However, the full potential of this is much broader, ranging from monitoring your competitors’ websites to building up academic research notes. Several site setups are provided as presets, including FedEx parcel tracking, Google Maps, Wikipedia and a few others. This means you can, for example, automatically look up the map for any address in a contacts file or display a graph of share prices in a database of investments. This can be entered as fixed text or – and this is what makes it so useful – as the result of a calculation based on any field in your database. A dialog then opens, in which you can specify the URL.

To add a web viewer to a FileMaker layout, you simply drag the Web Viewer tool where you want the object’s bounding box to go. The underlying technology comes from IE6, or Safari under Mac OS X, so anything those browsers can display will appear exactly as if seen in the browser. The displayed page is fully functional in the sense that all links, Flash animations, fillable forms, JavaScripts and so on operate normally. This allows you to embed a web browser window as a layout object. Although there are several significant changes in this release, the headline feature is the new Web Viewer control.

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