Filemaker Pro 9 Advanced Upgrade

List Price: $299.00 Discount Price: $279.99

Features:

• All the features of FileMaker Pro 9 plus a suite of advanced development and customization tools
• Easily create databases to manage customers, clients, products, assets and more
• Design customized forms and applications that work the way you do, and modify them quickly using automatic updates or copy/paste
• Build more robust calculations and extend database capabilities with Custom Functions and the External Function Plug-in API
• Create standalone runtime solutions that do not require the FileMaker Pro application to be installed

Customer Reviews:

A Database Program that does it all and more... [Posted on 2007-08-12]
I used FileMaker since version 4 came out. Every version I have used since version 4 makes adding/deleting/changes, etc. not a job, but as simple as opening up FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced.

Importing pictures, movies or anything you wish to import is so simple I don't understand why beginners of Database programs just won't give FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced a try and see for themselves. In fact, it's like opening up a word processor program with a blank piece of paper waiting for your words to form on a blank piece of paper.


Don't take my word for it, give FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced a try.

Gold Standard [Posted on 2007-08-26]
I've never used FileMaker Pro until I started working at my current job. They started off with FM3 and I came in under FM6 then upgraded to FM7. We now got FM9 and wow, what a difference! I'm working on the conversion from FM7 to 9 (there is really no need to convert your prior databses, I'm just adding features) and already it's looking better! Conditional formatting is a lifesaver...I have certain fields go "RED" when they are missing something that the DB user needs to see. Then for some fields I have blue or red text to indicate active or some sort of inactive status.

Further is the existing tab control and web viewer. Beautiful things you can impliment. Since we use some mandatory 'webware', I can have my DB users access from within our database so they can do what they need to do there while viewing the record (instead of toggling back and forth).

Let's not forget the export to PDF feature has been advanced to allow multiple reports/PDFs to be put together. Perfect!

I'd love to do the SQL import/connection but it's not allowed, but I'm sure this is a super feature for anyone who wants to have one super easy to use database.

FileMaker Pro is simply awesome...I was able to get a database completed in under 24 hours that was taking the place I worked for over 3 years in planning and meetings. Although it could never be the final solution (since we max out at the time 5 concurrent users and we needed unlimited), it got the job done. That's the power of FM...allowing the USERs (not IT) to get their databases up and running and the flexibility to modify as needed without IT involvement. Now IT can always be involved when you want to get complex, etc. But the power to build your own database for any project is there (I've done it for several).

If you are using FM7 or below, this is a no brainer upgrade. For those with 8, it is a recommended upgrade. For those with 8.5 it's your call. The new features make it worth it and the upgrade pricing should meet everyone's budget.

I use the 'Advanced' features to create runtime solutions that I then put into a self installer (such as InnoSetup or InstallShield depending on how much budget you have). This way other users in my organization who don't have filemaker and don't need to 'network' like others in my group, can gain access to their own version of a database. In addition the ability to add 'tooltips' (little boxes of text over buttons, fields, text, etc) is a lifesaver. Think of it like a mini-help system for your users. You can even put in field or calculations into the tooltips. Finally you can create custom menus and optimize the files...things you can't do with the regular version of FM.

Do you just want to make databases and not care about the advanced features (such as saving your database to a 'runtime' so anyone can use it, optimizing the database file, tooltips, or custom menus)? Then you can purchase the regular version of FileMaker Pro and save some cash (in addition you can upgrade from a 'regular' version of FileMaker Pro to this Advanced version, you don't have to buy 9 then 9 Advanced) Filemaker Pro 9 or upgrade: Filemaker Pro 9 Upgrade

FMI gets hungry [Posted on 2007-12-13]
An upgrade from 8.5 to 9.0 at a cost of $290 is overpriced for the few features that have been added. But FMI needed to somehow fund the development of Bento so they've put the bite on their dedicated developers.

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