In addition to linking to public Web sites, the FileMaker Web Viewer is also designed to interact with Web-enabled commercial and custom solutions from within its FileMaker database solution. The site offers examples of ways to integrate Web Viewers into your own FileMaker databases.Ī Web Viewer Sample Database is included in FileMaker Pro 8.5, and the company also announced the FileMaker Learning Center, which includes video tutorials, how-to guides and other resources. To help small businesses get their minds in tune with the Web integration concept, FileMaker constructed the Web Viewer Gallery. You can also create links that will search through Web sites and display information based on data in a database, according to FileMaker. To help you you get started, FileMaker said it has added built-in links for many popular Web sites. To use the Web Viewer Control layout object, you enter the Web address or point to a field containing the Web address. How you will implement FileMaker’s new Web Viewer Control feature for practical benefits is still a bit hazy, but some uses include adding street maps based on a customer address field, tracking shipping status and monitoring stock performance. With today’s release of FileMaker Pro 8.5, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based software vendor is looking to make integrating live Web data with its database application a point-and-click process. In the Web 2.0 era, why should the data in your database records be static? It shouldn’t, if you ask database vendor FileMaker.

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