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FILEMAKER PRO 10 ADV

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From: FILEMAKER
Category: Software

List Price: ~~$509.00~~
Buy New: $465.03
You Save: $43.97 (9%)

New (4) Used (2) from $299.00

Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

4 reviews
Sales Rank: 4774

Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows Vista, Mac OS X
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.8

MPN: TT767LL/A
UPC: 044866035349
EAN: 0044866035349
ASIN: B001ONUVTM

Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days

Features:

•	Customize your database application even more by renaming, adding, or deleting menu and toolbar items with Custom Menus
•	Create standalone, runtime applications that don't require users to have FileMaker Pro.
•	Pinpoint problem areas by reviewing scripts step-by-step in the Script Debugger
•	Monitor fields, variables, expressions, and even test calculation formulas with the Data Viewer, as well as temporarily disable script steps to test portions of your scripts.
•	Update databases faster by importing multiple tables or by using copy and paste to move fields, tables, scripts, and script steps.

Advanced Development and Customization Tools

Design and develop databases faster and easier
Customize your database application even more by renaming, adding, or deleting menu and toolbar items with Custom Menus. Create standalone, runtime applications that don't require users to have FileMaker Pro.

Debug and troubleshoot more efficiently
Pinpoint problem areas by reviewing scripts step-by-step in the Script Debugger. Monitor fields, variables, expressions, and even test calculation formulas with the Data Viewer, as well as temporarily disable script steps to test portions of your scripts.

Modify and maintain with ease
Update databases faster by importing multiple tables or by using copy/paste to move fields, tables, scripts, and script steps. Get comprehensive information on database schema and options, like fields, web viewers, layouts, Custom Menus, and more with the Database Design Report.

Custom Menus
Get more control over the icons in the new Status Toolbar with Custom Menus. Choose which icons you want displayed and add or change the text associated with each one.

Script Debugger
Get more visibility into the new Script Triggers with the Script Debugger. You'll be able to easily keep track of exactly what scripts are being triggered with each event.

Database Design Report
Run reports on how all the new features in FileMaker Pro 10--including Script Triggers, Send Mail via SMTP, and Dynamic Reports--are being used with the Database Design Report.

Pinpoint problem areas as you step through scripts in the Script Debugger. Click to enlarge.

Keep an eye on current field values, variables, or expressions with the Data Viewer. Click to enlarge.

The Top Features in FileMaker Pro 10 Advanced

If you're using FileMaker Pro, you'll appreciate all the great benefits of FileMaker Pro 10 Advanced.

Custom Menus:
Customize menus by executing your scripts, renaming, adding, or deleting menu items or replacing entire menus with your custom choices for a completely customized solution.
Multiple Table Import:
Build or modify databases faster by importing multiple tables at once.
Script Debugger:
Pinpoint problem areas in scripts and Script Triggers.
Data Viewer:
Monitor fields, variables and calculations while troubleshooting.
Runtime Maker:
Create standalone runtime solutions that don't require FileMaker Pro.
Kiosk Maker:
Build applications where all menus are hidden.
Custom Functions:
Build your own functions and reuse them anywhere in the database file where they were created.
External Function Plug-in API:
Build more robust calculations and extend database capabilities.
Database Design Report:
Run comprehensive reports on all elements of the database schema.

Customer Reviews:
5 out of 5 stars

More then a desktop database October 27, 2009
ron hoagland (Bristol, PA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

I will first preface this by saying that I have been a small business desktop database developer for many years (around 1989). I have never used a product that is as versatile and up to date as Filemaker is. Being fully cross-platform (which there is no other) has been a great function for an application development platform. Filemaker has long shed its database only stereotype. Unlink older and almost unsupported desktop databases; Filemaker is growing larger and larger in support and usability. It has a long way to go to be Oracle but it won't take long. As of version 9 it has the ability to be interface with the entire best SQL database out there, and can be used very easily as a front end for any of them.

As a developer I have used it for 3 fortune 500 companies that interface with their Oracle backend databases and 2 others that use MS SQL. So to say that it's not up there with the big boys is a huge mistake.

As noted in another review, some complained about the EULA. Well to clarify that a bit, As long as I have been using FileMaker it has never sent any data anywhere. What they are asking about is that they may at some point ask you to see what you are doing with filemaker and it's up to you if you want to tell then and how you tell them. Unlike MS products that secretly send info back to MS, FileMaker has never done that to me. (Now if you are really worried about your EULA read Oracles or MSSql sometime. Basically you own the data they own the software that's it stored in and if they don't like the way you use the software... well you get the picture.)

Filemaker is incredibly versatile. I have built simple single table databases to highly complex business mission critical applications. Each very unique to the business's scope. So it is an application development suite that I would highly recommend to anyone looking at building any type of database solution.

5 out of 5 stars

As good as it gets October 11, 2009
Jesper Søholm (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I have used FileMaker as a user and developer for almost 20 years.

Some of you seem to judge the product as a cheap piece of shareware after 5-10 minutes testing. Others compare it to unnamed databases. Sure, you can get databases that will provide in- and output possibilities for free. I, too, use some of them for certain projects. But for differenct tasks than FileMaker. FileMaker is a full featured, extremely mature and reliable DB with a rock solid server foundation that you can build your buisiness on. Year after year. And with a developer environment, that hands you so many features and functions. If you add to that:

* client-server with up to 999 simultaneus users

* perfect cross-platform (Windows/Mac - alas, no Linux :-[)

* web-publishing (instant, customized or xml-feed)

* ligtning fast search in millions of records

* flexible and intuitive design tools to build user totally customizable interfaces

* send email from server or client via smtp

* webviewer that enables presentation of web pages inside FM

* tabs to cut down on presentation layouts

* very low learning curve for beginners

* direct SQL-access (read/write) to MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle

* excellent, flexible and unrivalled reporting (print or pdf)

* very compatible import/export posibilities

* script triggers

* customizable business logic

* many exellent, cheap plug-ins to further expand the power of FileMaker (provides a.o. system and internet integration)

To name just what spring to mind ...

In the late 90's I was giving up on FileMaker. The developer platform was not moving anywhere. But with the totally revamped version 7 in 2004 things changed. Since then every single update has been a major one. Check out the frequency here:

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Since 7 I have felt that the developers at FileMaker are actually listening and understanding what is important for FMP developers to get value to the customers - easy, fast and reliably.

FileMaker is not Oracle - and shouldn't be, but I bet it could often do the job of many existing Oracle installation much cheaper, much more flexible and with less developing time. Still, what is more interesting is, that at a very fair price you can get your business up and running on FileMaker AND grow and scale securely and with an incredible flexibility while growing your business.

FileMaker has become a professional tool with amazing power if you understand and known it to its full potential.

Unless you want to build a transatlantic tunnel or send rockets to Mars FileMaker can help you.

However if you just want to keep track of your VHS-video-collection, don't bother.

[I'm not affiliated with FileMaker Inc, but I am - happily - developing professional solutions in FileMaker Pro Advanced. And so could you!]

4 out of 5 stars

It could be so much better November 25, 2009
Sri Ahimsa
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I have worked with dbase/Clipper/FoxPro/Visual Basic and had been successful. I failed with Lotus Notes and generally have not done well with macro-based languages. I conclude my problems with FileMaker come from that same flaw. If it fits how you manipulate the world, you will have an exhilarating time; otherwise, you will have a lot of work to do.

If FileMaker programming style seems comfortable to you and you have spent time perusing a guidebook on it and are excited by the possibilities, do go for it.

1 out of 5 stars

EULA Peril October 9, 2009
M. Hughes (Denver)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful

This may be a great product but I will never know because I wont use it. Their legal department is a bit strident.This is probably a standard clause, but the implications are troubling.
The End User License Agreement states the following:
Consent to Use Data:
You agree that FMI and its subsidiaries may collect and use technical and related information including but not limited to you computer, system application software, and peripherals that is gathered periodcally to facilitate the provision of software updates, product support and other services to you (if any) related to the FMI software and to verify compliance with the terms of this license. FMI may use this isnformation as long as it is in a form that does not personally identify you to improve our products or to provide service and technolgies to you.

The intent looks harmless enough, but what is the user agreeing to here? The first sentence looks like a blanket authorization to full access to your PC. 'But not limited to' is extraordianarily vague and open ended. If file maker pro wants to return the favor by giving me access to their email servers ( as long as no employees are identified) to ensure that my vendor is supplying the most efficient and heartfelt customer service, then I wll gladly agree to their terms. I think I may have a long wait.

What does 'Technical data' mean with regard to the law?
What information is construed as 'Related'?

The agreement does not specify enough what FMI may not do with your info other than place a limitation on personally identifiable information (which also may be subject to interpretation)
I don't think providing access on an ongoing basis to sensitive personal information is my duty to a faceless corporation that may or may not have appropriate and robust internal security.

It may be nothing to worry about, but I don't need the software that bad.

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