32). FileMaker Pro 11 allows Bento dates, but only during import. Typing an ISO-8601 directly into a date field will still fail validation (except in locales where the date is in that format by default), and the date is reformatted according to the current locale during the import.
· Identification of Bento dates relies on the current behavior of Bento where the creation timestamp is always exported as the first field of a record in ISO-8601 format. The identification technique has the side effect of never allowing dates/timestamps stored in ISO-8601 format to be imported into FileMaker while preserving the ISO-8601 format if the first field in a record is an ISO-8601-formatted timestamp.
· CFM plug-in from third party no longer supported (Mac only) - FileMaker Pro 11 only supports Mach-O plug-in for third party plug-in and no longer supports CFM type plug-in on Mac.
· Conditional Formatting and Quick find badges added - FileMaker shows special badges in layout objects with Tooltips and Script Triggers (that can be switched on/off via the View > Show menus).
July 15th, 2009Import/Export:
· DBF import and export are available.
· Mac OS X: Addressed an issue to prevent a failure when attempting to export Excel (*.xls) without Rosetta installed.
Excel:
· Addressed an issue where an Excel file could be created displaying data under the wrong header if a field was removed using the Modify Table View feature.
· Addressed an issue where the application could crash if you imported an Excel 2007 file that contains a copied worksheet with named ranges.
Calculations:
· Addressed an issue where the Random calculation function could generate non-random values on certain machines. The Random calculation will generate values greater than 0 and less than 1. The value will never be 1.
Recovery:
· Addressed an issue that causes custom functions to occasionally get corrupted during recovery.
· Addressed an issue that causes recovery to report no issues when there are invalid data blocks in the file.
SMTP Mail:
· Addressed an issue with some SMTP servers that could lead to the BCC email recipients being shown inappropriately.
· Addressed an issue where UTF-8 data is not being encoded correctly in SMTP mail.
Printing and PDF:
· Mac OS X: Addressed an issue where the application would crash when printing to host-based printer models.
· Addressed an issue where saving records to PDF could crash if the starting page number was not 1 and the layout extended beyond one page.
Networking:
· Addressed an issue where a file set to ask a user to change the password on next login fails to change the password if the client and server are not the same version.
External Data Sources:
· Addressed an issue where a FileMaker-based number field added to an external data source table does not display a zero.
General:
· Addressed an issue where Auto-Complete in a field with multiple lined data fails to function unless you are on the last empty line of the text field.
· Addressed an issue where a file set to use the system formats would still insert the date in layout mode with the file format, which may not match the system format.
· Addressed a formula issue in the script for the New Layout/Report dialog to correctly account for localized formats to enter the correct view mode after a layout is created.
IWP:
· Addressed an issue for some customers with Instant Web Publishing that causes any custom home page in the Web Folder in the FileMaker application folder to be ignored. The problem could also prevent the contents of a container field from being visible in a browser if the Instant Web Publishing solution refers to files stored in the Web folder.
January 7th, 2009· Script Triggers.
· Saved Finds.
· Themes and Templates.
· Dynamic Reports.
· Send Mail via SMTP.
· Many more enhancements.
December 5th, 2007· Instant Web Publishing can now be correctly enabled and disabled on Mac OS X 10.5.
· A problem has been fixed in which Instant Web Publishing might display the wrong value from a value list. In version 9.0v1 and 9.0v2, this problem could occur when one value list item is a substring of another value in the list. For example, if a text field uses a value list containing room A7 and room A73, and the field is set to room A73, Instant Web Publishing erroneously displays room A7 instead. In version 9.0v1 and 9.0v2, the erroneously displayed data could then be committed to the database, if the user entered Edit mode and clicked Submit.
· Support added for Safari 3 and Firefox 2 on Mac OS X 10.5. See the FileMaker 9 Instant Web Publishing Guide for other supported web browsers.
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