Re: FileMaker 8 is out!


How did you get FM8 advanced?



> I've been beta testing FM8 Advanced and Pro for the last three months and
> can say without any worry that it's wonderful. For a start it is stable,
> which is why I suspect the turnaround between 7 and 8 was so quick, 7 was
> so
> buggy there was too much to do in a point release. Anyway, the quick
> saving
> and emailing of PDFs and Excel files is great, as is the calendar. The
> built-in tab option is fucking wonderful, and with advanced you get
> Tooltips
> (pop-up rollovers previously available with the 24U SimpleHelp plugin) and
> Custom Menus (previously available with Menu Magic plugin).
>
> It will run files served by 7, and vice versa, but 8 files running on 7
> won't display the calendar, tooltips etc. If you make a layout using the
> inbuilt tabbing system and run it on 7 it will seriously screw up.
>
> And the best thing: You can copy and paste fields! Wonderful, wonderful
> thing. If you need a field or many fields in lots of tables for
> relationships or just want to move old fields to a new database, you can
> just select the fields you want to move, Ctrl (or Cmd) + V, move to the
> other table, and Ctrl + V, and there they all are, with all definitions
> still in tact. And an old file made in 7 will work too, just open it in 8
> and you can move all the fields across to a new file.
>
> It is ludicrous that they always release the client software before server
> (should be out in about 40 days if memory serves), and possibly the most
> important change to the whole of FM is that FM8 Mobile will sync with
> Server, which means it now actually has a use! It gives us great
> opportunity
> to expand our software so people can take their databases with them
> without
> it being a completely separate DB from the one at their offices or
> whatever.
> I'm just now waiting impatiently for them to send me my copies :-)
>
> The move from 6 to 7 should have been the most important for FM, but truth
> is 7 just didn't work like it was supposed to. 8 does, and this is a
> seriously big jump, although I can't help feeling that 7 should have done
> all this stuff in the first place.
>
>
>
> Zo
>
>
> PS Sorry if this is written in some alien language, I had two hours sleep
> last night and looking over that I think my grammar's way off for most of
> it
> but I'm too tired to concentrate!
>


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