Dina and Bob have returned from the 10th Annual FileMaker Developer Conference, in Phoenix. At this year’s conference, FileMaker, Inc. announced the release of FileMaker Pro 8.0, a significant upgrade of their award-winning suite of database products. FileMaker 8 features a robust set of new features that greatly enhances its already strong performance. In addition to offering significant speed gains for certain common functions, FileMaker 8 also offers:

– Automatic generation of PDFs and Excel spreadsheets
– Sending of Email directly from the database
– Type-ahead/Auto-complete in just about any field
– Pop-up date picker (calendar) on any date field
– Enter a day of week into a date search field and see all matching dates
– Real-time visual spell-checking
– Tool tips/help pop-ups
– Support for mouse wheels
– Find Matching Records based on the data selected in a field
– Custom menus
…and a host of new development improvements that make it possible for us to build better, faster solutions for your business. In fact, this update offers more significant developer tools than any previous release, and streamlines the development process in ways never before possible.