May 22, 2019 Blog, FileMaker, FileMaker 18, FileMaker Techniques FileMaker 18FileMaker Pro Advanced 18FM 18Full AccessManage Users FMPA18 – Delegating User Management without Full Access With the release of FileMaker Pro Advanced 18, full access users can delegate user management to any user. This tool reduces the administrative burden on database administrators, in addition to decreasing the response time when it comes to changes in user accounts. For example, the person(s) conducting employee onboarding/offboarding can now create, edit or delete users. Additionally, someone like an office manager would now be able to reset user passwords instead of sending a request to a database administrator. Read More By Karl Jreijiri
May 22, 2019 Blog, FileMaker, FileMaker 18, FileMaker Techniques, FileMaker Training, User Interface Design FileMaker 18FileMaker Pro Advanced 18FileMaker ServerFM 18FM ServerImporting 9 Best New Features of FileMaker 18 Apple released FileMaker Pro Advanced 18 on May 22, 2019. AppWorks delved into FileMaker 18 in search of new functionality, and we were far from disappointed. Read on for our favorite shiny new features and changes in version 18. Read More By Eleanor Fulton
May 22, 2019 Blog, FileMaker, FileMaker 18, FileMaker Techniques, FileMaker Training FileMaker 18FileMaker Pro Advanced 18FM 18Scripting FileMaker 18: How to Use the New Data File Script Steps FileMaker 18 offers a series of new script steps that add native file creation and manipulation to the developer’s toolkit. The utility of these new script steps will be fully realized once people start using them, but right away I can foresee some great use cases. Write records to a text file for import into another system? Generate an HTML document? Custom local log files? All are possible with these new script steps. Read More By David Weiner
May 22, 2019 Blog, FileMaker, FileMaker 18, FileMaker Techniques FileMaker 18FileMaker Pro Advanced 18FM 18Launch App New in FMPA 18: Open Specific App at Launch One of the new features in FileMaker Pro Advanced 18 is the ability to automatically open a specific app at launch. This feature is available for Windows and MacOS. Read More By Karl Jreijiri
May 22, 2019 Blog, FileMaker, FileMaker 18, FileMaker Techniques FileMaker 18FileMaker Pro Advanced 18FM 18LoopingWhile Loops While Loops – New Feature in FileMaker 18 While the Loop script step has been around since FileMaker 6, and recursive custom functions have been around since FileMaker 7, a native loop function that could be used within a calculation has remained a long awaited feature, until now! Read More By Michelle Davison