8 FileMaker Pro Advanced Development Guide
New features in FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced
FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced includes the following new features and
improvements. For a complete listing of new features introduced in
FileMaker Pro
8, see the FileMaker Pro User’s Guide or Help.
Schema sharing features
Customizing features
Debugging and troubleshooting features
Note If your solution uses third-party plug-ins, contact your plug-in
providers to confirm that their plug-ins work with FileMaker 8
products. The External Function Plug-in is backward-compatible, but
a plug-in may rely on features that have changed from previous
versions.
Using the FileMaker Pro Advanced
documentation
This Development Guide is one component in a comprehensive
documentation suite provided with FileMaker
Pro Advanced. Some of
the documents are provided in print and in portable document format
(PDF), while others are available in PDF only. FileMaker Pro
Advanced also includes an online Help system to provide details on
FileMaker Pro features.
This guide includes information about features that are available with
FileMaker Pro Advanced. It assumes that you are familiar with
FileMaker
Pro or FileMaker Pro Advanced, and that you have created
a database solution that you want to work on using the FileMaker
Pro
Advanced features. If you are new to the FileMaker family, start with
the
FileMaker Pro User’s Guide.
Note Throughout the documentation, when a feature or procedure is
specific to a particular platform, you see instructions and illustrations
that are also specific to that platform. For features or procedures that
are similar on both platforms, you may see illustrations for either
Windows or the Mac OS.
For more information on this feature See
Copying and importing tables across files or
within the same file
“Copying or importing tables
into a file” on page 13
Copying scripts, script steps, or fields “Copying scripts, script steps,
or fields” on page 12
For more information on this feature See
Adding tooltips “Adding tooltips to layout
objects” on page 11
Creating custom menus “Customizing menus” on
page 21
For more information on this feature See
Monitoring fields, variables, and calculations
using the Data Viewer
“Monitoring fields, variables,
and calculations” on page 57
Viewing sub-scripts as you step through
scripts
“Viewing sub-scripts” on
page 56
Disabling script steps “Disabling script steps” on
page 58
Enhanced Database Design Report See the Database Design
Report XML Output Grammar
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