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Users can now produce PDFs directly from FileMaker Go and either save them on their mobile devices or email them. This feature lets mobile users easily save and distribute reports, create invoices, and share project status directly from their iPad or iPhone.
Another enhancement is the ability to save a copy of a complete database and email it directly from FileMaker Go. With this feature, iPhone and iPad users can exchange databases from their devices without needing to dock with a desktop or laptop.
The updates also deliver new ways to work more efficiently with photos and other media and information. FileMaker Go users can capture photos on an iPhone, or take photos that are already in the photo library of an iPhone or iPad, and insert them directly into a FileMaker Go database. Photos stored in a database can be emailed out later using FileMaker Go.
Other file types, such as spreadsheets, can be emailed directly from FileMaker Go.
Also new is the ability for FileMaker Go users to import records from local or hosted FileMaker databases using script steps.
iOS app developers may take advantage of the newly enhanced URL protocol from FileMaker for calling FileMaker Go. Using the URL protocol, developers can now specify a FileMaker Pro script and script parameters. This allows developers of commercial and in-house iOS applications to extend FileMaker Go databases and provide a wide spectrum of useful solutions such as bar code scanning.
“FileMaker Go for iPhone and FileMaker Go for iPad have stirred up huge excitement in the FileMaker community and beyond. Initial acceptance has been strong and this is just the beginning,” said Ryan Rosenberg, vice president of marketing and services for FileMaker, Inc., in the press release. “With these free updates, we are already making both apps even more powerful and adding new ways to share information remotely.”
FileMaker Go lets user view, edit and search FileMaker Pro records on iPhone or iPad. Databases can be accessed directly from files hosted on FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Server, or database files can be copied locally onto FileMaker Go via File Sharing in iTunes.
Compatible with FileMaker Pro 7 and all later versions, FileMaker Go 1.1 is available now as a free download for existing FileMaker Go users from the App Store. FileMaker Go for iPhone and iPod touch (running iOS 4) is US$19.99 and FileMaker Go for iPad (running iOS 3.2) is $39.99.
FileMaker is the leader in easy-to-use database software. Millions of people, from individuals to some of the world’s largest companies, rely on FileMaker software to manage, analyze and share essential information. The company’s products are the FileMaker Pro line – versatile database software for teams and organizations, for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and the web – and Bento, the personal database for Mac, iPhone and iPad. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple.
Source: FileMaker, Inc.
Why don’t they make the thing a Universal App and charge $30. They’ll sell more.
Have both. Great software.
@ Mr. Reese
“Why don’t they make the thing a Universal App and charge $30. They’ll sell more.”
That’s like saying you could eliminate unemployment if everybody cut their salary in half.
Something tells me you wouldn’t buy it anyway. You want it for nothing.
I’ll have to check this out. I have it on my iPad and it’s pretty good. One thing I’d love to see is the ability to capture signatures into the database from the iPad. That would be great for when we’re distributing computers each fall.
Bento is a great, cheap database program, but I think it still has a little way to go before it’s complete. I just hope they don’t raise the price when they get there.
I wish you could write and edit on the iPhone/iPod and just synchronise with my desktop FM Pro like I used to be able to on my Palm with the older Filemaker Mobile.
I would hate to have to go through iTunes to synchronise, unless I’m missing something. I’ve been waiting a long time for Filemaker to bring out amobile version once more. Does anyone who is using it know if it works properly as a relational database, with facilities for drop down boxes in fields?
“Does anyone who is using it know if it works properly as a relational database, with facilities for drop down boxes in fields?”
Yes to both.
@ Cubert
“Bento is a great, cheap database program, but I think it still has a little way to go before it’s complete. I just hope they don’t raise the price when they get there.”
Could you provide some examples of Apple raising prices as you implied?
@Deanbar
FileMaker Go for iPhone will work with shared databases, with editing capabilities – no need to sync through iTunes.
To quote “Databases can be accessed directly from files hosted on FileMaker Pro”.
MDmac,
I wasn’t implying that they would. I was just hoping that they wouldn’t, as many software companies do. Filemaker may be a subsidiary of Apple, but I think that’s as far as Apple’s reach goes. I don’t think Apple’s management makes many, if any, decisions.
@ Cubert
If you know FileMaker, you wouldn’t raise the issue. What other company besides Apple and FM includes both Mac and PC versions without compromising the price?