You can add favorite remote hosts to ease access to hosted database files. Files on the iPad are on the left while remote hosts and recently used remote files are listed on the right. When you open the app, the first screen with which you are presented is a list of the available files. The FileMaker Go app can open any database file created with FileMaker 7 or later, but FileMaker notes that FMP and FileMaker Developer 7 are already out of product support and that product support on FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Advanced 8 and 8.5 ends September 23, 2010. You must separately have a copy of FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Advanced/Developer to create and modify databases. It can only be used on devices with iOS 4 or higher. There is a separate app for use on an iPod Touch or iPhone. Creation and modification still requires a computer.įileMaker Go for iPad can only be used on an iPad. The app does not gives users the ability to manage the database tables, fields and relationships, modify layouts, create or modify scripts or export records. It is designed for finished products, i.e., databases that are ready to be deployed.

It is not an app for creating or developing a FileMaker database like FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Advanced. Users can work from databases loaded onto the iPad itself or connect to remote files hosted by a FileMaker Server or shared on a FileMaker Pro client.īefore delving into the details, let me mention what FileMaker Go is not.

I can easily imagine this app being used on an iPad by a warehouse inventory clerk on the warehouse floor to update inventory numbers or by a repair man or some other mobile business person out in the field to create invoices and email them to clients. It’s a great tool for those that frequently use databases for work, but need to shed the bulk of a desktop or laptop machine in the field.

It makes taking your Filemaker databases with you an easy experience providing users with a simple but robust way of accessing and modifying data. I have to use FileMaker Pro all the time so I was eager to see how the new FileMaker Go app for the iPad worked.

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