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| Downloads:185,079 |
| Version Downloads:2,800 |
| Type:Business : Applications |
| License:Updater |
| Date:09 Aug 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $299.00 |
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Rubaiyat reviewed on 07 Feb 2012
NO!
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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.
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Sw_tester reviewed on 10 Feb 2011
now after six months they finally release 11.03 and no fixes.
Filemaker get your act together.
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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?
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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.
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Simonm reviewed on 10 Apr 2010
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.
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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.
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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...
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Simonm rated on 02 Jul 2011
John McInerney rated on 23 May 2011
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ProjectBuilders rated on 17 Apr 2011
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Emrys0821 rated on 01 Mar 2011