Maybe you should wait and see what FileMaker 13 has to offer. My full-time job is FileMaker dev work, and it does amazing things.
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FileMaker Pro 13 Prematurely Appears on Apple's Online Store [Updated]
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Maybe you should wait and see what FileMaker 13 has to offer. My full-time job is FileMaker dev work, and it does amazing things.
I have to disagree. For its price and its target market Bento was brilliant. It gave you relational databases made really really easy. It was flexible and incredibly easy to use. It lacked features of FileMaker Pro, but they were ones that many people can live without.
I have to say, though, that ditching Bento without a clear, simple, effective means of importing Bento databases into FMP is simply stupid. It gives the impression that FileMaker's software engineers are simply not competent enough to get the job done. Scarcely an advert for a company wanting to sell its software at £220 a throw
Don't get me wrong, I like Filemaker and have built a very complex custom HR management and productivity tracking tool for the small company where I work. I do look forward to FMP 13.
It's that particular issue that bothers me. The client is free on iOS, but it will cost you $299 per seat on a "traditional" Mac/PC because there's no client only version of FMP on these platforms. We don't need users to have scripting and layout editing abilities, why would we have to pay the same price to use it as a simple client? It would cost the same price to get an iPad mini (with the free FMP iOS client) for each user!
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Another eye strain 'upgrade' from Apple
Great - if that screen shot is indicative of the 'upgrade' then they've made FMP a difficult to read database app based on their difficult to read IOS7 UI - wonderful!
A load of garish white and ultra thin low contrast fonts - whoopee!
Another master stroke by Apple who seem to be losing their way by implementing change for changes sake in most of their recent products.
I can get around the difficult to read grey on grey UI in Mac OSX by using the excellent Sideeffects app (https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43078/sideeffects), but they are needlessly alienating a lot of users (like me) who are Apple fans (and Filemaker Pro users), with their obsession of making everything they produce more and more difficult to see and consequently harder to use and navigate.
Needless to say I'll be sticking with FMP v11.
Great - if that screen shot is indicative of the 'upgrade' then they've made FMP a difficult to read database app based on their difficult to read IOS7 UI - wonderful!
A load of garish white and ultra thin low contrast fonts - whoopee!
Another master stroke by Apple who seem to be losing their way by implementing change for changes sake in most of their recent products.
I can get around the difficult to read grey on grey UI in Mac OSX by using the excellent Sideeffects app (https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43078/sideeffects), but they are needlessly alienating a lot of users (like me) who are Apple fans (and Filemaker Pro users), with their obsession of making everything they produce more and more difficult to see and consequently harder to use and navigate.
Needless to say I'll be sticking with FMP v11.
FileMaker Pro is already a best of breed product that I wouldn't hesitate recommending to anyone who needs to take advantage of these powerful technologies. There's really nothing else like it in the marketplace and it's a big driver of Mac adoption in the enterprise.
I'm sure FileMaker Pro 13 will be an exceptional product. I can't wait to upgrade.
I'm sure FileMaker Pro 13 will be an exceptional product. I can't wait to upgrade.
Not true. The FileMaker license is floating. You only buy as many SIMULTANEOUS licenses as needed. If you have 20 employees but only 10 will ever be logged in at once, you buy 10 licenses.
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I agree that the lack of calendar integration is a short-coming. However, there are some great third party solutions. Zulu turns your FileMaker Server into a CalDAV server. It's awesome. And Subscribe generates read-only CalDAV calendars from FileMaker databases. There are plugins that allow you to sync with Outlook and Address Book as well.
Well Macrumors were right it got taken down. My reading was that they have a press release with an embargo on it so knew it was early
Of course most users just enter data and so don't need the programming ability of FMP. So this proposed change would dramatically cut their income while increasing their costs slightly as they now need to support an extra version. This would increase the initial entry costs as the full version would need to be increased in price to compensate to many times the current price.
BTW I see from the info in this article that they have increased their prices by 10% ish in the UK and even more for the education version. How can they justify this?
It's for real now: http://www.filemaker.com/
Looks like many of you got your wish for a free client (your browswer), but you will have to pay the $900 extra for the server to accept those connections. At least that's how I'm reading it.
Looks like many of you got your wish for a free client (your browswer), but you will have to pay the $900 extra for the server to accept those connections. At least that's how I'm reading it.
Bento a good solution
For some situations, including 3 flat databases I maintain, Bento is the ideal solution, especially in its easy of set-up of a database and item view template. It's a real bummer that FM is discontinuing Bento entirely.
For some situations, including 3 flat databases I maintain, Bento is the ideal solution, especially in its easy of set-up of a database and item view template. It's a real bummer that FM is discontinuing Bento entirely.
Bento data is easily imported into FileMaker... there's an option to import Bento data. I haven't had any issues. It just sucks having to reteach my folks to do FileMaker for their customer database because Bento was pretty straightforward and easy for them. I'm a little pissed off that they've chosen to discontinue it. Even though I prefer FMP... there was a definitely need for a simpler version.
Does this mean that one cannot set up an export to create flat files suitable for importing into another application?!
I had assorted uses for Bento, and am very annoyed it's not going be supported any more. My requirements for it were not complex enough to require Filemaker. Now I look at FM licensing requirements and see this annual renewal stuff and the pricetags (which it was annoying even to get their webiste to DIVUJLGE for God's sake), and I just think... . no way. No way!
I don't know what to do. Look around for affordable relational database apps and try their demos I guess.