FileMaker Server 5.5 can now require Windows Authentication from Mac OS FileMaker Pro clients when they connect to a server on a Windows 2000 domain.
The Send Mail script step now supports the Mail application in Mac OS X.
In Mac OS X, FileMaker Pro 5.5 requires system version 10.0.4 or later.
The FileMaker Pro 5.5 installer registers FMP5 as an Internet protocol. Users can remotely open a shared database using a URL. The URL should follow this format: [<][URL:]FMP5://[[password@]netaddress]/databasename[>] The square brackets ("[]") indicate optional parameters. URLs are not allowed to contain spaces in them, so the URL encoding for the space character in database names is the plus sign ("+").
Fixed a problem that caused FileMaker Pro 5.5 to fail to recognize non-period decimal separators in Windows 98.
Corrected an issue in which a user could access a restricted layout when opening a shared database remotely using a blank password (defined as “no password”).
Resolved a conflict that prevented FileMaker Pro 5.5 from launching in Windows 2000 Professional with some Yamaha MIDI drivers installed.
FileMaker Pro 5.5 could quit unexpectedly when performing a Set Field script step while in Find Mode, if the Set Field calculation utilized the ValueListItems function and referenced a value list based on a relationship. This has been corrected.
Fixed a problem that caused FileMaker Pro 5.5 to crash when saving a Calculation Field definition containing 64 or more levels of nested expressions.
Fixed in issue that caused a Recover to fail in Windows for target files with long path names.
Corrected an issue that prevented some changes to a value list’s type if the value list contained a reference to a missing file.
Selecting a custom order in the Define Relationships or Define Value Lists dialog while creating new Relationships or Value Lists could cause the list of Relationships or Value Lists to be displayed incorrectly. This has been resolved.
Corrected a problem that disabled the Scan Data buttons in the Import Field Mapping dialog when importing tab or comma separated text files, Basic files or Merge files with greater than 500 records.
When using keyboard shortcuts to move between the document window and the object size palette in layout mode, the keyboard focus is now restored to the last field you used in the palette.
In the Mac OS, you could not edit a Global field using AppleScript if the record had limited access privileges. This has been corrected.
In the Mac OS, FileMaker Pro 5.5 would attempt to establish an Internet connection at launch if Remote Access was configured to connect to the Internet automatically. FileMaker Pro now attempts a connection only when required by Web Companion or Remote Data Access Companion.
Fixed a problem that generated an unexpected error when entering non-numeric data via Instant Web Publishing into a field defined to contain strictly numeric data. This error occurred only if Japanese was selected as the Instant Web Publishing language.
FileMaker Pro 5.5v2 will now install and allow online registration on Mac OS X systems with 2GB or more of RAM.
In Mac OS X 10.1, fixed a problem in which a print script step executed from another file would print the report using the wrong layout.
In Mac OS X, Cut, Copy and Paste are no longer disabled in many FileMaker Pro dialogs.
In Mac OS X, the Status(CurrentSystemVersion) function now returns 10.1 or 10.0 instead of 16.1 or 16.0.
When selecting a voice to use with the Speak script step, FileMaker Pro will now play a sample of the voice.
Fixed a problem with the Send Mail script step. When selecting names from an address book in the Specify Mail dialog, upper-ASCII characters such as é were not copied correctly.
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