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FileMaker Pro
FileMaker Pro 11.0.4
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Powerful, easy-to-use database; Server version available.   Updater ($299)
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FileMaker Pro is powerful, easy-to-use database software that helps you and your team get any task done faster. Millions of people in business, government, and education use FileMaker Pro to effortlessly manage all their information on Windows, Mac, and the web.

In addition to the more than 30 built-in Starter Solutions that help you manage your important tasks, FileMaker Pro also has more easy-to-use tools to enable you to:

Create custom databases
Create custom databases for your own unique needs. To get started just drag and drop Microsoft Excel
What's New
Version 11.0.4:

Data Formatting:

  • Mac OS X 10.7 Lion only: Addressed an issue with some date field formats showing Asian characters.
  • Mac OS X 10.7 Lion only: Addressed an issue with not being able to use zero or negative numbers in data formatting in the Inspector and in some controls in the Chart Setup dialog.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later.


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FileMaker Pro User Discussion (Write a Review)
ver. 11.x:
(7)
Your rating: Now say why...
Overall:
(15)

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burypromote

+104

Rubaiyat reviewed on 07 Feb 2012
Does it talk with THE office suite, iWork, from that totally unrelated company, Apple?

NO!
[Version 11.0.4]


burypromote
+1

+107
Xco commented on 20 Apr 2011
Sadly, Filemaker has not been brought into the modern Mac age. It is looking long in the tooth, a legacy from its past. Too bad, the Mac really needs a reasonably powered, yet easy to use, customizable database environment. In some ways, Bento exhibits some nice needed features, such as Smart Folders. But Bento is incredibly limited even for layout design.

If Filemaker is to re-position Filemaker and Filemaker iOS as a rapid application development tool, then maybe folks at its parent company need to assist. The user interface capabilities are increasingly oh so important.

What Filemaker needs: a fundamental re-think, and re-build.
[Version 11.0.3]


burypromote
+3

-10

Sw_tester reviewed on 10 Feb 2011
contacted Filemaker about several serious bugs that make using 11.02 impossible. they were able to reproduce the problem and confirmed the bugs.
now after six months they finally release 11.03 and no fixes.
Filemaker get your act together.
[Version 11.0.3]


burypromote

+4
Kaiyaraj commented on 26 Aug 2010
Not support Thai.
[Version 11.0.2]


burypromote
+8

+11
Ash435 commented on 20 Apr 2010
Within minutes I am stymied and repelled by conventions which seem quite unlike any other OS X app:

Can't undo most actions.
Can't select text from a list, like a spreadsheet. I just want to be able to do this occasionally.
Can't seem to format a column, just one item at a time!
Pop-ups in a form don't work like in OS X - it's like a clumsy webpage.
Lists are just ugly.
Form design looks ugly, as it did 6 years ago.
There's an image field but I can't drag an image to it.
etc...

I know I shouldn't pass judgement in minutes but every year I try to get into Filemaker. I owned, used and largely disliked v7 or 8 for a while.

I'd just like an easy to use database with a few decent reporting features. Why can't they make an app with the ease and style of Bento and some of the features of Filemaker?
[Version 11.0.1]

2 Replies

burypromote
+4

+31
Peter replied on 23 Oct 2010
I'd completely agree. I'm in the same mental space as you. Can't add any more since you said it so well. Just one thing I disagree on is that, to me, Bento is hideously ugly and poorly designed (visually) and I hope Filemaker could come up with something more "serious" and professional offering the features you suggest and and a grown-up interface.
burypromote
+1

+11
Ash435 replied on 24 Oct 2010
I'm glad I'm not the only one, Peter. When I said Bento had style, I meant in its more Mac-like interface. Obviously the templates are all ghastly but I found some templates online (Search for Neutrals) that get rid of the all the garish colours, marker felt and US Typewriter.

I wish Bento would allow form design using actual OS X elements and allow you to strip down the database into a sort of stand-alone app.

And if we could make reports with our data that would be useful too.

I'd be happiest if an updated Bento/Filemaker was rolled into iWork and picked up an iWork-style interface.
burypromote

+11

Simonm reviewed on 10 Apr 2010
This company seems to be copping a lot of flack for their pricing, but I actually think $299 is pretty reasonable. I've only been testing it for a couple of weeks but am pretty impressed so far by its speed, stability, and feature set.

If you're considering spending $99 on Bento, I'd strongly advise against wasting your money on a rubbish product. If possible, you'd be better to stretch your budget and get a proper robust database with great data transforming and import/export features. Filemaker even comes with templates for things like CD and movie libraries.

For me, Filemaker seems to fill a need left vacant by spreadsheet software like Excel, and the even more limited Numbers.

It seems there were download and registration problems early, so maybe they underestimated the popularity of the trial. A 30 day unrestricted trial gives you plenty of time to asses it also.
[Version 11.0.1]

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burypromote

+11
Simonm replied on 10 Apr 2010
Oops! Bento is actually $49, sorry. My bad.
burypromote

+650
Espiridion commented on 30 Jun 2010
Another option is Panorama, by ProVUE. It does not look as "pretty" as the newest FileMaker or Bento, but in terms of speed, stability, feature set, ease of use, database size, etc., I preferred it. The new version 6 is supposed to be even faster.
burypromote

+11
Simonm replied on 02 Jul 2011
Thanks Espiridion, I'll check it out. I'm hesitant to buy FileMaker now that it's been out a while because as soon as I do they're guaranteed to release a Mac App Store version and halve the price or something!

Actually there was a deal where if you bought FileMaker Go for the iPad or iPhone then they'd give you a pretty hefty discount and that appears to have ended so there must be something around the corner I hope.
burypromote

+20
Dalahast commented on 04 Apr 2010
I don't think a graphic of some charts sitting on a surface with a little blurb above is the same thing as a screenshot, but whatever.
[Version 11.0.1]


burypromote

+915
Misha tipped on 09 Mar 2010
Heads up:

1. It took about 30 minutes to get the email link for the trial (as of 9:40am ET)
2. The trial link landing page says version 11 everywhere, but the download is still serving up version 10.

Looks like FM needs a bit more time to sort this out...
[Version 11.0]

1 Reply

burypromote
+4

+915
Misha replied on 09 Mar 2010
This is fixed now. Direct DL for those who had problems: http://fmdl.filemaker.com/TBUB/eleven/fmp_trial_fm_11.0.1.96.dmg
burypromote
-1

-1
Amartsin commented on 26 Dec 2009
I take issue with the user BIBERKOPF's review of September 16, 2009. I am not a developer and cannot offer a detailed analysis of this software but I do have a short comment on one of the claims in that review: "send email from server or client via smtp". Have you actually tried to send email from FM Pro? Today I lost more than an hour of my time trying to do just that.

Unless there is undocumented info on how to do that, you CANNOT send email with the content of a layout in the found set of records. In my case this was simply a letter with one variable field, the name of the recipient. After long and frustrating experiments I had to copy and paste the contents into the message field and replace the personal name with an impersonal "Customer". This kind of "functionality" is simply idiotic. Moreover, the email dialog box exhibited unstable behavior -- different results for the same inputs. You can add to that this crown jewel of developer's newspeak: "cannot send email successfully"(?!) as a notification of a failed attempt. Actually, there are more problems with that dialog box. Once the send fails, you can no longer edit the address, cc, and bcc fields -- you immediately get another failure notification. It also appears that the subject field does not like phrases starting with numbers, for example, 2010. I am also puzzled by the "collect addresses across found set" check box under the BCC field. Doesn't it defeat the purpose of the BCC field, at least according to the warning in the FM Help section? Speaking of the check boxes, they get checked even when you click outside those boxes(?!) This is particularly bad because of the disastrous consequences of that action when, again according to the Help section, say, 10 recipients would receive 10 emails instead of one.

(Now, the Help section also gives you food for thought: at one point it claim that under Mac OS X you can only use Entourage as a mail client, but in a different place it claims that Apple Mail can be used).

All that brings me to the final point -- do all other items in BIBERKOPF's list work the same way as email does? Also, where does the $300 price tag fit in all that?
[Version 10.0v3]


burypromote
+1

+40
Nick Collingridge commented on 13 Dec 2009
This just may be the final straw for me - Filemaker is the MOST frustrating product to work with. Now it's a problem with activation - I have just migrated across to a new 27" iMac and in every other respect this has been a pretty straightforward process. However when I try to launch Filemaker Pro I get a dialog requiring me to activate. When I do it first of all takes twenty or so minutes before a response comes back from the activation server, and this tells me that I need to deactivate my copy on another computer - presumably the one I've just migrated from. Fair enough, except that I don't know why it takes so long to get a response on this when I obviously want to be able to use the software as soon as possible.

So anyway I go to the old system, connect it up and then boot it up. Launching Filemaker Pro and guess what - I get a dialog telling me I need to activate it! And no way of getting any further at this point - if I click the "Activate Later" button I get a dialog that says "A trial version of FMP has been used on this computer. Contact FileMaker or your reseller to purchase FileMaker Pro. If you receive this message after selecting Activate Later, then please activate your licensed copy of FileMaker Pro." This dialog also appears on the new system, even though that one DEFINITELY has never had a demo copy installed.

So that's it - I'm screwed and because this is a weekend I have no way of getting any further because their licensing team is not available out of working hours. So all my data that is in FMP is unuseable and inaccessible on either of these systems. This is pathetic in my view - its shouldn't be possible to be so locked out of your data.

I don't know what's gone wrong - I am a totally law-abiding purchaser of the product and yet I am unable to use it.
[Version 10.0v3]


burypromote

+1
X23 had trouble on 30 Jun 2010
tried installing the 11.0v2 update on 2 difference machines so far.

both would get nearly 98% done with the install and then fail saying a valid copy of Filemaker v11 could not be found.

both had valid copies of Filemaker 11.0v1.

the bunk installs don't seem to have 'ruined' the existing install. but i am not ever able to get the actual update.
[Version 11.0.2]

1 Reply

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Tcmeyers replied on 07 Jul 2010
I experienced the same trouble updating from FMP 11.0.1 to 11.0.2... on a Mac with both FMP and FMPA installed (both 11.0.1) I ran the updater and it appeared to work fine, writing numerous files, but right near the end a warning dialog box came up that said "a valid copy of Filemaker 11 could not be found" ...and neither version of the app was updated. Both appear to still work fine, though. Tried several times, redownloaded the updater, etc.

+11

Simonm rated on 02 Jul 2011

[Version 11.0.3]




John McInerney rated on 23 May 2011

[Version 11.0.3]



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ProjectBuilders rated on 17 Apr 2011

[Version 11.0.3]



+7

Emrys0821 rated on 01 Mar 2011

[Version 11.0.3]


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Version Downloads:2,800
Type:Business : Applications
License:Updater
Date:09 Aug 2011
Platform:PPC / Intel
Price: $299.00
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FileMaker Pro is powerful, easy-to-use database software that helps you and your team get any task done faster. Millions of people in business, government, and education use FileMaker Pro to effortlessly manage all their information on Windows, Mac, and the web.

In addition to the more than 30 built-in Starter Solutions that help you manage your important tasks, FileMaker Pro also has more easy-to-use tools to enable you to:

Create custom databases
Create custom databases for your own unique needs. To get started just drag and drop Microsoft Excel data into FileMaker Pro.

Produce reports
Get step-by-step reporting tools to help you manage and automate your tasks. Easily create and email reports in Excel or PDF.

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