At this stage Reactor still offers a nicer more integrated way of achieving the same result, but Reactor doesn’t work with iOS or WebDirect, whereas the new JavaScript commands do.Ĭlaris intend to make some of these widgets available in a further update coming soon via an “add-on” mechanism that will drop in ready-made controls, but for now they’re not available, however feel free to talk to us now as we have years of experience creating these interfaces in FileMaker. While this stuff is new as a native feature, we have been doing this for over 12 years with our Reactor plugin. Perhaps most exciting and visible will be new “widgets” that we can add to your FileMaker solutions: it will now be possible, thanks to new JavaScript commands, to embed complex widgets such as Calendars, Kanban boards, Gantt Charts and other diagramming, drawing, annotation and visualisation tools right into FileMaker solutions. Tag reading – Voice control – Artificial Intelligence User Interface Widgets On iOS mobile devices we get access to some more of the device technology such as NFC reading to be able to react to things like RFIDs and Bluetooth devices plus access to the Machine Learning engine in all Apple devices (including Macs) and Siri Shortcuts, opening up the opportunity to enable voice control of our apps. So what is actually new in this version? Well it’s pretty much as planned and revealed at DevCon in August last year. And the 'Advanced' part of the name has been dropped - it's just 'FileMaker Pro' now whether using the Advanced tools or not.

This first new version since rebranding to Claris, has a new icon: after 30-odd years of folders, FileMaker now sports the new Claris logo as it’s app icon. We think this is brilliant, we’ll see fixes and improvements much more quickly.

and the end of the major annual update!Īs Claris modernise their approach, they’ve pledged to move to smaller more frequent updates throughout the year - more of a continuous improvement approach. FileMaker 19 is here and with it we see a bunch of incremental improvements and some nice new features.

Filemaker 19 upgrade