Filemaker Pro 7, Anyone know when?

farmer2farmer2
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Just curious if anyone has heard when filemaker is supposed to release ver 7. I remember hearing a long time ago that it would be june or july of this year but I haven't seen anything since.



Also info regarding supposed changes to program would be nice.



Thanx in advance

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    rokrok Posts: 3,519member
    only thing i have heard is that it will be "shown" at the upcoming filemaker developer conference. they'll probably state a "due out" date at that time.



    from what filemaker said during their last public conference appearance, version 7 should be dramatically better than version 6 was (probably based off complaints that version 6 simply didn't do very much for the price).



    someone around these boards posted what filemaker 7 would have... maybe do a search for filemaker and see what comes up?
  • Reply 2 of 7
    frank777frank777 Posts: 5,839member
    Here's what was posted on Macintouch last year:



    July 22





    Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002

    From: [MacInTouch Reader]

    Subject: FileMaker Pro 6 and beyond



    At last year's FileMaker Developer Conference (Orlando, FL - August 2001), the keynote speech by Chung Lee (Director of FM product development, I believe) outlined a 24-month time frame for some profound changes in FileMaker. I took extensive notes, and as this was an open session (not under NDA) I think you can share them with your readers. It may be of help to those who are complaining about the relatively small changes in FM 6. I think FM 7 is going to knock everyone's socks off.



    FileMaker Pro Future Directions (presented by Chung Lee)

    - 2003 (2-year) time frame



    * Entirely New Database Engine



    * No file number or guest limits in Server

    * No file size limits

    * Clients will be able to have multiple sessions simultaneously

    * Designed for Network performance - possibly using bitmap communication

    (like Terminal Server)

    * Support for other clients directly to FileMaker Server - ODBC, JDBC,

    XML, HTTP, IWP, CWP

    * User accounts and LDAP support

    * Unicode support - sharing across languages

    * Component based architecture





    New relational features



    * Multiple Keys in Relationship dialog (replacing concatenated keys)

    * Built-in Entity-Relationship Viewer in Relationships dialog

    * New query processor (in FM Server) to divide labor between server and

    host resulting in less network traffic.

    * No more "pipelining" between tables





    Ease of User



    * E-R interface for relationships

    * Multiple Windows (screens) open per file

    * Multiple active databases





    More Power





    * New calculation engine (completely rebuilt)

    * Richer data types - rich text, global calculations, time stamp (single

    field for date/time)





    Improved Productivity: Single File - Multiple tables





    * Multiple Tables in a single file

    * Easier documentation of files and relationships

    * Define passwords, scripts, etc., once for set of tables

    * Easier updating





    Safer Design - Save/Revert on layouts





    Developer Features - User defined functions



    ---------------------------------------------
  • Reply 3 of 7
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    Die, Access! Die! 8)



    I've seen that post before, but it's always nice to see again. It sounds like FileMaker is going to rock.
  • Reply 4 of 7
    shankstashanksta Posts: 96member
    WOOOOOOHOOOOOO!



    This is music to my ears!
  • Reply 5 of 7
    farmer2farmer2 Posts: 21member
    Just curious, Macnn has a news story about this years filemaker developer conference. Is it likely that this is when it will be released?



    I am thinking about starting a small runtime application and

    would like to evaluate filmaker 7 vs access but don't want to wait real long.
  • Reply 6 of 7
    allenallen Posts: 84member
    Just wondering. Any rumors on the Filemaker Pro 7 front from the recent MacWorld
  • Reply 7 of 7
    gregincolumbusgregincolumbus Posts: 49member
    I also understand that Version 6 was the LAST one that would run on Mac Classic......Version 7 on will only run in OSX.



    That is too bad since there are many potential users (ie schools) that don't have the funds to dump all their Classic solutions and convert to OS X. All the new features of FMP7 will be lost for quite a while on those potential customers.
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