An update for FileMaker Pro 11 and FileMaker Pro 11 Advanced was released today. You should download it to take advantage of all the changes and updated features:

New in FileMaker Pro 11.0v2

Changes in:

• Field Definition
• Recovery
• Snapshot Link
• Scripting
• Quick Find
• Value Lists
• Printing (rotated text issue)
• Runtime (Internet access issue; missing Microsoft Visual C++ libraries issue)
• Plug-ins
• General (empty merge variables issue; portal flicker (Windows), and others)
• Excel Import (Japanese furigana issue)
• IWP
• xDBC

For detailed information read the release notes at the FileMaker Support pages. There you will find also links to the appropriate update files for the different FileMaker versions.

As a developer you might need a timer in your database. In that case you might find this feature helpful. You can create timer, as many as you like. Use them for benchmarks, to log import and export times, or to keep track of user log-in times.

Stop Watch

Each timer works like a little stopwatch. You can …

• start it,
• stop it,
• restart/stop it again,
• read the elapsed time,
• and reset/remove it.

This is accomplished with custom functions and a global variable:

• timer( name; action )
• param( key; value )
• param.get( key; params )
• param.delete( key; params )
• $$timer

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