Instead of secondary dialog boxes, most options are entered from a popover right in the Edit Script pane.
You can also choose steps’ option with the keyboard - for the most part. Most interactions with the workspace can be issued through the keyboard, instead of the mouse. All the functions of two dialog boxes have been combined into the new workspace and the menus. Script WorkspaceįileMaker 14’s new Script Workspace is long-awaited upgrade to script writing. But by far, the biggest change, and the one that will inspire the most love-and maybe the most initial frustration-is the ground-up redesign of the old-school Edit Scripts window. So you can expect the usual influx of new functions (like a suite that lets you control media playback in container fields), and improvements in existing features. Features to Make Your Developer’s Heart SingĪs with any upgrade, many features are improvements to old standbys. Neither of these are glamorous features, but they’re the kind of trust-building upgrades a mature software platform has to provide in the competitive world of database apps.
Plus, the new Standby Server feature lets you create a second server that can nearly seamlessly take over in case your primary server fails. We’ll see some real world figures drifting in over the next few days and weeks, but before release some folks were reporting a 2-3x speed increase in some operations. So the great gift to end users is the fine-tuning of FileMaker Server for increased performance. It was amazing how well it worked, but all those features came at a cost to performance that some users found frustrating. FileMaker’s engineering team always knew that FMP 13’s WebDirect technology was a 1.0 release. That’s not to say that end users don’t benefit. But FileMaker Pro 14 may be the first upgrade that has more to delight developers’ hearts more than end users’.įileMaker 14: Performance, Performance, Performance So it makes sense that most upgrades have focused on features that are readily apparent to end users. Its legendary ease-of-use is aimed at letting people gather and manage their data without needing to understand geeky topics. FileMaker has always had a special place in the world of software.
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