We are pleased to make a pre-release version available of Clip Manager version 4. Clip Manager 4 is an application that allows you to store FileMaker fields, tables, scripts, script steps, custom functions and layouts in an easy-to-use library.
A year ago, our development team started from scratch with the development of Clip Manager 4 to make the best and most powerful release since the first version. Clip Manager 4 was built for FileMaker Pro 11.
What's new in Clip Manager 4 ?
New fresh user interface
Growl Support
Clip View shows a clip in a more readable format in addition to the XML view
Clip Info via a new Inspector Window
Improved XML Editor
Clip Manager Status Menu Bar Item
Improved History
Snippets
Occurrence Selector floating palette
Spotlight Search
Custom Function conflict resolver
Support for the new XMFN format
Automatic conversion of older Clip Manager formats
Set clip in Clipboard without opening the clip, using the contextual menu
Download the pre-release for Mac OS X here. Updates to the app will automatically become available via the update mechanism.
FileMaker DevCon in San Diego
myFMbutler will again have a booth at this year's conference. Those who are attending may want to drop by the booth to get a preview of Clip Manager 4.
Also, during DevCon, myFMbutler products will be offered at a 25% discount when customers use the coupon code 'DEVCON10' in the myFMbutler web store. That way you can purchase Clip Manager 3 at a discount now and get a free upgrade to version 4.
This is a simultaneous release of DoSQL 1.4 for FileMaker Pro 11 and DoSQL 1.3.1 for FileMaker Pro 10 and earlier.
Version 1.3.1 uses the older FileMaker SQL engine, version 1.4 uses the new engine in FileMaker Pro 11.
About some of the changes in this version:
1.4 solves the problems under FileMaker 11 with SQL statements that feed the result of a SELECT into an INSERT
Fields starting with an underscore "_" have to be quoted
e.g. mFMb_DoSQL ( "select \"_k1\" from myTable" )
Number values cannot be quoted: if you have a number field, you cannot write or update it with a single-quoted value. '1' is forbidden, 1 is OK. Use NULL for empty fields.
Date, time and timestamp fields have to be casted. Simply single quoting a date doesn't work anymore. It's good practice to replace a single quoted date with
"CAST ( " & mFMb_DoSQL_Quote ( Year ( theParameter ) & "-" & Month ( theParameter ) & "-" & Day ( theParameter) ) & " AS DATE )" in a custom function.
Error reporting with the new engine is different. The new engine now returns error values 8309, 8310 and sometimes a few others. The first indicating a semantics error, the other a syntax error. There is also additional error reporting in the FM11 SQL engine. You can get that information using the mFMb_DoSQL_lastresult function. A list of the possible FQL errors is included in the DoSQL download.
For more details about the new SQL engine and the SQL statements that are supported, please refer to the FileMaker documentation available here.
We just released a new version 2.2 of our plug-in specifically for the Belgian market: eID & SIS. It is a plug-in that allows you to read data from the Belgian eID identity card or the Belgian SIS social security card directly into a FileMaker database.
More product info on the eID & SIS product page
A free demo version is available from our downloads page.
The product is available for purchase starting today. Upgrades for users of 1.x are free of charge.
PrinterSwitch "Capture & Restore", or the ability to store and later retrieve printer settings like page orientation, paper size and paper source, has been available on Windows since version 1.5.
The recently released PrinterSwitch 2.0 now offers these options on Mac OS X as well. In this article, we'll focus on how you can implement this.
We just released PrinterSwitch 2.0.1. This is mainly a bug fix update.
What's new ?
Solves an issue where the "Print Setup" script step was not working properly
Fixed bug with FileMaker 11 record selection dialog - when using capture and restore, you can now determine whether to print the "Current record" or "all "Records being browsed"" by using "Specify print options" in the "Print" script step. When using a restore, PrinterSwitch will only use the FileMaker record selection data defined in the "Specify print options" - all other (FileMaker 11) printer information will be ignored
[Mac OS X] Fixed bug with manual printing and "Save as PDF". You can now create PDFs manually, even when PrinterSwitch has selected a printer. You can now even capture and restore "Save as PDF…", although the PDF name is not variable.
[Windows] Solved privilege related issues on Windows 7, Vista and Server 2008.
[Windows] Should no longer require changes to DEP settings
We just released PrinterSwitch 2.0, a major upgrade to our plug-in for managing printers in your FileMaker solutions.
What's new in 2.0 ?
PrinterSwitch 2.0 is fully compatible with FileMaker Pro 11
[Mac OS X only] Added Capture / Restore functionality for page orientation, paper size and paper source - this feature was already available in the Windows version
[Windows only] Integrated version 4 of the Amyuni PDF driver for compatibility with Windows 7 and improved compatibility with Windows Vista (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions)
Added PrSw_VersionAutoUpdate function for use with FMS Autoupdate
Changed installer so the plug-in is automatically installed in the FMS AutoUpdate location
Check the purchase page for upgrade pricing information.
Customers who purchased PrinterSwitch 1.7 after January 1st, 2010 are entitled to a free upgrade to version 2.0.
