Claris FileMaker Pro 19 Full ESD [PC/Mac Online Code]

I've used Filemaker for years and needed to update. The process was simple and fast.Highly recommend.

FileMaker Pro is an incredible piece of relational database software: both easy-to-use and — as you grow with it — ever more powerful. Properly speaking, FileMaker is a database-creation software: itself is not a database, but is instead a platform for creating databases, database systems and data-processing apps.It has it all in terms of the three levels: front-end, middleware and back-end. The integration is what makes FileMaker — in a software world where programs come and go at dizzying speeds — so durable and prized by many.It provides tools to easily create the front-end or user interface of your project. Objects like fields, labels, portals, buttons, popovers and relationships are a matter of drag and drop.Yet, for its middleware it has an incredible internal programming language, comprising scripts and calculations. Unlike C++, a compiled language, FileMaker's internal language is interpreted (like JavaScript). It is nowhere near as powerful as C++, which can talk to the CPU and memory, but for creating automation in databases, FileMaker's internal language is well-suited, if not near perfect.When online competitors promote their wares as "no code", one should bear in mind that this claimer is a two-edged sword. For example, a free application called NoteMaker 1.1.8 (check it out at https://notemakerdatabase.com) would be impossible without FileMaker's internal language. NoteMaker’s Scan button, for instance, has hundreds of lines of code in order to pick up on some errors in punctuation in your notes and correct them, such as capitalising the first word in a sentence.And yet to create a button that takes users to another page is as easy as a one-line code: Go to Layout. When magic happens upon clicking the button, coding can become highly addictive. Be warned.FileMaker's back-end (or storage facility) can hold millions of records in the one file.In all, we’re talking here about a seriously powerful database-creation software.Up to version 15, the focus for FileMaker has apparently been development for local hard drives. From version 16 onwards, the focus has shifted increasingly toward web-bound applications, with Claris (owners of FileMaker) providing cloud services and opening its internal language to a handful of JSON script steps.Version 19 has taken a big step forward in this direction. If you're a database developer keen on deploying your applications to the web or the cloud, v19 will not disappoint. In addition, v19 allows for fine-tuning apps for deployment to the iPhone and iPad (Claris is a subsidiary of Apple).FileMaker is a fantastic database-creation software. I have MS Access on my hard drive (it came as part of the Office suite, of which Word was most important to me). By all accounts, MS Access is undoubtedly very powerful. I launched it once, and twice, to have a look at it, but so far not a third time. That's the kind of thing FileMaker tends to do to its main desktop-based competitor. Whereas one may remain in awe of Access, it is FileMaker one may more likely fall in love with. (Please note: I've never used Access to create a database, so I don’t wish to pass judgement on it, only to say it tends not to draw me in).It comes down, again, to FileMaker’s superb integration of the three levels: user interface, coding and storage – all in the one file. At any one time, a user is a designer, a programmer and a storage allocator (that is, a creator of fields, the heart of a database’s storage system).The feeling is nothing less than empowering.