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Clipboard Explorer Developer Assistant Dialogs Unlimited Hands-Free Printer Keyboard and Mouse Layout Painter Menu Popper SQL Runner Tweak UI Money and Numbers Script Scheduler Super Variables

News

Jan 31st, 2010: 2empowerFM 1.51 maintenance release displays more unicode characters on PC and fixes a few bugs.

December 27th , 2009: Developer Assistant has a new look and is easier to use, with many bugs fixed and new documentation. Many Plug-ins are now compatible with FileMaker Server. Improved the progress bar and the look of menus on Macintosh dialogs. The EULA dialog was removed and usage reporting is off by default. Fixed crashes related to hotkey use and fixed an incompatibility with certain plug-ins from other vendors.

Featured Plug-ins for FileMaker

Developer Assistant

Save time, FileMaker Developers!

Find a string in any script, field, table, or dialog box list.
Searching in scripts opens each script for you!
Instantly evaluate expressions you highlight.
Move groups of list lines around quickly.

Dialogs Unlimited

At last, dialogs without limits.

Add any number of buttons, menus, fields, checkboxes, and more.
Items added arrange like words on a line or can be sized and placed precisely.
Control the style of dialog text including bold, italic, color, font, bullets, and so on.
Show the progress bar dialog so users know how much longer your script will take.

Hands-Free Printer

Print without clicking a thing.

Select your printer, set any printer option, then print - all from a script with no user interaction needed.
The only plug-in that sets any option in both the Print and Print Setup dialogs.
Your system's default printer and printer settings are never changed.

Layout Painter

Recolor and draw on any part of your layout.

Draw lines, polygons, tabs, text, and more, anywhere.
Use drawn items as graphs, pictures, conditional buttons, grey text in FileMaker fields, and so on.
Change the color of layout areas to indicate the type of a record or warn of a condition.

Additional FileMaker Plug-ins

Clipboard Explorer

The clipboard is now your playground.

Grab something you've copied and store it in a database for easy searching and organization.
Grab FileMaker scripts, layout objects, HTML pages, Word documents, and tons of other clipboard formats.
Search and replace in FileMaker scripts you've grabbed, then put the altered scripts back on the clipboard.
Anything put back on the clipboard can be pasted normally.

Keyboard and Mouse

Do more with your mouse and keyboard.

Assign hotkeys to any or all layouts.
Simulate keyboard typing.
Hotkeys can run or continue scripts, set variables, or type any key combination.
Discover where the mouse was last clicked - now anything can be clickable, even in preview mode.
Change the mouse pointer - make it an hourglass while you're busy.

Menu Popper

Easy pop-up menus... anywhere.

Turn FileMaker "value lists", comma or tab separated values, or almost any other list of items into a menu.
Menus can have any number of sub-menus and separator lines between items.
Easily turn groups of buttons on your FileMaker layouts into one simple pop-up menu.

SQL Runner

The power of SQL for everyone.

Run SQL commands to read or write FileMaker data without changing layouts or creating FileMaker table relationships.
Perform field validations that can't be done with other methods.
Create or destroy FileMaker tables from any calculation.

Text Toolkit

Do anything you want with text.

Check if an email address is valid, format digits into a phone number, capitalize the start of each sentence, and so on.
Cut a large block of text down into a small, unique "hash string".
Compare hash strings to quickly check if large blocks of text are identical or use hash strings to safely store passwords.
Use advanced perl-compatible "Regular Expressions" without installing anything but this plug-in.

Tweak UI

Your user interface, Your way.

Simplify the Sort Order window - fewer options means fewer confused users.
Show the Open Remote dialog when FileMaker starts.
Hide the Find or script Continue/Cancel buttons so users don't click them acidentally.

Free FileMaker Plug-ins

Money and Numbers

Format and add padding to numbers.
Change numeric currency values into English words.

Script Scheduler

Run a script from any calculation.
Schedule scripts to run at a certain time.

Super Variables

Get and set variables with global, database, window, or script scope.
Change variable values at any point in any calculation or script step.
Easily parse multiple values in script parameters.

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