18 Facts About FileMaker Pro

1.

FileMaker Pro Go, the mobile app, was released for iOS devices in July 2010.

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2.

FileMaker Pro Server allows centralized hosting of apps which can be used by clients running the desktop or mobile apps.

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3.

Microsoft had introduced its own database application, Microsoft File, shortly before FileMaker Pro, but was outsold by FileMaker Pro and therefore Microsoft File was discontinued.

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4.

Up to this point FileMaker Pro had no real relational capabilities; it was limited to automatically looking up and importing values from other files.

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5.

In 2005 FileMaker Inc announced the FileMaker 8 product family, which offered the developer an expanded feature set.

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6.

FileMaker Pro 9, released on July 10,2007, introduced a quick-start screen, conditional formatting, fluid layout auto-resizing, hyperlinked pointers into databases, and external SQL links.

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7.

FileMaker Pro 11, released on March 9,2010, introduced charting, which was further streamlined in FileMaker Pro 12, released April 4,2012.

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8.

FileMaker Pro Go 11 and FileMaker Pro Go 12 for iPhone and iPad allow only the creation, modification, and deletion of records on these handheld devices.

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9.

In late 2016, FileMaker Pro began annually publicizing a software roadmap of future features they are working on as well as identifying features they are moving away from or may deprecate in the near future.

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10.

FileMaker Pro Inc had always had a hard time describing what FileMaker Pro software is because it is more than just a database; it includes the user interface, security, rapid application development tools, etc.

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11.

In 2016, FileMaker Pro Cloud was introduced, including a Linux server, which was offered exclusively through the Amazon Marketplace.

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12.

FileMaker Pro is available in worldwide English, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

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13.

Central European version FileMaker Pro includes English, Russian, Polish, Czech and Turkish interfaces.

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14.

FileMaker Pro 13 introduced a useful script that more deeply queries container field document metadata.

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15.

FileMaker Pro Dynamic Markup Language or FDML was a markup language used in the earlier versions of FileMaker Pro introduced in 1998.

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16.

Since version 9, FileMaker Pro has included the ability to connect to a number of SQL databases without resorting to using SQL, including MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle.

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17.

FileMaker Pro 12 introduced a new function, ExecuteSQL, which allows the user to perform an SQL query against the FileMaker Pro database to retrieve data, but does not allow data modification or deletion, or schema changes.

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18.

FileMaker 19 for Linux and FileMaker Cloud provide a OData gateway, allowing JSON and XML output.

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