Archived Wants & Wishes

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as they stand now it's not possible to use Spelling script steps effectively within loops or for non-interactive use. I request that the Spelling script steps be expanded so that they can run unattended, for example to allow a batch of records (either fields within record or entire record) to be spell-checked without user intervention, and flagged on a per-record basis for later review. Along similar lines, it'd be nice to have a clean-up script that uses a custom dictionary to go through a set of records and fix commonly-misspelled terms, for example certain proprietary names, names of chemicals, etc. Without getting too specif…

The list of fonts in the users FileMaker Font list or the browsers available fonts for use in specifying a font and testing to see if a specified font is installed.

(Semi-rant) I find the development environment of FileMaker very linear - and it's not the way some people (including myself) work. I'm restricted to editing(and sometimes looking at) one thing at a time, with a large click-path required to get from one place to another. For example, if I'm editing a Custom Function, I have to relinquish control of the Data Viewer with a click route of 1 to test any changes, and 4 to get back to my function. I value my physical health and like to type and use the mouse without a searing pain down my arm - the ability to map shortcuts to any menu item and have multiple instances of and/or non-modal editor windows would be welcome…

Has anyone noticed this page where you can be notified about future plans for linking FM and MySQL? http://www.filemakertrial.com/mysql/ Wouldn't it be cool if the integration were as simple as adding MySQL tables as TOs right onto the relationship graph?

i hope fmi make a auto calendar size change when field size is changing. ex) in a touch screen , i make a big field for user and calendar is still small and hard to choose the date + nav button. also same situation , portal scroll bar is too narrow too. would be nice if it can be adjustable in width. regards, mike kim

In FileMaker 8 Tabs where introduced with very poor support for navigation. We now know that this was because objects was not far behind. So that got me thinking is there anything new in 8.5 that has no obvious application yet. 1. Window height and width resizing on the fly. 2. Gathering info on objects contained within other objects. I think this may point to the possibility that version 9 will finally include objects resizing on the fly to the size of the window they are in... this would also make the object namer very well placed on the object info window (with the dimensions) What do you think? Anything else you think points to the future?

You know what would really help... the simple things... Like color coding the calculations, i.e. to show which open bracket relates to which close bracket, or which function relates to what set of brackets and expressions (like what excel does when your entering the calc). .. and then also proper formatting, i.e. with a case statement embedded in a let statement... should indent... but it doesn't, sigh. e.g. [color:red]Let([x = y]; .....[color:green]Case( [color:purple](x = "y" or p=z[color:purple]) and f=0 ; "z" ; p [color:green]) [color:red]) The simple things would be nice, and useful (but switchable on and off).

It'd be great if FMP allowed sections (let's say a section of If->End If) to be collapsed and expanded like folders in the Finder, with a little triangle. It'd make it much easier to scan through a script.

I'd like to be able to finish setting up and testing printing scripts (switching between printers, etc.) without being on the client computer. I don't currently have a printer set up on my development machine, so all I see is the "you must have a printer set up to proceed" error. It would be fantastic if there was a way to emulate printers using the drivers pre-installed on most machines.

Even though visualising relationships is a [color:blue]good thing, the way it's implemented is (very) poor (in my opinion). Not at all user-friendly for bigger databases. It's messy, the notes added to 8 are not really helpfull, they just take up more space. What I suggest: 1) A text view of the relationships in a list. Similar to the 'add relationship' button but then to look for a relationship. With the possibility to edit or delete a specific relationship while browsing this list. Oh, that would be sooooo helpfull instead of trying to find a relationship among all tables. 2) The possibility to create several relationship 'layouts' that you can n…

It would be nice if there were a command that would shrink a single-line field (and/or its label) to its minimum width before it causes the text within to line feed. This would make it a little easier to compose a layout that has many fields.

able to adjust height of tab + able to assign the button to it. how many times i had to give up using tabs because i couldn't assign a script to it. regards, mike kim

i hope fmi make something like a update-ginie which was a plug in developed by hot-something. probably in a fmp 9.0 advanced version regards, mike kim

VALUE LIST TEXT FORMATTING Picking Valuelist with underline POP-UP MENU examples: selection1 / selection1b selection2 selection3 / selection3b something like that.. More power !!!

It seems that I too often need to duplicate a layout simply to have a version with a different behavior on one or more fields. And duplicate layouts are expensive to maintain. In the simplest case, it would be nice if I could control whether a field is enabled in browse mode or not.

It would be great if development effort could be put into reducing the processor overhead when FMP is in the background. Even when there are no databases open in it it still takes 2.5% of my powerbook 1.67 processor. If it were less of a hog I would leave it open all the time.

I have embedded this hyperlink in an existing web page on our site to open a FileMaker database via IWP: "http://76.97.242.101/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=my+database&-loadframes" This works perfectly. Needed FM Feature: I need a way to include a parameter in this hyperlink that I can retrieve from the script that is executed automatically when the database is opened? Maybe: "http://76.97.242.101/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db...ds&-loadframes&-parm=xyz123" And a new function: Get( URLParameter ) My goal is to be able to embed a hyperlink in an email message that will automatically display a different layout and/or record from the database. Of c…

regarding import path , it would be nice if i can use a field value as a import path instead of must specify file path by add file dialog box. it involves with picture , save as excel , pdf , even tables import. regards, mike

It is so nice that FileMaker displays calculations when viewing the Define Database Fields tab. But it doesn't display the calculations for the Auto-Enter fields. It would be wonderful if it did! I am constantly having to open the Options to see what is there. :smirk:

i hope fmi add resume script step which i can start resume from beginning of the script. see there is a resume script step if you create a button and you try ro assign the script step to it. but if you use new window + pause , then you can exit it only by that continue(resume) button. so if i want to run other script (during the pause) and resume to be out of that new window, i can't do it. hope thay make a resume script step which i can use it from middile of the script. regards , mike

i wish in next filemaker version FMI do something about the flickering screen. it looks very unstable and cheap. all window side applications don't have this problem and i don't know why filemaker can't do much about this. mike

I performed a Recovery on (a copy of my file). It had 10 ghost records and I saved as compacted clone first; didn't help. I've tried everything. This file has never crashed. But that's not why I'm posting. 8.0v3 clients, Windows 2003, FMS 8.0v4. After the Recover, FM provided this summary: ____ bytes were salvaged 0 whole records were skipped 0 field values were skipped 1 lost field definition were rebuilt I want to know where the lost field definition is! I searched my entire hard drive and find no log which provides detail about what FM found. It would be so easy for FM to give us this information; after all, it knows as it skips a record or fi…

Occassionally I just want to add records that are in one source (excel sheet) but not yet in a FileMaker database. You can do that using 'update matching records in found set' and the 'add remaining data as new records'. However, you still have to choose a second field to actually update or it will complain "No fields were selected for import.". This seems like an odd restriction for FileMaker Inc. to build in. Sometimes I want to import only the ID fields that don't currently exist. However, I'm forced to import/update an additional field to get by the warning. This isn't the end of the world of course but just an odd thing for them to go out of their w…

Faund this on: http://news.softpedia.com/news/FileMaker-9-Is-On-Its-Way-45403.shtml Ino

It would really help to be able to evaluate expressions directly within labels like you can do in access. It would save a lot of unecessary field creation. The simplest example: =Get(RecordNumber) & " of " & Get(FoundCount)

Any updates expected for MacWorld San Francisco? Seems like a long time since 8.5v1 was released... :D

I cant put global field in a relation coz it can not be index ...why I cant index a global? I know, its stupid but it is request for the relation...so why untill in v.8 nobody understand it?

...so we can use a frame for the unique menu, and a frame for the body

like Javascript: - onMouseOver - onClick - onDblClick - onFocus when an event happens it launch a script.... it exists in a plugin...but I hate plugin...

I have been loving FM Server's ability to apply database changes while the file is being shared. I'm a lazy administrator so I love being able to do stuff during regular hours. However, invariably I have a user that has a record locked. No biggie you think, just wait a few minutes and they'll move on. Not in my case, we have people that have it open and a record locked but then they minimize FileMaker or walk away to a meeting. No manner of notification or messages are going to work. It would be really nice to somehow tie in the disconnect to the "Waiting to Commit Changes" bit.

I know that most likely I could change this need with a different approach to my solutions. However, I find that at least with my current knowledge I end up with a lot of very short and simple scripts. For example changing a layout and then just setting a global variable. I think it would be nice to be able to tag at least two or three steps to a button. Almost like a small version of scriptmaker built into the button setup dialog. You would obviously have to repeat some of the scripts, but it would drastically cut down on the number of scripts, and having to think of naming conventions for all of them. What do you think??

This really needs to be addressed. Coming from a Server Advanced perspective, record creation is extremely slow. (Like around 20-30 records per second) on our xServe clusternode / xRAID configuration. The unusual thing is that if you setup your records as a text file, then import it from a filemaker client application, we get performance of almost 1,000 records per second. BUT, with Server Advanced 8 there is no web context for importing files, like there was under FM Pro Unlimited. Why does individual record creation take so long? Layton

I would like "Go To Script Line" in script maker Then i could set the script line number as the script parameter. Go To Script Line [Get ( ScriptParameter ) ] This would allow more dynamic scripts for custom menus without the need for If statements Example: New Record= Script Parameter = Get (LayoutNumber)*2+1 Allow User Abort [off] Go To Script Line [Get ( ScriptParameter ) ] Perform Script [New Contact] //Layout 1 Exit Script Perform Script [New Invoice] //Layout 2 Exit Script Perform Script [New Task] //Layout 3 Exit Script

Okay, so a few days early, but here are the things I have been wishing for lately that I want for christmas. It is a lot, but they all seem pretty achievable in the current structure and would be remarkably helpful. Also, I have been a good boy this year... SCRIPTS create/delete/edit table/TO/field/relationship Pretty straight forward - script automation of define fields. Would be a tremendous help towards designing flexible and re-purposeable solutions. Probably the most difficult of my wants. LAYOUT View 'SampleData' in layout-field select mode (displays data from the first record in place of field names when you are selecting which fields to dis…

This is more of a bug report / question to see if anyone else gets this. When referencing TO's from another file the list is sorted in terms of creation order rather than the order i specified in the other file... This is annoying as hell, does anyone else have this issue?

Currently if you only show the second value you cannot sort by the first value. There are times when I would like to show only the second field yet sort by the first. Example: let's say that I'm showing a list of names with the first name first and last name last but wish to sort by their last names.

1) Drag and drop into container fields. (Probibly been said before?) It would be even nicer to have some sort of optional filtering for drag and drop into container fields. I.E. allow only .pdf files & only link to them. Or, only image files and absorb them into the data file. Etc. 2) "Set context" script step. Or a default, always avalible, layout for each table to set context with. I find keeping track of script context gives more troubles that anything else building databases. -jim lee

Becomming an intermediate FM Developer this is what I would like to see... Layout Grouping Group Layouts into folders and sub folders for easier navigation and general tidiness. Not dissimilar to Photoshop's Layers and Layer Grouping. Intelligent Layout & Script Searching I start typing and it filters the layout list down to layers containing what I am typing. The Same for script searching, IMO this is a very key feature thats around in many apps for years, like spotlight's search functions. Global Script control The ability to globally switch a script off or on without having to comment out the script. //this isn't a major thing just more o…

I am not sure whether this is the best subject to ask my question? A user just asked me why it is possible to use the zoom controls in 25% steps when zooming out, and only 50% steps when zooming in. I had no idea but I know it is not possible. Now, customised zooming would definitely be on my list of future features, but in the meantime: is there any tool out there, a plug-in of some kind, that could help me with that?

This should be very easy for them to implement. They already have the attributes being stored for the layout objects. I would love to be able to reposition objects on the layout via scripting.

It is wonderful that FM gave us script-steps which perform multiple duty - it SOUNDS like such an efficient technique. There are several: Delete Record/Request, Add Record/Request ... When in Browse, Delete Record/Request deletes the active record and while in Find it deletes the active Find Request. Nifty, huh? Nope. If I want to attach Delete Record/Request to a button so User can delete a Find Request but NOT delete a record, I currently MUST create a script, something like: If [ Get ( WindowMode ) ] Delete Record/Request End If ... because FM will not allow me to use just ONE of the options! It would be so simple to put two checkbox toggles on the b…

Oh there are so many things I can say. But lets just keep it simple. How about alowing Container fields to FM Mobile. Just being able to view container fields would open up many more uses for mobile. Use it as a picture viewer, or to show inventory images, or to view word documents (using Documents to go) Jerry

I want to get Index from only found records. Can I do?

It would be nice if send mail can do multiple attachments.

Hi, As I sit here trying to design a complex tabbed interface using buttons because I can't use the really neat tab tool to create a tab with a list view layout, I really wish I could have that! It would save me, oh, perhaps two full days of development time! I'll expect to see your report on my desk in the morning... Thank you!! Mac Hammer

Hi All, Just a simple question: Does anybody have implement the full ERP project by utilizing FileMaker? If so, what function it is and how is the degree of complexity? I really appreciate for your feedback. HHo

Some Drop-down lists/Pop-up menus I've used in web interfaces set the initial selection to the middle of the list, instead of the first value, resulting in less scrolling overall for lists without weighting, e.g., a list of states/provinces, etc. This would be a nice option in FM, even if scripting can do it, and even in addition to type-ahead. Ken

Shouldn't the header (buttons) in "View as Table" be scriptable?That would make a whole lot of sense.

From memory, apart from changing where scripts are named, the ScriptMaker itself has barely changed throughout the last few FileMaker releases, but there are a few things I think could be added to make it even easier to use. Collapsable Script Categories Allowing all navigation scripts for example to be grouped together, also collapsable so that u could see all the categories and easily find the script required. Searching Scripts Some of the databases I work with have hundreds of scripts and finding a paticular one can be a nightmare, a simple textbox with find as you type could easily narrow down search from minutes to seconds. Maybe even being able to se…

For years I have used FileMaker as a Fat Client and/or Thin Client of larger RDBMS systems such as Oracle, DB2, MS Sequel and mySQL. Unfortunately every implementation of such a FMPro client requires a fair amount of ODBC or JDBC connectivity configuration. FMPro affords us all a native platform for Desktop and Workgroup solutions. With the use of third party plug-ins and drivers, it makes an excellent Enterprise client solutions. Nothing would make me more excited than being in one of those meetings where the clients IT person across the table does that 'eye rolling, leg lifting' routine everytime you mention FileMaker. To be able to simply request from that…

Wouldnt if be great to have the ability to move fields from one table to another but have all scripts and layouts kept intact (like when you rename a field).

It's so easy it should be standard, but now I'm stuck writing my own plugin.

A graphics program I routinely work with has a nice feature that I think would be great to have in FileMakers layout mode. Arrow Key - Moves object by 1 pixel Shift + Arrow Key - Moves object by 2 pixels Ctrl + Arrow Key - Moves object by 5 pixels It would be nice to be able to predefine specified increments. Also being able to select Pixel as the default type in the Set Rulers pop-up is long overdue IMO.

Pretty self explainatory A portal or portals that can be placed on a layout allowing you to view another layout from the same Table (or if possible another table) Layout portal can be called on from a calculation (Layout Number or Name) or Layout portal can be treated in much the same way as the webviewer as an object. Result: Dynamic Layouts, load specific field Layouts based on calculations entered on the main Layout. Create several headers for a letter and load it as per user request. This could also allow developers to let users have access to the header and Footer modification layout to play with but not the one with the complex sliding obj…

drop-down menus that look like the drop down menus of the system and theme, likewise with scrollbars, buttons, etc.

Heres an improvement I would like very much, especially used in a runtime solutions. Pop up windows open and current window stays maximised, hate how file maker resizes underlying windows.

I would like to see the ability to store a username and password with a file reference. We have a few solutions where we pull data out of a customers solution and instead of having to have them put all of the username and passwords of our users in their system, one general user, that we then store with the file reference would make life on both sides monumentally easier.

I hate that when I go into specify button, there is no way to figure out what is the current setting, especially if there are multiple selections. For example, say I want to go to a layout and maximize the window. For that I have to highlight both options and hope it applies because once you click on the second action, the highlight switches. Frustrating!

Well, here's another: I wish I could be able to distinguish the active field by some type of highlight. I asked this question in a board and what I got was that I should put a color box behind my fields. But all my layouts are of white background and I hate that I need to create a layout for each layout with a color box just so that I can see where I am entering data. Not goinging to go there. That'd be a nightmare everytime I had an adjustment to a layout.

OK last one I promise. It would be great if you could place the rolodex and especially the slider beneath it onto a layout. I know there are many ways of re-creating the functionality of this area but none have done the slider with the full functionality that I have seen. Users seem to like this feature but it annoys me that so much screen real-estate is lost just for the slider.

The new web viewer function Rock, love that now I can grab any data from web and stored them in Filemaker. I think it would be wonderful if we can have a call script function in field so script can be called either before record is commited or after it is commited.

I'm not sure if I'm just not seeing something here but I'm trying to get a dashed line in a layout. The layout has a section the customer will cut out and return. I've created a line, I've given it a pen pattern and that looks fine. Until you bump up the line width beyond hairline. Then it just looks like a series of vertical lines. While obviously this isn't particularly serious I'm thinking that I must be missing something. Surely FM has a good way of making a dashed or hatched line. I've attached an image to show what I mean.

It would be really powerful to be able to dynamically define the field in which you want to set a value. I.E Set Field (script parameter) or (Variable). At the moment the only option is to hard code the field that you want to set a value in although you can dynamically choose what value to set.

I am really getting into this wish list stuff now. How about Event driven scripting, people have been asking for this for ever, eventually they've got to do it. Buttons/Radio Buttons etc that use the system graphics. Would save lots of time. The ability to use variables in relationships would rock. There, got it off my chest, I will look forward to all these in Version 9, or 10, or 11 .........

Internally, FM keeps track of records, fields, layouts, scripts, etc. with ID numbers. You can find out what they are with various functions like get(RecordID) to get the ID for a single record, and LayoutIDs(filename) to get a list of all the layout IDs in a file. It would be great if: 1) you could get the ID for an individual field or layout the way you can for a record, not just a list of all of them. 2) you could navigate to a layout or field based on its ID rather than its name or a number that refers to its position. I've needed this functionality for a series of scripts I use to save find requests. A user can -perform a find and then save the par…

1: Be able to control the time a tooltip is displayed. Also be able to use Text Formatting with Tooltips. 2: Define the default tab in the Tab Control Widget. 3: In the Relationships Graph, be able to group and lock a bunch of relationships along with the Note. Also, color the relationship lines the same color as the relationship for easier tracing. 4: Add another field control called 'Keypad' so we can popup a keypad next to numeric fields for data entry. 5: Attach scripts to Tabs so that we can control navigation, validation, etc. Steve

To be able to have a field hold like a whole document with images and text.

Oh to be able to, based on the value of a field or script variable, direct a script in another file. Just as you can hard code a file target and script target in the perform script step, could you not supply these targets dynamically with field or variable information.

It doesn't seem like it would be hard to add a solution option of copying the accts & priv from the primary file to all the rest while using the developer utility.

If they give us the ability to import tables......it would even better if we can select either to import the tables' scipt, layouts, valuelist, custom function and the realtionship/table occurence. It is properly a big wish! :-)

Are there any graphics plugin for Filemaker 8, perhaps like the paint module in Appleworks?

Please, oh please FileMaker ... increase the number of letters when defining boolean to text (through field format number options). 7 letters? Not only would it help if this were increased - you wouldn't believe how many more calcs I could convert - but it would be nice if this popped up a calculaton box as well. After all, even Tool Tips allows calcs on them. LaRetta :wink2:

As it stands FM8's new Auto Complete only works on value lists that contain only one field. If you have a value lists that uses a second field you cannot use this feature. I find this rather unfortunate because in my opinion auto complete is most useful when you are dealing with very large value lists. These large value lists are the ones that most often represent an object from another table (ex. list of authors). In these cases I am constantly using a numerical ID to relate the tables and only show the textual data (ex. author's name) in the value list and layout. Bryan

How about a beep function on the right side (calculation) of s SetField? It would be useful instead of always using a validation message...you could beep as a warning. Also, it would be nice to have other sounds. Steve

That would be nice

Sure would be nice to have the ability to create a stand-alone runtime solution in Filemaker Advanced with an exe extension that would run on Windows XP, SP2. Seems it doesn't work now unless the person already has Filemaker installed. Not kewl, not kewl.

It would be very useful if some script steps could be set to execute in the context of the server, not the client. In particular, I'm thinking about script steps such as: Send Email Save as PDF Import/Export DoAppleScript Shell Script It would be even more useful if FMServer could schedule a FileMaker script to execute on a schedule. With these two features, it would be possible to have a server setup be a lot more powerful, e.g. a script could be run on the server every night to print a bunch of reports to PDFS, and move them to a webserver directory. Or, a user could trigger an action which would send an email, from the server's email a…

The ability to have value lists show display one field while storing the value of another is a huge improvement. However, it still in my opinion lacks the functionality needed to be fully useful. I’ve always been of the mind that no key should ever be seen by any user, and that users should never be allowed to type in any value that will be used to form a relationship. Drop down lists that use value lists with the second field option should display values from the second field once a selection has been made. You should also be able to limit the selection to values in the list (without having to use field validation). In other words that should function more like HTML…

I think it would be pretty handy to be able to make an entry directly to the Windows Event Log (application tab) from within Filemaker. I realize the the Filemaker application by itself is capable of this but I think it could be useful if us as FM developers could log events concerning the applications that we have developed too. I don't know if there is a Mac equivalent. I assume so. Maybe this is already possible on Macs. This could probably be done today if one used VBScript but that is a lot more horsing around than I normally want to do.

I know this is really out there, but I would love to have the ability to have FileMaker connect in with Active Directory for use as a clients table. It's a pain to have to maintain a clients table in FileMaker when all the clients that are in this table are already in an Active Directory OU.

An in built word processor that lets the user type their own documents and input merge fields without giving access to layouts. Developer selects which merge fields are available and user selects from a list by double clicking. It should be able to handle overspill of information into following pages just like a normal word processor and the doc saved for later use.

The consensus in the container forum is that if a container is filled by reference or via a calculation the file (and resulting path) must be in a directory that is shared and mapped/mounted on every client machine. What this says to me is that the client is responsible for fetching and displaying the file; not the server. That explains why you need it mapped/mounted locally and why we need to concern ourselves with the client's OS when calculating the path. If the above is all true then I would want/wish that the server could resolve, fetch, and display containers (paths) filled by reference or via scripts. This would solve the issue where those …

I know they had problems licensing pdfs for runtime via adobe, how about somthing based on ghostscript , cross platform , open source ps to pdf capabilites

I would like to have non-ugly popup menu's please. Whats up with the shadows? They make my otherwise clean layouts look messy and i have to revert to using pop-up lists with restrictions on validation... It's a pain! Extra inbuilt onEvent support would be extremely useful aswell . Finally just a bit of whinge here, but why is ther e no such thing as FM Lite? A cheaper version of filemaker that can only run FM solutions, not requiring the ability to edit layouts / scripts / tables etc. I mean really...I feel im being ripped off, though my users feel the full force here, my point stands.. why are they paying for features they'll never use? ~Genx

Hi, I would like to have 1. more events such as onclick of option button (onclick), lostfocus of the field (LostFocus), selection of item from value list (OnSelection), KeyPress etx 2. More function library for handling dates such as dateDifference, DateAdd, NextMonth Regards, Padmaja

Wouldn't it be dreamy? Even GetIndex(field) would be cool. Returns as a value list... -Raz

Allow us to attach a script to tab in version 8! I Really want that one! Stu

Better ways to generate emails from IWP. Better ability to pass parameters directly to the web publishing engine w/o pop-up windows and openURL scripts step. How about a whole series of script steps that are IWP compatible for passing info to WPE?

field based triggers (like leave modified field trigger) layout trigger (leave modified layout (window) trigger) true embedded or stored procedures, trigger, event and/or time driven

I would dearly love the ability to freely-rotate an object, specifically a field, to any orientation I choose. I appreciate that FMP can rotate items in 1/4 increments, but wish I could rotate items at variable intervals to match differing layouts. George

I developed my new Web site, www.transpowercorp.com, using FileMaker Developer 7. It's being hosted on FileMaker 8 Server using IWP. Some notes: 1. Version 7 doesn't display scroll bars properly in IWP, whereas version 8 does. There should be a patch created for this problem in 7. 2. Version 7 does correctly enter the database when Guest is enabled, has IWP permissions, and is set in File Options. Version 8 does not do so. This needs to be corrected pronto! It's unfair for a Web surfer to have to login (or choose Guest) to enter a public site hosted through IWP. 3. Neither version correctly exits IWP upon execution of the script step Exit Applicati…

I personally am quite impressed with what FMI has done with IWP. I've always wanted the ability to access and display dynamic info from my db's via a browser w/o middleware. To me the biggest limitation is the lack of email capabilities w/ IWP and basically one pretty limited script step (open URL) to access CWP functionality. I really hope a developer comes up w/ a FMSA plug-in soon, or FMI does so that enables full funtioning emailing to be performed via IWP. I read how Microsoft is changing their biz model to be more web based (ala Google) as opposed to application based, as it allows Msoft to be more nimble in their development of software. I think FMI can learn somet…

I want to be able to start a script on navigating out of a field, and as "IT_boy" suggested in his subject Layout Scripts": on entering and leaving a layout. :dreaming:

This has been on my list for a long time. For a graphically oriented program to have LIMITED shapes available for 'buttons' is dumb. Sorry, Filemaker, you could have a really awesome layout delivery if buttons took on the shape of the graphic. Just give us a file type to use and let us manage it, already. Done with the rant.

One of the many things I would love to see in FM is the ability to sort a portal right at the portal level, not via monkeying with my relationships. As it stands, filtering portals in 1-M or M-M relationships involves adding fields and/or calculations. This simply ends up in larger databases with more calculating to do (ie: bloat). Maybe I'm just being a purist here, but I like to relate my tables and then have the freedom to easily format and filter the results as I please as in any SQL based RDBMS. There are tons of posts on here related to portal filtering so it is certainly a highly demanded functionality. However the process is usually so complicated that …

I bought FM 8 Advanced, and I bought the English version, although I am Dutch, and have a Dutch OSX. I want FM to be in English as I am used to the English commands, script steps and all that and the 'world of information' on the web around FM is in English. (Also my manual on paper is english...) After installing, FM8 showed up in English, as I recall, but after running the updater to version 8.0.v2, FM8 showed up in Dutch. I talked to Filemaker and the 'solution' they offer, which works, is to change the system language, and log out and in again. This indeed gives me an english filemaker, but also an english system... So my wish is to be able to change FM langua…

I would like all static references for things to be lifted. Such as SET FIELD, instead of a "specify" button to specify and choose from a static list of tables/fields I would like the standard define field calculation box where we can specify by various methods which field to set. This would also be good for Variables right now you have to declare the variable name instead allow us to provide our own calculation to do so. I realize you can use the actual value part and a Let statement to do the same thing but it would be much simpler to use the entry box for the variable name it's own calculation apart from the calculation use to declare the variable. I can se…

It would be wonderful if iMailer functions could be built into FileMaker. iMailer is terrific but it's just one more cost for something that would be a great addition so that you don't have to mess with attachments.

It would be great to be able to selectively set certain fields on each layout to display the misspelled word indicator (little red dots under the word, Mac). This way, on one layout, if the user needs to see this then I can turn it on, but for other layouts or fields it can be turned off. In other words set spell check based on fields and layouts, not a file. While I am talking about spelling, it would be wonderful to select a centralized spelling dictionary on a server. So all hosted files could use and add to the same dictionary. It could be a FM file on FMServer.

Isn't it an idea for Filemaker to make an Explorer-plugin, which is using FMNET to connect to servers, so the Web application is exact the same as the FMPro version? And the plugin has to be for free, so many users can take advantage of the possibilities of FM? Maybe a profit modell for FM, by taking the profits of the (special) server version? So there would be no difference any more between FM Pro and IWP? Using FMNET over the internet is very satisfying for us, so there would be no problem to upgrade this kind of solution!