The reason for the first change was at around v2 or so. And yet, you were hoping it would have changed just a little more.If my calculations are correct this is the forth file format. Developing in FileMaker again is sort of like reuniting with a close but difficult friend who insists, then as now, on doing things their way. Well, the free iOS app is at least cool, and welcome. You can’t just say: “This field? Let’s turn it blue and put it over there and make it pop up a menu.” They’re only sorta gonna cut it if you need, as we do, a company app. While WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal have largely occupied this space, they’re limited in what they can do visually without technical skill. You could use FileMaker expressly for the purpose of developing full-featured, good-looking, database-driven web applications without needing to know web programming. If FileMaker were to trick out IWP with AJAX (live updating without refresh, like Google uses everywhere), and give it all the capabilities of the desktop version, and make use of the new visual themes…it would be a wildly compelling product.
As it stands now, FileMaker Pro is a niche client-server application sold mostly to an existing customer base, and it offers web access as a bolt-on feature.īut if web publishing were the feature, it would be epic.
If FileMaker (who are a division of Apple) were to invest in FileMaker Instant Web Publishing, it could almost be an entirely different product. In 2013, this feature is still fairly primitive, and there’s still a ton of functionality you don’t get - including the pretty new FileMaker 12 visual themes! (This means you get the older, uglier themes with the newer, more irritating layout tools.)
In other words, you could create a database-driven web application without needing to touch a line of HTML. This super great feature was introduced in FileMaker 4 (1997), and basically took a FileMaker layout and published it so that it could be accessed from any web browser. Unfortunately, I found the new layout editor hard to get around - it’s difficult to see which individual items are selected during multiple selection, and there’s no drag-copy-on-a-grid to keep things aligned.īut the big bummer was what we came to the table for: Instant Web Publishing.
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