24 Facts About FileMaker

FileMaker is a cross-platform relational database application from Claris International, a subsidiary of Apple Inc It integrates a database engine with a graphical user interface and security features, allowing users to modify a database by dragging new elements into layouts, screens, or forms.

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

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

FileMaker began as an MS-DOS-based computer program named Nutshell – developed by Nashoba Systems of Concord, Massachusetts, in the early 1980s.

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

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

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

FileMaker 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.

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

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

FileMaker Go 12 offers multitasking, improved media integration, export of data to multiple formats and enhanced container fields.

FileMaker Go 13, the parallel iPad–iPhone product, has now become a single client for both devices, and the Server Admin tool now runs in HTML5, no longer requiring a Java app.

In late 2016, FileMaker 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.

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

FileMaker Inc initiated a new marketing program at their annual developers conference in August 2018 to address its poor description categories: "Workplace Innovation Platform".

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

In November 2019, FileMaker Cloud was reintroduced as a software as a service product offered directly from Claris for FileMaker Pro 18.

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

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

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

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

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

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

FileMaker 16 provides integrations via cURL, JSON, REST-based FileMaker Data API support.