Improved calculation dialog in FileMaker

13 hours ago13 hr

The upcoming MBS FileMaker Plugin 16.3 version will have a few improvements to the calculation dialog for macOS.

FileMaker calculation dialog

Time measurement

Whenever you develop a calculation, the MBS tools offer you additional things to do. You can check the syntax, format, execute and add or remove the table occurence names. For the first three you can press shift key to only check, format or execute the selected text.

Below the OK button, we show the time needed to execute the given calculation (or selection). Depending on how long it takes, we show µs or ms as unit. Please note that the time includes the time for FileMaker to parse the formula.

New shortcut

You can press Command-Option-T in the calculation editor. If you have no text selected, we insert the name of the current table occurence from the top left popup menu. But if you have text selected, we try to find that text in the popup and select it. This way you can quickly jump to the table occurence and FileMaker shows the field names on the left.

Please try the 16.3 beta versions if you like to test this.