44 issues of The FileMaker Report available on the Internet Archives.
Interesting that there are still plenty of useful FileMaker nuggets to be found amongst these 30+ year old newsletters.
https://archive.org/details/thefilemakerreport
BTW... if anyone is interested in the hard copies that I scanned in for this collection, I will gladly send to anyone who would cover the shipping. Just PM me to arrange.
Truly interesting. The knowledge and methods described in some articles still apply.
Welcome @BobMinteer !
wow! I love the archive and that is a great resource.
A trip down memory lane! I worked with Mike Harris in 1995; he gave me my start in FileMaker, for which I am grateful...
@BobMinteer That's pretty awesome. Mind if I share the link with some folks?
Do you (or anyone) happen to remember when the Script Maker was introduced? I can't imagine a system without scripts, but apparently that was 'normal' back then.
https://support.claris.com/s/article/FileMaker-Pro-Version-Comparison?language=en_US
It looks like scripts were a FileMaker 6 addition. Unless that line about scripts isn't saying what it reads like.
I think that table just makes it possible to interpret that scripts were added in v.6, but only because the table doesn't go back further in time.
I recall doing scripting back in v.3. I'm tempted to say that it went back at least one prior version to that, but honestly, I can't recall that with clarity.
It used to be that when you created a new script, it would be pre-populated with steps that were something sequence that would be typical of creating a found set for getting ready to print. Maybe a Browse or Find step, followed by something like a Sort. Can't remember the steps anymore, and can't remember what version that stopped happening in...
@jeremyb Absolutely share! I was offered the paper versions of these and immediately scanned them in because I thought there would be interest.
I was trying to find images of earlier than 6 to confirm what it was... but, ran out of time.
I used to have screen shots of all the versions, but they were lost in the great HDD catastrophe of 2016.
I'm also pretty sure I used scripts in version 2.1, the first version I bought (as an addon to MS Office Mac)
Absolutely. I have installers all the way back to 3. Just no license key or vm to run them on. LOL
I started with v3 and it included scripting. I'm pretty sure that v2 did too. I only used v2 several times before getting a copy of v3 so my memory of it isn't good.
However, I think that the Script Maker UI may have been a later introduction.
Was the scripting a list of steps? Or was it a dialog which checkboxes?
The dialog of checkboxes may have been v2.
Before Script Maker it was drag-n-drop from a list of script steps into your script. There was some type ahead that allowed you to jump between sections but the process was laborious. You spent a lot of time hammering the arrow keys.