Installation and New Features Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Before you begin
- About FileMaker documentation
- Customer Support and Knowledge Base
- Update notification
- New version notification
- About the license key
- Requirements for features in Windows
- Requirements for features in OS X
- Features not supported in Windows
- Features not supported in OS X
- Converting the trial version to the full version of FileMaker Pro
- Upgrading FileMaker Pro from a previous version
- Opening files from previous versions
- Updating your User Dictionary
- Installing under a volume license
- Chapter 2 Installing FileMaker Pro in Windows
- Installation notes
- Installing FileMaker Pro
- Registering FileMaker Pro
- Installing FileMaker Pro from the command line
- About installing Bonjour
- About installing the Microsoft .NET Framework
- Where files are stored on your hard disk
- Uninstalling, modifying, or repairing FileMaker Pro
- Changing the FileMaker Pro cache size
- Chapter 3 Installing FileMaker Pro in OS X
- Chapter 4 New features
- New layout styles and theme saving
- Improved layout creation
- Improved layout design tools and controls
- Sharing and collaboration
- Integration with other applications and data sources
- Improved performance and usability
- Script steps, script triggers, and functions
- Changed and removed features
- FileMaker Pro 13 Advanced
- Chapter 5 Where to go from here
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About installing the Microsoft .NET
Framework
The Microsoft .NET Framework provides common functionality for many
Windows applications. You need to have a specific version of .NET
installed on your system for FileMaker
Pro to run.
If .NET is not installed, when you start FileMaker Pro an error message
appears and FileMaker
Pro will not run.
During the FileMaker Pro installation, the installer uses the following
process:
1 If the required version of .NET isn’t detected, the installer alerts you and
prompts you to install .NET. The .NET installer requires Internet access
to download the necessary files. If you choose not to install .NET at this
time, you can install it manually later, but you will not be able to use
FileMaker Pro until .NET is installed.
1 If the required version of .NET is detected, the installer doesn’t alert
you and doesn’t install .NET.
To install .NET manually:
1. Open the FileMaker Pro installation folder.
2. Open the Files folder, then open the DotNet folder.
3. Double-click the icon.
4. Follow the onscreen instructions to install .NET.
Where files are stored on your hard disk
The FileMaker Pro installer copies files to several folders on your hard
disk, depending on the installation options you choose and your
operating system. If you performed a command line installation and
specified an install log file, you can view the install log file, which lists the
location of each installed file.