almondine

Ebay should be called 'russian roulette' when it comes to software. Depends a LOT who you are buying from. My advice is tread caarefully and watchout for the 'gotchas'.

This seems like a good option to know about. But it does point to the shortcoming that you can only use ten keyboard commands to trigger scripts using FileMaker normally. FMP should really address this, I think, to provide more options - at least in the developer edition!

There doesn't seem to be much new - just an update to include the features of the current release of the standard edition. Some of these would be nice to have' features in a run time - I'm thinking of XML import and export for instance - but it isn't a lot to justify such an expensive upgrade. The fact that there is only a rebate and no upgrade path seems also not very generous to current users.

If you're scripting this, you could try setting up a related file with calculating fields which 'mirror' the content of the fields you want to let users export, then sending them to an export dialog from the related file instead. You'd need to set up the script to write the key fields to records in the related file first, so it would pick up the required field data from your main file.