FileMaker 18
New Features That Will Make Development And Support Easier Than Ever
New Features That Will Make Development And Support Easier Than Ever
The FileMaker 18 Platform, the world’s leading Workplace Innovation Platform, includes great new features for developers to create, share, and integrate custom apps.
In 2019, the FileMaker 18 Platform was released with several new features and incremental improvements that will allow us to build and deploy FileMaker solutions with great new features that are faster and easier to use. Some of the changes that we’re excited about include:
A new user interface for more easily importing data.
Script steps for creating and editing files are now available.
Client-side script error logging is included in FileMaker 18.
A new While calculation function has been released.
New options for managing security for better protection.
Support for SMB and SMTP connections, including the ability to send HTML email
FileMaker Go adds new barcode formats and the ability to append to PDF files
FileMaker Server introduces some significant changes including a startup restoration feature
FileMaker Server and FileMaker Cloud for AWS have new support for monitoring via Zabbix
The FileMaker Data API has several new features including calls for duplicating records, executing scripts, and returning metadata information.
Our team at Skeleton Key has been exploring the new features and several of our developers have written blog posts with their insights:
For more details about the new features, please visit the What’s New page on FileMaker Inc.’s website.
FileMaker Pro 18 Advanced and FileMaker Go 18 clients will work with FileMaker Server 16, 17, and 18 as well as FileMaker Cloud for AWS 1.17 and 1.18.
You may want to consider installing the new software on one or two computers or devices and start testing your solution for compatibility. While we aren’t expecting any major compatibility issues with this release, we still recommend doing some testing before rolling out the new version to all of your systems and make sure your workstations meet the minimum system requirements. You’ll also want to make sure any third-party plug-ins or services are compatible with FileMaker 18.
When you’re ready, we’d love to work with you to deploy the latest version of the FileMaker Platform. We can help you identify opportunities to leverage the new features and create a plan to migrate your existing FileMaker systems – just give us a shout.