Ok. So let's move on here. The Data Viewer has also been enhanced. So if we pull
up the Data Viewer, you notice it has two tabs. Ok. Well, what does this extra
tab do? You had the Watch tab before where you can add in all the stuff you
wanted. You can add in any kind of expression you want here but the current is
really the neat thing that has been added. Let's watch what it does because
it's better just to show it happening. And so we'll pull up the Script Debugger,
both of these, than I'm going to go into ScriptMaker and perform the script
again; the insert media. And you notice right away what happens here. I didn't
have to put anything in here. The current lists all of the fields and the
variables that are inside that script. So you don't have to add them into the
watch. I spent so much time adding them in here everything time I wanted to
debug a script. This makes so much sense that there's a field or a script
variable in here automatically put in there so you can see it; so you don't
have to type all that stuff in. So I really, really love this feature. So we'll
cancel that right there. Now the Data Viewer also authenticates for sufficient
privileges so that it's really secure at this point. The Database Design Report
or DDR has also been updated. And basically to include all the new FileMaker 9
features such as: External SQL Tables, the supplemental fields go along with
that; Script Groups, Default Tab and Width Properties, Conditional Formatting,
Auto-Resize and Layout Objects, new Web Viewer options, the Pen PDF Script
option and all the new calculation functions. It's important for it to include
all that so when you make a report you can see all this new information in it.
And now we have a link to the PHP Assistant. You'll see it under the Tools Menu
and you'll notice that it's dimmed and that's because I'm not running a
FileMaker 9 solution that's hosted on FileMaker Server 9. If I was then I
would have access to this and I could choose this. It would launch the PHP
Assistant to help me custom web publish with PHP. In addition, along with
FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced you have a new extended privilege, which you can see
under Manage; and then we want to go into Accounts and Privileges; and then move
into Extended Privileges and you'll see the FM PHP Extended Privilege. Now you
need this so that people can access a solution from a web browser using the PHP.
If you don't have this option set to every person that gets access to it, well then
they won't be able to access it through the web, through PHP. This is the same
as FMAP, which allows them to access it over the network, a really good way to
limit how people can go ahead and access your solution. Maybe they only want to
access through the network; the local area network. Well, give them access
through this extended privilege. So if you don't give them access FM PHP to
their account, to their privilege set, well then they just wont be able to have
access. So this is a necessary addition once they added the ability to do PHP
inside of FileMaker. So we'll discard all those changes and that's about it.
There's not a ton of new features. In fact there's really no new features except
for this PHP Assistant option in FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced. All of them are
simply enhancements to the existing feature set.
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