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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
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 12.0.1:
Note: FileMaker Pro 12 is a $179 update from version 9, 10, and 11.
New eye-catching themes for any task
- FileMaker Pro 12 is the fastest way to create stunning databases for you and your team. Now you can quickly build solutions that are crisp, clean, and make you more productive than ever. Instantly change the look of your layout by applying one of 40 stunning new themes specifically designed for your iPad, iPhone and desktop. Each theme comes with pre-defined fonts, colors, and object styling. In just a few clicks your layout has a professional, new look. Easily customize a layout to meet your needs by adding gradients, images, and more.
- Get new tools to help you more easily tailor your layouts. Use new rulers, grids, and guides to get the design precision you need. Objects are easier to select and re-size and now display interactive states such as hover, pressed, or in focus. Plus, click "Undo" multiple times, so you can experiment with your layouts as much as you'd like.
- Converting your existing solutions is straightforward as well. Converted solutions maintain the original look and feel. Or you can apply a new theme if you choose.
- FileMaker Pro 12 comes with all-new Starter Solutions, re-built from the ground up to better showcase your data. You'll have the best working solutions possible for managing projects, scheduling resources, creating estimates, and much more. The Starter Solutions also include layouts customized for iPad and iPhone.
- Container fields in FileMaker Pro allow you to store any type of file in your database including photos, videos, music, documents, and more. In FileMaker Pro 12, container fields have been re-engineered to improve database performance and make your solutions even easier to use. Drag and drop files into your database, render images faster, stream videos and music, and securely store and manage data externally.
- Creating FileMaker Charts is a snap with new Quick Charts. Simply sort and group your data. Then click to bring up an integrated set-up window with an Inspector-like tool palette that allows you to preview and customize your chart. Instantly see changes to your graph as you make them. Once complete, you can print your chart or save it as a new layout.
- Get 5 new chart types including bubble, scatter, positive / negative, stacked bar, and stacked column charts. FileMaker Pro 12 now comes with a total of 10 charting styles so you'll have even more flexibility to graphically display data the way you want to.
- Easily create solutions customized for FileMaker Go for iPad and iPhone; free downloads from the iTunes App Store. FileMaker Pro 12 comes with a set of built-in iPad and iPhone themes that optimize fonts, colors, buttons, and other objects for your device. Plus, use new screen stencils to guide you in building tailored layouts for the iPad and iPhone.
- Scripts and calculations have also been improved to help you more easily create iOS-ready solutions. FileMaker Pro 12 includes a location-based function to aid in tracking inventory, deliveries, and projects. Plus, instantly view scripts that are iOS-compatible - no more guesswork required.
Version 12.0.1:
Note: FileMaker Pro 12 is a $179 update from version 9, 10, and 11.
New eye-catching themes for any task
- FileMaker Pro 12 is the fastest way to create stunning databases for you and your team. Now you can quickly build solutions more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
FileMaker Pro User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:187,058 |
| Version Downloads:1,435 |
| Type:Business : Applications |
| License:Demo |
| Date:04 Apr 2012 |
| Platform: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.
Publish data to the web
Securely publish your databases to the web in a few clicks. Create surveys, registration sites, customer feedback forms, and more.
Share in a couple of clicks
Safely share with both Windows and Mac users. Plus share your databases over a network with up to 9 other users.
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.
Publish data to the web
Securely publish your databases to the web in a few clicks. Create surveys, registration sites, customer feedback forms, and more.
Share in a couple of clicks
Safely share with both Windows and Mac users. Plus share your databases over a network with up to 9 other users.
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Jimmy-D reviewed on 26 Apr 2012
Power users need simple usability improvements too, and Bento's complete lack of files is too simple for anyone with slightly complex needs. Bringing improved usability like is found in Bento is sorely needed. My Filemaker suggestions that have been ignored for years:
Undo: It is easy to accidentally hit return and erase data, and there is no way to undo that once return is pressed, apart from using Time Machine. It should be easy for Filemaker to copy and remember the contents of the cell being edited, regardless of Filemaker's excuse that it is a real database that makes changes instantly so undo is impossible. Impossible, really?
Table View: add copying/pasting/deleting and selecting across multiple cells/columns, like you can in a spreadsheet and Bento. There is no way to do this otherwise and it would make working with data lot easier.
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Thank you for making Filemaker Pro 12 available for trial. I have tested almost every version since I owned Filemaker Pro 7, always hoping that the software would develop to better support my needs and expectations. The news that you were moving on from the Mac OS 7-style interface elements was a relief, and there are some good themes which show what style and elegance can now be achieved. Unfortunately, table view doesn't seem to have been updated much over the years. It would be good if you could make table view work as smoothly and look as elegant as the similar table interfaces in Bento, Numbers or iTunes. Anyway, here are some other questions/feedback, to which you are welcome to reply if you think you can help me:
If I import a spreadsheet and end up with a bunch of extra rows, how do I select multiple rows (entries) and delete them?
I still can't copy data easily from a table by selecting with the cursor as if you were using spreadsheet. I appreciate that this is not what databases are for, but it would be useful, just like it is in Bento.
When viewing a large table, is it possible to 'freeze' columns so that I can see at least my first column, even as a scroll horizontally to view other columns?
I tried making a database with a container for files. Firstly, how do I then access those attachments? It added them but apart from the thumbnail there didn't seem to be a way to view them (no quickview) let alone open them. Also, the check box for referenced file was never functional, so adding a movie, say, increased the size of my database by 2 GB!
Why is horizontal and vertical scrolling of a database in list view on a fairly recent MBP so clunky? Why can't you optimise the software to scroll smoothly, or at least with a refresh rate that is faster than 0.5 s?
When I resize the columns in table view how come the contents aren't updated dynamically like in Bento and Numbers? And despite the lack of dynamic updating of the headers and content, resizing a column is still hampered by an incredibly slow refresh rate. Seriously, it's this underlying clunkiness that suggests that some very fundamental things have not changed since the last version I used (fm7) or before. I try every update (with optimism) and I find your repetitive claims of a modernised interface are always exaggerated.
Perhaps I'm not your Filemaker Pro customer, although as a teacher/manager in a small school, I maintain many large databases in Excel. I would love to manage this data properly in a database but as a Mac user I don't have a lot of choice unless I go down the VM route. If Filemaker Pro is never likely to shed its legacy roots and offer the features I want, can't you just add reports and non-ugly themes to Bento or release a Mac/iOS/online Bento Pro?
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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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The list of obvious needed design and functional changes is enormous, but feedback is pointless as FM, having stifled database competition on the Mac, is just vegetating
FileMaker has to be the dull, unenterprising pensioned off division of Apple. If I worked there I wouldn't admit it to even my family.
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Simonm reviewed on 10 Apr 2010
If you're considering spending $49 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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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
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ProjectBuilders rated on 17 Apr 2011
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Emrys0821 rated on 01 Mar 2011