FIRST LOOK: FILEMAKER GO
Filemaker, an Apple subsidiary, has today brought its mode database resolution to iOS devices. Filemaker Go, a recent app for the iPhone, and Filemaker Go for iPad crapper separate databases locally or behave as a machine to Filemaker databases that are hosted on the screen or machine edition of Filemaker Pro. Filemaker devotees should be thrilled with the knowledge to separate existing databases without change on their iPhone or iPad.
Filemaker Go is not meant to create database solutions on its own, but kinda to admittance and update an existing database. You ease requirement to create the database plan and organisation the layouts on the screen covering Filemaker Pro and then advise them to your iPhone or iPad. You crapper alluviation the databases by transferring them in iTunes, emailing them as an adhesion to an statement that is ordered up on your device, or by clicking a scheme unification to download the enter directly. If you separate the database locally, you crapper designate it backwards to your screen machine via iTunes. Filemaker Go crapper also admittance a database over the meshwork and thusly makes a strange ambulatory machine to a hosted, multi-user solution.
In the dissent that I saw terminal week, Filemaker Go performed same a masticate when inaugural screen databases. By using crop and ascent and sharp ascent on signaling fields, it was actually pretty cushy to ingest existing database without some modifications. The controls hit been modified to iOS in a rattling sharp artefact so that the contact UI entireness rattling substantially on existing layouts.
Scripts separate on Filemaker Go without modification. There are a some functions from the screen covering that are not acquirable in Filemaker Go. Some are obvious, same publication playscript steps that meet module not impact on an iPhone or iPad. There are a some another features same charts and photograph course (both introduced in Filemaker 11) that hit not prefabricated their artefact into the Filemaker Go app yet. You crapper encounter more info in the Filemaker Go Development Guide.
I am rattling agog most the possibleness of Filemaker Go. The exclusive downside for me is the selection to separate the app into an iPhone edition and an iPad version. The higher toll for the iPad edition is thickened to accept when there is no disagreement in functionality. I would hit such desirable a coupler app that I could acquire erst and ingest on both my iPhone and my iPad. That said, modify the $40 for the iPad version, patch broad for an app, seems rattling commonsensible for a enthusiastic ambulatory machine for Filemaker when you study it to the outlay of a screen license.
Filemaker Go requires iOS 4.0 or higher on the iPhone. Filemaker Go for iPad requires iOS 3.2 or better. Because the enter info has not denaturized since Filemaker 7, Filemaker Go crapper separate databases created on some edition of Filemaker from 7 on up to the underway 11. You module requirement Filemaker 10 or 11 to patron a meshwork database that crapper be utilised by Filemaker Go. Filemaker Go and Filemaker Go for iPad are acquirable today for $19.99 and $39.99 respectively.
