FileMaker News

New FileMaker Pro 8.5! In this issue, learn more about the new features and upgrade from US$99.

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New! FileMaker Pro 8.5 is now available!

[ FileMaker Pro 8.5 ]

Web Data Delivered. On Demand.

This exciting new version includes the breakthrough FileMaker Web Viewer, plus native support for Intel-based Macs, an online learning center, new functions, new scripts, and more! FileMaker is also shipping three other new products: FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced, FileMaker Server 8.0v4, and FileMaker Server 8.0v4 Advanced. The new applications will take advantage of a performance increase running on Macintosh Intel computers.

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See the new FileMaker Web Viewer!

[ FileMaker Web Viewer ]

The FileMaker Web Viewer in FileMaker Pro 8.5 is truly one of a kind. As effortlessly as you can bookmark a web page in your browser, you can add a live web page to a record in your database. Build it once, and then let your database deliver information from the Web directly to FileMaker.


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FileMaker Server 8.0v4 is up to 116% faster!

[ FM Server 8.0v4 Benchmarks ]

FileMaker, Inc. recently tested FileMaker Server 8.0v4 on the Intel-based Mac machines and posted the results. In some routine database tasks, FileMaker Server 8.0v4 perfomed up to 116% faster. Note: your actual performance may vary.

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FileMaker in the field: Customer success stories

[ Toshiba ]

FileMaker Pro 8.5 helps streamline access to essential product data

Printers, copiers, fax machines, software enablers and services - you’ll find Toshiba Business Solutions in offices worldwide. And in Florida, the Professional Services team, under director Peter Davey, looks for ways to help users of those products keep documents on the move. The Web Viewer control earns raves from Peter. "Currently my people browse a FileMaker Pro products table for pricing information, and also a Sharepoint server for detailed information on the products, such as data sheets and white papers."

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Baron's Major Brands

[ Toshiba ]

New Hampshire retail appliance chain enhances product pricing & proposal system with new features of FileMaker Pro 8.5

With locations in four towns in central and southern New Hampshire, Baron's Major Brands brings good old-fashioned New England value to its customers, with a full line of name brand appliances. FileMaker Pro powers a customer survey system and assembles important product data used in calculating prices and margins, creating proposals, and generating price tags.

"Ever since I started working with FileMaker Pro back around 2000, I’ve been trying to think of a reliable way to display live web data," explains IT Manager Andy Frazier. "I've been having the most fun with the new Web Viewer Control, and I can see possibilities with the layout object improvements, too."

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Are you excited about the new features you are using in FileMaker Pro 8.5 or FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced and would like to tell the world about it? You can! We're eager to let you tell your story on our Customer Stories pages.


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Support Corner

FileMaker Announces the FileMaker Learning Center
Learn FileMaker Pro with ease! Quickly tap into the richest features of the FileMaker product line. Whether you are a novice or an expert, the FileMaker Learning Center will help you get up and running quickly on numerous features of FileMaker Pro. It offers step-by-step video tutorials and other resources so that you can learn FileMaker Pro at your own pace. Learn more.
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The FileMaker Support Team

Tips and tricks

Find-Within-a-Find
Do you find you often need to perform a find within an existing found set?
Here's how.

Do you find you often need to perform a find within an existing found set? For example, now that you've found all the Smiths and Smythes in your database; you might want to further refine the search to see which ones have addresses in Ohio. No problem.

  • Enter Find mode.

  • Type "Ohio" into the state field.

  • DO NOT click Find; instead go to the requests menu and select "Constrain Found Set."

  • FileMaker will perform the find only within your existing found set and return the results as the new found set.

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