Introduction / New FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced Features pt. 2
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Ok. So let's move on here. The Data Viewer has also been enhanced. So if we pull up the Data Viewer, you notice it has two tabs. Ok. Well, what does this extra tab do? You had the Watch tab before where you can add in all the stuff you wanted. You can add in any kind of expression you want here but the current is really the neat thing that has been added. Let's watch what it does because it's better just to show it happening. And so we'll pull up the Script Debugger, both of these, than I'm going to go into ScriptMaker and perform the script again; the insert media. And you notice right away what happens here. I didn't have to put anything in here. The current lists all of the fields and the variables that are inside that script. So you don't have to add them into the watch. I spent so much time adding them in here everything time I wanted to debug a script. This makes so much sense that there's a field or a script variable in here automatically put in there so you can see it; so you don't have to type all that stuff in. So I really, really love this feature. So we'll cancel that right there. Now the Data Viewer also authenticates for sufficient privileges so that it's really secure at this point. The Database Design Report or DDR has also been updated. And basically to include all the new FileMaker 9 features such as: External SQL Tables, the supplemental fields go along with that; Script Groups, Default Tab and Width Properties, Conditional Formatting, Auto-Resize and Layout Objects, new Web Viewer options, the Pen PDF Script option and all the new calculation functions. It's important for it to include all that so when you make a report you can see all this new information in it. And now we have a link to the PHP Assistant. You'll see it under the Tools Menu and you'll notice that it's dimmed and that's because I'm not running a FileMaker 9 solution that's hosted on FileMaker Server 9. If I was then I would have access to this and I could choose this. It would launch the PHP Assistant to help me custom web publish with PHP. In addition, along with FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced you have a new extended privilege, which you can see under Manage; and then we want to go into Accounts and Privileges; and then move into Extended Privileges and you'll see the FM PHP Extended Privilege. Now you need this so that people can access a solution from a web browser using the PHP. If you don't have this option set to every person that gets access to it, well then they won't be able to access it through the web, through PHP. This is the same as FMAP, which allows them to access it over the network, a really good way to limit how people can go ahead and access your solution. Maybe they only want to access through the network; the local area network. Well, give them access through this extended privilege. So if you don't give them access FM PHP to their account, to their privilege set, well then they just wont be able to have access. So this is a necessary addition once they added the ability to do PHP inside of FileMaker. So we'll discard all those changes and that's about it. There's not a ton of new features. In fact there's really no new features except for this PHP Assistant option in FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced. All of them are simply enhancements to the existing feature set.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | FileMaker Pro 9: Beginner |
| Author: | John Mark Osborne |
| SKU: | 33783 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-95-X |
| Release Date: | 2007-07-26 |
| Duration: | 12.5 hrs / 145 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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