Third-party Press Release
Troi Automatisering releases Troi Activator Plug-in for FileMaker Pro 8
New cross platform plug-in runs native in FileMaker Pro 8 and lets you trigger scripts on the same or other computers.
Automatisering today announced the availability of Troi
Activator
Plug-in 2.0.1 for FileMaker Pro 8.
What is the Activator Plug-in?
The Activator Plug-in is a very powerful tool for triggering
scripts
across the network, even over the Internet. All from within
FileMaker
you can:
- trigger a FileMaker script on a different client computer
- trigger a FileMaker script over the Internet
- run a script and send data to a different FileMaker
application,
all in the background
- use the built-in security to prevent unauthorized
triggering
- send a number (e.g. a record ID) and a long text with the
trigger
- start and stop listening for remote trigger messages with one
script step
Except from remote triggering you can also trigger scripts on
the
same computer:
- trigger a script on a specified date and time
- schedule events which trigger any script you want
- trigger a script after exiting a field
- validate fields with a custom script suited to your specific
validation
needs
Peter Baanen, company president, states: "Finally we have a
FileMaker
Pro 8 version of our versatile script trigger plug-in. As it is
a
FileMaker 7 native plug-in, it can also run with FileMaker Pro
7."
New Features
Troi Activator Plug-in 2.0.1 adds these new functions and
features:
-The plug-in is completely rewritten for FileMaker 7 and 8.
-It has been converted to the external function API of FileMaker
Pro 7.
-All functions now support Unicode characters.
-The plug-in uses the built-in triggering of the new FileMaker
API,
making it more robust.
-You can specify data to be returned as the script parameter of a
script.
The changes since the public beta are:
- The Background Runtime Solution is now available, for both Mac
OS X
and Windows.
- The example files are improved.
- A few bugs are fixed.
Suggested Uses
The Activator allows you to:
- create a real-time appointment solution, where you can notify
a
colleague (on a different computer) of changes in his/her
appointments
- notify a user that a shared document can be used
- process data in the background in a different FileMaker
application
- get someone out of a record, so that it is no longer
locked
All these features also work in a runtime solution and
between
different versions of FileMaker Pro. So for example you can send
data
from a FileMaker 6 runtime to a FileMaker Pro 8 database. We
invite
you to test drive the new functions and see what you can do with
it!
Pricing & Availability
A fully functional demo version of Troi Activator Plug-in 2.0.1
is
available for downloading at Troi's Web site at:
<http://www.troi.com/software/activatorplugin.html>.
Troi Activator Plug-in 2.0.1 works with FileMaker Pro 7 and 8.
The
plug-in can also be used with runtimes from FileMaker Developer 7
or
with FileMaker Advanced 8. The plug-in is available for Mac OS
X
10.3.9, Mac OS X 10.4.2 or higher and Windows 2000 (Service Pack
6)
or Windows XP.
Licenses cost US$ 89 per user. The registration you receive
after
paying the license fee will work with version 2.0.1 as well as
with
the classic Activator 1.5.1 for FileMaker 6, , which was
just
released too. Details on developer licenses and multi-user
discounts
can be found on our web site. You can order licenses from our
web
site.
Upgrade information
Product updates from version 1.4.1, bought on or after September
1st,
2004, are FREE: eligible users have been be sent a new
registration
string. Contact us if you have not receive yours. Upgrades
from
version 1.4.1 or earlier, bought before September 1st, 2004,
are
available from US$ 19 per user.
Upgrade prices for other licenses can be found on our web site.
You
can order upgrades from our web site.
Six for Eight
Troi Automatisering now has released a total of 6 FileMaker Pro
8
native plug-ins. Please check our product overview page for
more
information on this great selection of FileMaker 8 plug-ins,
which
also run with FileMaker 7. You can find it here:
<http://www.troi.com/software/index.html>.
About Troi Automatisering
Troi Automatisering is leading developer of cross platform
FileMaker
Pro plug-ins and winner of the FileMaker Pro Excellence Award
2001.
For more information, visit our web site at:
<http://www.troi.com/>.
Contact information
Diana Budding,
Troi Automatisering
Vuurlaan 18
2408 NB Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-172-426606
Fax: +31-172-470539
Newsroom: <http://www.troi.com/news/>