What’s new with Claris FileMaker

The latest is the greatest.

Discover the latest feature capabilities, performance enhancements, and security upgrades to the 2024 release of Claris FileMaker.

Artificial intelligence

Quickly add new AI capabilities to your apps to get more value from your existing data — safely and responsibly. Learn more

Semantic search.

Perform Semantic Find enables semantic similarity ranking from your data on both text and images. You can ask questions of your data — even if you don’t know exactly what to ask for or exactly how to find it — and get the answers you need.

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Control over data.

Support for public or local models gives you control over data so you can trust your AI implementation. Set up integrations between your apps and the models of your choice from OpenAI, Cohere, or your preferred open-source large language model (LLM).

Expanded platform support for AI.

Expands on Claris history of platform support for AI with new native AI Script steps for model integrations and new AI calculation functions.

More security, less hassle

FileMaker Server 2024 protects your apps and data. Deploy with more confidence. Learn more

Let’s Encrypt.

New Let’s Encrypt support offers simpler setup and better control for managing certificates. FileMaker Server 2024 now includes scripts, allowing you to use Let’s Encrypt to create, renew, and import certificates for public-facing FileMaker Server instances.

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Expanded integration and security.

Don't hold back! Leverage the full power of FileMaker Data API or OData to integrate custom apps with other systems — now with no data limits on FileMaker Server. In addition, admins can also enable HTTPS Tunneling across the platform.

All schedules in one view.

FileMaker Server Admin Console consolidates schedules in one view so administrators can better avoid automation conflicts. Plus, administrators now have more control and flexibility to support apps and growing teams.

Improved app life cycle management.

FileMaker Server Admin API now supports scriptable file upload and download. FileMaker Developer Tool can rename and upload files. Server also helps developers with improved app versioning.

Enhanced capabilities

Build faster apps with new script steps and functions that better leverage Data API, JSON, and transactions. Learn more

300+ improvements

As a direct result of developer testing and feedback, the latest version of FileMaker implements more than 300 performance, compatibility, and reliability improvements.

Developer quality of life improvements.

Revert transactions in subscripts is more responsive to business logic and error handling so you can simplify your scripts.

New JSONMakeArray function simplifies calculations for defining richer script parameters.

New Open Quickly shortcut gives you fast access to elements you’re working on: files, databases, layouts, fields, tables, table occurrences and scripts.

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New option to add DDR_INFO element to XML file, which provides additional information that’s useful to third-party tools, so you can analyze your your custom app.

Upgrades for better, faster apps.

Execute Data API now supports write operations, giving you direct, faster scripting against data without having to open extra windows or files.

Layout calculation references are maintained when renaming fields and tables.

The Perform Script on Server script step can now be executed from the Scripting engine on FileMaker Server.

Full OData 4.01 compliance simplifies integration. Now with no data limits.

Mobility

FileMaker Go captures any data, wherever you’re working. Learn more

One-tap app access.

Launch your most important app right when you start FileMaker Go, or link directly through new widgets. Also, launch websites and apps in Safari with one tap from your FileMaker Go app.

All data types supported.

Capture any binary file type. Import more text data formats including .csv. GetLiveTextAsJSON provides metadata, so your app scripts extract text from images more accurately. Now supporting 18 languages.

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New enhancements make development even easier.

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Wow stakeholders with semantic search for images.

Discover how to add semantic search of images to enhance the user experience. Also learn about new FileMaker Server updates.