Features Include:

• Design and develop databases faster and easier - Customise your database even more by renaming, adding, or deleting menu and toolbar items. Add tooltips to layout objects to make your layouts more intuitive. Even create standalone, runtime applications.
• Debug and troubleshoot more efficiently - FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced includes essential debugging and reporting tools that help you build stable, reliable solutions more efficiently. It’s easier than ever to pinpoint problem areas by reviewing scripts step-by-step in the Script Debugger. You can 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 - Once you've designed and deployed your database, the FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced database reporting and optimisation features will help you update solutions more easily and keep them running at peak performance. 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. Plus, the FileMaker Maintenance Tools will ensure you're getting maximum performance from your solutions.

Top 10 ways to turbocharge your solutions using FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced:

• Customise menus and toolbars by renaming, adding, or deleting menu items or replacing entire menus with your own choices for a completely customised solution. When you update a menu the associated toolbar icons, context menus, window options, keyboard shortcuts, and the Mode menus are automatically updated to match.
• Make your layouts more informative by adding tooltips to fields or layout objects. Tooltips are static text or can be based on calculated results. Either way you will provide more insights into your data, and deliver essential information without cluttering your layout.
• Build or modify databases faster by importing multiple tables at once or by using copy/paste to move fields and tables in or across files.
• Pinpoint problem areas as you step through scripts in a Script Debugger. You can even temporarily disable scripts to test portions of a script.
• Keep an eye on current field values, variables, or expressions with the Data Viewer. Debug scripts and test calculation formulas without modifying your underlying database schema.
• Create standalone runtime solutions that do not require the FileMaker Pro application to be installed.
  Create a kiosk-based application where all menus are hidden – great for event registrations, surveys, and collecting names for mailing lists.
• Build more robust calculations and extend database capabilities with Custom Functions and the External Function Plug-in API.
• Generate a report that provides comprehensive information on your database schema and options, like fields, tables, Custom Menus, FileMaker Web Viewers, and more with the Database Design Report. It's invaluable as a troubleshooting tool by locating missing fields, broken relationships, problem calculations, and more.
• Use the file maintenance tools to maximise database performance and to compact and recover unused space for faster access.

Minimum System Requirements:

Windows XP Professional, Home Edition (Service Pack 2)

• Pentium III 500MHz or higher
• 256MB of RAM
• CD-ROM drive
• SVGA (800 x 600) or higher resolution video adapter and display

Windows Vista Ultimate, Business, Home

• 800 MHz 32-bit (x86) or higher
• 512 MB of RAM
• SVGA (800x600) or higher resolution video adapter and display
• CD-ROM drive
  
  

Mac OS X 10.4.8

• PowerPC G3, G4, G5 or Intel-based Mac
• 256 MB of RAM
• CD-ROM drive

* Version state is the minimum requirement. The software may also work with later versions certified by FileMaker, Inc.

Compatibility

FileMaker Pro 9 databases use the same file format (.fp7) as FileMaker Pro 8 and FileMaker Pro 7, therefore databases can easily be shared between these three versions. Features specific to the newer versions, are only supported in the newer versions (e.g. The new External SQL Data Source feature, introduced with FileMaker Pro 9, is only supported by FileMaker Pro 9.)

Additional requirements(all platforms):

• Networking: TCP/IP: limited to nine simultaneous FileMaker client connections; each client requires a licensed copy of the software; See FileMaker Server 9 for increased capacity.
  *Any computer accessing FileMaker Pro files over a network will need to have a licensed installation of versions 7, 8 or 9 of FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Pro Advanced.
• Instant Web Publishing: A host computer with continuous access to the Internet or intranet via TCP/IP (FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced can manage up to five simultaneous Instant Web Publishing sessions. See FileMaker Server 9 Advanced for increased capacity.)
• Web browser requirements: To use a database shared with Instant Web Publishing, Windows web users need Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.x or Firefox 1.x on Windows. On the Mac OS, web users need Safari 1.2.x (Mac OS X 10.3), Safari 2.0.x (Mac OS X 10.4) or Firefox 1.x only. On both platforms, some earlier versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Safari are blocked. Other Mozilla family browsers are not blocked but are unsupported and users will receive a dialog encouraging them to upgrade to a supported browser. JavaScript must be enabled in the web browser.

Educational Boxed Pricing:

The box program is available for customers wishing to buy fewer than 10 licenses. Licenses are perpetual and no upgrade paths are available. A server is required when 9 or more licenses are used concurrently. Maintenance is not included and is not available for this program.

FileMaker Volume License Agreement (VLA):

*Media £10.00

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