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FileMaker14, an Apple owned database application, launched a major update for iOS, Windows, and Mac software focusing on improving its response speed, Tuesday.
FileMake Pro, the company's flagship for Windows and Mac software, has acquired the Launch Center to organize solutions and turn them into dialog boxes, eschewing menus, and icon-based interface, File Maker announced. Included are 29 icons, but could custom design each one if the users want to achieve a personalized look.
A tool called Script Workspace has been incorporated to simplify common commands and automate its responses like invoice production during client meetings and stock inventory through unifying calculations, scripts, edits, and creation functions. It also has options like shortcuts, auto-complete, and favorites which are all designed in a manner that non-programmers could understand.
With the FileMaker Go 14 updates, it could now match iOS 8 better with the ability of displaying whole databases and videos in full screen. Its scripts could be utilized in locking layouts, either landscape or portrait, or toggling when the onscreen keyboard pops out. If users want to edit texts, they could now control the font style, font color, font size, and make it italicized, underlined or bold. Soon, Go 13 will not be offered in the App store, anymore.
The server has also been updated to allow database mobile access through WebDirect's hosting. WebDirect features an all-new mobile toolbar, though it is also on desktop browsers.
FileMaker Go is offered free for all iOS 8 devices, but FileMaker Pro is offered at a $329 price tag for new installs and $179 for upgrades, Computer World reported.
Pro Advanced, on the other hand, is $549 for new installs and $299 for upgrades while the Server is $1, 044 without upgrade paths. Server, Pro Advanced, and Pro could be acquired for $29, $15, and $9 respectively.
