William Porter on FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Go version 12

April 3, 2012

WP’s reviews of FileMaker Pro 12 and FileMaker Go 12 are online now at Macworld.com, here and here respectively. Read ‘em and smile!

NOTE for our existing clients, including CMAssistant and Goodbooks clients: DO NOT UPGRADE to FileMaker Pro 12 without contacting us first. The new versions of Pro and Go are terrific but there are several important things to consider before you proceed with an upgrade.

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Old news: FileMaker Pro and Mac OS X.7 “Lion”

August 25, 2011

With the recent release of the 11.0.4 update, FileMaker Pro is now fully compatible with Mac OS X.7 “Lion”, which was released by Apple in July. As I noted here a week or two ago, there were/are some incompatibilities between FileMaker Pro 11.0.3 and Lion, but they were pretty minor and most of them didn’t affect my users. Anyway, with the 11.0.4 update, those incompatibilities are now gone. Well, I understand that there is one remaining problem that has to do with Instant Web Publishing (IWP), but none of my clients or licensees are using that, at least, none of my solutions rely on IWP. So, if you’re using Mac OS X.7 and FileMaker Pro 11, be sure to get the latest update for FileMaker and you’ll be in good shape.

If you are using an earlier version of FileMaker Pro, however, then do NOT upgrade immediately. There are known incompatibilities with the more recent previous versions of FileMaker Pro (10, for example). And even earlier versions aren’t compatible at all. Please check http://filemaker.com for more info, or contact Polytrope Support. [WP]

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