2empowerFM Plugin Family

Developer Assistant

Save time, FileMaker Developers!

Find a search term in any script, field, table, or in lists of functions, layouts, and so on.
Searching in scripts opens each script for you!
Instantly evaluate expressions you highlight.
Move groups of list lines around quickly.
Mac users: Make Home/End keys move to start/end of line.

Dialog Master

Dialogs for Beginners and Masters.

Add any number of controls, including stylized text, multi-level menus, and so on.
Beginners need not worry - controls arrange themselves according to Apple and Microsoft User Interface Guidelines.
Masters may adjust control size, alignment, number of columns, and so on.
Use styles in dialog text including bold, italic, color, font, bullets, margins, and more.

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.

Menu Popper

Show 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.

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.

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.

SQL Runner

Run SQL commands to read or write FileMaker data without changing layouts or creating FileMaker table relationships.
Where scripts can't be called, such as in a field validation or auto-enter calculation, an SQL query can do things that would normally require a multiple-step script.
Use an SQL query in a calculated field to generate dynamic pop-up lists.
Create or destroy FileMaker tables from any calculation.

Text Toolkit

Use advanced, Perl-compatible "regular expressions" without installing anything but this plug-in.
Use regular expressions to 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.
Do just about anything you want with text.

Clipboard Explorer

Retrieve something you've copied to the slipboard and store it in a database for easy searching and organization.
Retrieve FileMaker scripts, layout objects, HTML pages, Word documents, and tons of other clipboard formats.
Put anything previously retrieved back on the clipboard, then paste it wherever you originally copied it from.
Search and replace in FileMaker script steps you've copied, then paste the altered script steps back into your FileMaker script.

Super Variables

Use Super Variables in FileMaker 7 that work as native variables in FileMaker 8 and later.
Get and set variables with global, database, window, or script scope.
Easily access named variables passed in a FileMaker script parameter.

Script Scheduler

Money and Numbers