FileMaker Go is available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. For more information about the new features and changes shared with FileMaker Pro, see FileMaker Pro Release Notes.

Version 21.0.1 – June 2024

New features and enhancements

Opening custom apps

• To automatically open a custom app whenever you start FileMaker Go, you can now use Open at Startup. Either touch and hold a custom app icon and choose Open at Startup, or in Settings, turn on Open File at Startup and enter a file path. See Open a file at startup in FileMaker Go Help.

• To open your favorite custom apps from your device's Home Screen, you can now add the FileMaker Go Favorites widget. See Work with files and hosts in FileMaker Go Help.

Script steps and functions

• Using the Import Records script step, you can now import files in .csv, .tab, .mer, and .dbf formats in FileMaker Go. See Importing data in FileMaker Go in FileMaker Go Development Guide.

• The Open URL script step can now open a page in the external web browser, instead of within FileMaker Go, if the new In external browser option is turned on. See Open URL in FileMaker Pro Help.

• The Configure Local Notification script step now includes the Show when app in foreground option. The new option allows a notification alert to be displayed even when FileMaker Go is in the foreground. See Configure Local Notification in FileMaker Pro Help.

• With support for Live Text in Thai and Vietnamese languages added in iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma, the GetLiveText and GetLiveTextAsJSON functions now support these languages as well.

General

• Image files in HEIC format are now supported in container fields.

• Secure connection tunneling can now be enabled over port 443 instead of port 5003 between FileMaker Go and FileMaker Pro. See Enable HTTPS tunneling to hosts in FileMaker Go Help and FileMaker HTTPS tunneling in FileMaker Server Help.

• All Claris FileMaker 2024 products have a new icon. Look for it in the apps, installers, .fmp12 file icons, and more.

  

iOS App SDK

• Building iOS apps using the iOS App SDK for FileMaker 21.0.1 requires at a minimum the iOS 17 SDK included in Xcode 15.

Addressed issues

Context menu

• When you touch and hold a custom app displayed as a large icon in My Apps, Favorites, Recents, or Hosts, the context menu didn't open. Therefore, you couldn't perform actions like signing in with an account different from the one saved in your keychain.

• In My Apps, Recents, and Hosts, when you touch and hold a custom app, the context menu displayed both Favorite and Unfavorite actions, of which only one was possible.

• In Favorites and Recents, when you touch and hold a hosted custom app, the context menu displayed Share and Rename actions, which weren't possible for hosted apps.

• On the On My iPhone or On My iPad screen, when you touched and held a file that was not a custom app, the context menu included the Sign In action instead of the Open action.

Value lists

• When you tapped a field that was set up to auto-complete using a value list, the value list was not displayed.

• When signed in with a privilege set that allows modifying all value lists, a FileMaker Go user was not allowed to add items to a value list.

Container fields

• When attempting to start an audio recording from a container field, the process had to be canceled and then restarted for the recording to begin.

• On iPad, when you copied a CSV file and pasted it into a container field, the text in the CSV file was pasted into the field, not the file.

• After you tapped a container field and selected a photo to add from the Photos app, FileMaker Go stopped responding under certain circumstances.

• When a video file in a container field was set to start playing embedded in the field, the video started in full screen.

Onscreen keyboard

• The onscreen keyboard disappeared, then reappeared when using Enter to leave a number field.

• Concealed edit box fields incorrectly displayed the onscreen keyboard when the onscreen keyboard display option was disabled.

General

• When you weren't signed in to iCloud, the On My iPhone or On My iPad screen didn't display the Files icon, so you couldn't transfer a file to FileMaker Go on your device.

• Under certain conditions including low power mode and low memory, some actions such as taking a photo using the camera from within FileMaker Go or inserting an image or file in a container field caused some layout objects to no longer be visible.

• Imported HEIC images converted to JPG were sometimes incorrectly exported as HEIC images.

• The Configure Local Notification script step failed to run when system notifications were disabled and failed to send the NotificationNotAllowed value in the script parameter.

Version 20

APIs, technologies, or features to be deprecated

As FileMaker Go evolves, the list of supported technologies, APIs, and features will change. As part of this evolution, certain operating systems versions, hardware, and features may be deprecated in favor of newer ones. Although deprecation does not mean the immediate deletion of an item, you should migrate your solution away from deprecated technologies, because these technologies may be removed in a future version of the product.

For the latest information about deprecated APIs, technologies, and features, search the Knowledge Base.

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