"To help businesses manage their workflow, we need to stitch together multiple technologies. There's also a graphical option for adding certificates to apps (in previous versions that meant working with the command line).įileMaker Go also supports the new app extensions in iOS, which he says is a natural fit. FileMaker Go now masks passwords as you type them in, which was another feature customers were asking for, and there's better SSL support - including warnings when you connect to a site with an invalid security certificate and support for a wider range of certificates, especially those used in educational organizations. This gives businesses an extra level of control without adding inconvenience for users. "Now you can log in, not just to the FileMaker Go app on the device but to the custom app you've written in FileMaker," LeCates says. Supporting Touch ID was a common customer request. There's also support for barcode scanning with the camera, so the same app can read delivery labels and send receipts. "We added GPS support when that came to iOS, so users could attach custom workflows and build apps for workers on delivery trucks," he says. "When we took the container fields that you could use for images and movies and other blobs of data in FileMaker and added the functionality so you could use them to capture a signature in your app on an iPad, with nothing to do but checking a box in FileMaker, we had probably the fastest uptake of any single feature we've ever released."
Supporting the native APIs is what makes FileMaker Go popular, LeCates believes. That's not about helping employees work around official processes, Andrew LeCates of FileMaker points out, but about acknowledging that the formal processes don't cover everything.įileMaker 15 adds new iOS features like 3D Touch, iBeacons, and Touch ID in FileMaker Go (available for free on the App Store), and adds support for smartphone browsers in WebDirect.
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