The «Manage Security» dialog box was redesigned. The security in a FileMaker application was also improved. The «While» function adds logic to a recursive Custom Function.

As a developer, I remember how difficult it was in the past to develop a server-side script, without a tool to log the errors. The «Set Error Logging» script step allows recording in a file if errors happen during the execution of a script. No more need to install a plugin to manipulate a file. New script steps were added to manipulate files, like verify if a file exists, rename a file, verify if a file is already opened, open a file, read from or write to a file and close it. This simplifies the installation process of an application on the users’ computers. When FileMaker Pro Advanced starts, it can open an application.

The new interface allows us to find a field by typing his name. Before, for tables with more then 1000 fields, we spent much time to find a field. The import data interface was redesigned and allow us to match faster the source table fields with the target table fields. FileMaker 18 is here, with new functions to improve the development and databases maintenance processes.

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