Filemaker 8.5

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• Reviewed by: Elsa Wenzel
• Edited by: Robert Vamosi
• Reviewed on: 07/10/2006

In Filemaker 8.5, the database maker incorporates a powerful, new set of features that broaden the scope of its abilities. We liked the last version, Filemaker 8, for spiffing up its interface and being able to export PDFs. Filemaker's latest upgrade allows you embed Web pages within database layouts.

Filemaker 8.5 is a user-friendly database application that will display and play anything your Web browser can: HTML, PDF pages, QuickTime videos, Java applets, and Flash animations, as well as SVG and PHP content. Therefore, you can view Google Maps, FedEx packages, Wikipedia entries, and more without leaving Filemaker to open a browser window. We haven't seen anything like this in competing software, such as Microsoft Access.

The browser capacity within Filemaker 8.5 opens the door to all sorts of creative uses. For instance, it lets you feed any data that gets updated frequently on a Web site, such as stock prices, directly into your database, live, without having to manually retype it. You could also drop an online map within a Filemaker layout to show the location within a contact's address field. Other Web data tie-ins could include currency exchange rates, contact details from a company's "about us" Web page, or whatever you dream up. If your database tracks, say, contacts in the news media, you could connect a particular reporter's latest stories with his or her listing in the database.

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  "Great New Features... Opens a lot of potential"

  by Sam5271 on July 10, 2006

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  "After all the hype - i was pretty let down by 8.5"

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