Powerful sorting and relational features come from simple databases. Open-ended tool is practically limitless. Good tutorials and templates to get started. Can dynamically render Web pages within FileMaker Pro. Universal binary.
Doesnt dynamically work with Address Book or iCal. Undo system sometimes gives multiple steps back, but often doesnt. Bento import doesnt retain those layouts or features.
FileMaker Pro wields so much power that developers make careers out of custom-building databases. But even home users can access the majority of these features to organize and manage any data.FileMaker Pro 10...
Sammanfattning: Kevin McAuliffe As an editor and instructor, the one thing that I stress over and over again to my students (and fellow editors and assistants for that matter) is that organization is key to almost everything that you do. You can be the best editor, bu...
Sammanfattning: Note: My friend Mark Chinsky has authored some popular articles for Gear Diary such as this LED Light Bulb review and the AeroGarden Pro 100. His day job is consulting on ERP accounting software where I know he’s an avid FileMaker Pro user so I&rsqu...
Overall, FileMaker Pro 10 is an evolutionary upgrade to an already-great database tool that mostly focuses on usability improvements. But once you try it, you won't want to go back....
Status toolbar does more than the tools it replaces; saved finds are helpful; allows sending e-mail from within FileMaker Pro; dynamic summary reports with editable data; imports Bento libraries; script triggers add flexibility for developers; includes in...
Major changes to status toolbar will take some getting used to; still no thin-client version; standalone runtimes are single-user only; standalone runtimes lack PDF-creation capability available when databases are opened in a full copy of the program.
Saved finds, dynamic summary reports, and script triggers make FileMaker Pro 10 a very desirable upgrade for current users. And if you remember the pain of upgrading from versions 6 to 7, panic not: the format of FileMaker Pro 10 databases has not cha...
Sammanfattning: One of my jobs is to break databases programmed by a colleague. She writes the code, I break the code. I’m very good at breaking things. Fortunately, she’s very good at fixing what I break. But when it comes to writing a database...
Sammanfattning: FileMaker is one of the world’s leading databases. It’s also especially popular on Mac OS, thanks largely to FileMaker being a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple. In case you’re reading this review and don’t have any idea what a database is, let me exp...
