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We’ve tried it with our database, but please be careful testing your database. FileMaker Go does not have the entire set of features that FileMaker on your computer does. Please read the list of the known issues.

On our first launch of FMSmallBusiness, we accessed the Home screen and the Contacts module as you can see above. So far, it seems to work great with no modifications. That said, we will be releasing an update to further support FileMaker Go on iPad. We also plan to create special layouts for FileMaker Go on iPhone.

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• First, you can connect to your database on FileMaker Server just like your can using FileMaker on your computer. This works via Wi-Fi or via 3G.
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Before today, getting access to your data meant using:

• FileMaker on your desktop
• Via web pages using a FileMaker’s Instant Web Publising
• Via web pages using FileMaker PHP Web Publishing
• FMTouch from FMWebSchool

This really changes how we can use our data. While you cannot develop database using FileMaker Go, you can access your FileMaker databases in a few ways.

• First, you can connect to your database on FileMaker Server just like your can using FileMaker on your computer. This works via Wi-Fi or via 3G.
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In general, the FileMaker database that you use on your computer should work exactly the same on your iPhone or iPad. There are some limitations, but the list is very short.

Here are a few examples:

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So, we created a FileMaker IWP solution to allow their customers to search by City and State. Just to be clear, IWP stands for Instant Web Publishing. IWP automatically converts FileMaker layouts and scripts into interactive web pages. It’s really amazing!

Normally, we would create a search page that would ask for a zipcode. The zipcode would be converted into an approximate Latitude and Longitude using a FileMaker table of close to 100,000 Zipcodes. Then based on a radius in miles, we would find all the locations that are positioned within the radius using a distance formula.

This time was a bit different. Our client wanted to have their customers search by their City and State such as, ‘Orlando, FL’. The problem was what are the Latitude and Longitude for Orlando? There are close to 100 zipcodes for Orlando, so which one do you use? Well, we used all of them. We found that if we average all of the Orlando Latitudes and then average all of the Orlando Longitudes, we get close enough to the center of Orlando. It’s not perfect, but it’s close enough. Once we had the city center coordinates, we were able to find all the locations with in 25 miles of the customer.

While we could have gone out and found a list of city coordinates we just used what we had on hand.

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http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker/demos.html

One example in particular is UltraLog. Dr. Ray’s description: This logging system captures *all* changes to data, regardless of how they are made (including changes made by script, via IWP, xDBC, CWP and so on)! Moreover the UltraLog system operates transactionally – it doesn’t log anything until the record is committed (or submitted in the case of web transactions) and then it logs changes since the last commit.

The  UltraLog info and download page is here:

http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker/demosX/demoX01.html

It works and it works great! However, we wanted to store the logged data as XML. You can copy and paste the modified versions below as either text or for Clip Manager.

The first thing thing we did was to rename the function to LogUltraXML to fit our naming scheme as we prefer top down naming so our scripts sort nicely. Second was to rename Dr. Ray’s Let Variables. He really is a genius. We had a hard time understanding what each variable meant, like ‘Pst’. So we started at the top and renamed them to something that we could understand. For ‘Pst’, we ended up call it ‘theFieldValuePositionStart’. Next we changed the log delimiters to use xml tags so we could read data out of the log a bit easier using another Custom Function ‘ParseData’.

Try it out and let us know what you think!

LogUltraXML as Text

// SYNTAX:  LogUltraXML ( LogField ; ModTime ; FieldsToLog )

// Example: LogUltraXML ( LogData ; ModStamp ; “TheText¶TheText[2]¶TheNumber¶TheDate¶TheTime” )

// ORIGIN:  http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker

// NOTES:  Transactional ( IWP Compatible ) Audit Log Function.

// VERSION: 1.0v3

// © 2009 Ray Cologon, NightWing Enterprises, Melbourne, Australia

// UPDATED: By Hal Gumbert to Store Values as XML

Case ( ValueCount ( FieldsToLog ) and not $ClearLogPermit ;

Let ( [

theFieldName = GetValue ( FieldsToLog ; 1 ) ;

theFieldNamePosition = Position ( LogField ; "<Field>" & theFieldName & "</Field>" ; 1 ; 1 ) ;

theFieldValuePositionStart = Position ( LogField ; "<Value>" ; theFieldNamePosition ; 1 ) + 7 ;

theFieldValuePositionEnd = Position ( LogField ; "</Value>" ; theFieldNamePosition ; 1 ) ;

theFieldValueOld = If ( theFieldNamePosition ; Middle ( LogField ; theFieldValuePositionStart ; theFieldValuePositionEnd - theFieldValuePositionStart ) ; "[---]” ) ;

theFieldValueCurrent = GetField ( theFieldName ) ;

theFieldValueClean = Substitute ( theFieldValueCurrent ; ¶ ; “‡” ) ;

theFieldValueNew = If ( Length ( theFieldValueCurrent ) ; theFieldValueClean ; “[null]” ) ;

vInit = theFieldNamePosition = 0 and IsEmpty ( theFieldValueCurrent ) ;

Prep = Exact ( $ClearLogPermit ; “0″ ) ] ;

If ( not Exact ( theFieldValueOld ; theFieldValueNew ) and not vInit ;

TextStyleAdd ( TextColor (

“<Date>” & GetAsDate ( ModTime )  & “</Date>” & “<Time>” & GetAsTime ( ModTime )  & “</Time>” &

“<Account>” & If ( Prep ; “[Log Prep]” ; Get ( AccountName ) ) & “</Account>” &

“<Field>” & theFieldName & “</Field>” &

“<ValuePrior>” & theFieldValueOld & “</ValuePrior>” &

“<Value>” & theFieldValueNew & “</Value>¶” ; Prep*11776947 ) ; Prep*Italic ) ) &

LogUltraXML ( LogField ; ModTime ; RightValues ( FieldsToLog ; ValueCount ( FieldsToLog ) – 1 ) )

) ;

LogField

)

LogUltraXML as ClipManager

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

<fmxmlsnippet type=”FMObjectList”>

<CustomFunction id=”32918″ functionArity=”3″ visible=”True” parameters=”LogField;ModTime;FieldsToLog” name=”LogUltraXML”>

<Calculation>

// SYNTAX:  LogUltraXML ( LogField ; ModTime ; FieldsToLog )

// Example: LogUltraXML ( LogData ; ModStamp ; “TheText¶TheText[2]¶TheNumber¶TheDate¶TheTime” )

// ORIGIN:  http://www.nightwing.com.au/FileMaker

// NOTES:  Transactional ( IWP Compatible ) Audit Log Function.

// VERSION: 1.0v3

// © 2009 Ray Cologon, NightWing Enterprises, Melbourne, Australia

// UPDATED: By Hal Gumbert to Store Values as XML

Case ( ValueCount ( FieldsToLog ) and not $ClearLogPermit ;

Let ( [

theFieldName = GetValue ( FieldsToLog ; 1 ) ;

theFieldNamePosition = Position ( LogField ; "&lt;Field&gt;" &amp; theFieldName &amp; "&lt;/Field&gt;" ; 1 ; 1 ) ;

theFieldValuePositionStart = Position ( LogField ; "&lt;Value&gt;" ; theFieldNamePosition ; 1 ) + 7 ;

theFieldValuePositionEnd = Position ( LogField ; "&lt;/Value&gt;" ; theFieldNamePosition ; 1 ) ;

theFieldValueOld = If ( theFieldNamePosition ; Middle ( LogField ; theFieldValuePositionStart ; theFieldValuePositionEnd - theFieldValuePositionStart ) ; "[---]” ) ;

theFieldValueCurrent = GetField ( theFieldName ) ;

theFieldValueClean = Substitute ( theFieldValueCurrent ; ¶ ; “‡” ) ;

theFieldValueNew = If ( Length ( theFieldValueCurrent ) ; theFieldValueClean ; “[null]” ) ;

vInit = theFieldNamePosition = 0 and IsEmpty ( theFieldValueCurrent ) ;

Prep = Exact ( $ClearLogPermit ; “0″ ) ] ;

If ( not Exact ( theFieldValueOld ; theFieldValueNew ) and not vInit ;

TextStyleAdd ( TextColor (

“&lt;Date&gt;” &amp; GetAsDate ( ModTime )  &amp; “&lt;/Date&gt;” &amp; “&lt;Time&gt;” &amp; GetAsTime ( ModTime )  &amp; “&lt;/Time&gt;” &amp;

“&lt;Account&gt;” &amp; If ( Prep ; “[Log Prep]” ; Get ( AccountName ) ) &amp; “&lt;/Account&gt;” &amp;

“&lt;Field&gt;” &amp; theFieldName &amp; “&lt;/Field&gt;” &amp;

“&lt;ValuePrior&gt;” &amp; theFieldValueOld &amp; “&lt;/ValuePrior&gt;” &amp;

“&lt;Value&gt;” &amp; theFieldValueNew &amp; “&lt;/Value&gt;¶” ; Prep*11776947 ) ; Prep*Italic ) ) &amp;

LogUltraXML ( LogField ; ModTime ; RightValues ( FieldsToLog ; ValueCount ( FieldsToLog ) – 1 ) )

) ;

LogField

)</Calculation>

</CustomFunction>

</fmxmlsnippet>

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This is what the Favorite Hosts XML portion looks like:

While this isn’t terribly hard, you may corrupt your FileMaker Prefs File, so please be careful!

Steps to make this work:

• Download the FavHosts.fp7 file.
• Launch FileMaker 11 and create at least one Favorite Host so you can find the XML to replace.
• Quit FileMaker.
• Make sure FileMaker is not running.  :)
• Find the FileMaker preferences file. On Mac it is located in your User folder in Library/Preferences. Mine is titled “com.filemaker.client.advanced.plist”.
• Duplicate the preferences file so you have a backup.
• Open the preferences file with a text editor. I use TextWrangler and find the XML for the Favorite Hosts. You can see ours above.
• Somehow, someway, get your Favorite Hosts out of FileMaker 10 and into the FavHosts.fp7 database. I ended up copy and pasting the info into the FavHosts.fp7 database.
• Run the Script “Copy Fav Hosts as XML to the Clipboard”.
• Paste the XML into your FileMaker preferences file, replacing the current Favorite Hosts info and save the file.
• Launch FileMaker 11 and see if your Favorite Hosts are available!

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