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Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:40:26 -0600
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Boulder, Colorado - July 19, 2010 - New Millennium Communications 
announces an upgrade to SecureFM for Windows, the premier security 
plug-in for FileMaker Pro. SecureFM is the best solution available to 
protect your data, customize FileMaker Pro's menus, implement script 
triggers, and provide better control of FileMaker Pro's behavior.

*** SecureFM 11 for Windows is fully compatible with FileMaker Pro 
8.5 through 11 - including Pro, Advanced, and Runtime. ***

The Mac version of SecureFM 11 will be available soon.

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FileMaker Security

- Disable individual menu items and their keyboard equivalents
- Disable items at startup or on-the-fly (mode-specific, user-specific)
- Remove or disable entire menus
- Disable the Minimize, Maximize, Restore, and Close boxes
- Prevent resizing or repositioning of FileMaker windows

Customized FileMaker Menus and Environments

- Rename menus and menu items
- Menu items can trigger your own scripts
- Trigger scripts on context change (file, table occurrence, layout, or window)
- Trigger scripts from a calculation
- Assign custom hot keys that call your scripts, using any modifier 
keys (or no modifiers)
- SEVERAL other powerful functions...

Dynamic Menu Control

SecureFM can automatically change FileMaker menus, hot keys, and 
other settings when the context changes - by file, table occurrence, 
layout, or window - all without running a script!

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=== SecureFM vs. FileMaker's Script Triggers and Custom Menus ===

Script Triggers in Calculations
- SecureFM: Can trigger scripts from within a calculation. For 
example, a branch of a calculation's Case statement can trigger a 
script. Implications: script triggers don't need to be defined for 
each layout or each field, but rather can be defined in a central 
location (the field definition of an unstored calculation).
- FMP: Script triggers need to be associated separately with each 
layout or each instance of a field on a layout.

Script Triggers by Context Change
- SecureFM: Dynamically trigger a script when the user changes the 
active file, layout, table occurrence, window, or mode.  The script 
trigger can apply globally or just to specific layouts, windows, etc. 
Any newly created file, TO, layout, or window is automatically 
included.
- FMP: Can only trigger scripts based on layout change (not table 
occurrence, window, or file changes). Layout script triggers are only 
associated with specific layouts, not globally.  Each new layout must 
be manually linked.

Script Trigger Compatibility
- SecureFM: SecureFM script triggers will work in FileMaker 7 through 11.
- FMP: Script triggers only work in FileMaker 10 and 11.

Universal Variables
- SecureFM: Can set and evaluate variables which are available across 
all files, no need to pass their values as Script Parameters or 
Script Results.
- FMP: Variables are only either local or global (limited to a single file).

Modifiable Menus
- SecureFM: Disable or modify ALL menus, keyboard shortcuts, and 
window buttons.
- Custom Menus: Can't modify Format, Scripts, or Windows menus.

Menus for Multiple Files
- SecureFM: Define menus centrally. You can define sets of menus to 
apply to all files open, or to specific files, table occurrences, 
layouts, and/or windows.
- Custom Menus: Menu sets must be created file-by-file. Can only 
invoke them by layout or initiated by script.

Dynamic Linking of Menus to Context
- SecureFM: Can tie menus to context elements (file, table 
occurrence, layout, window). Much easier to implement and more 
reliable, since menus can apply to new layouts automatically.
- Custom Menus: Menus can be changed only by script or by linking to 
each layout. If using the layout method, this needs to be done 
manually for each new layout.

Dynamic Menu Grouping
- SecureFM: Create custom menus for groups of files, table 
occurrences, layouts, and/or windows that share some common element 
in their names (using GREP syntax).
- Custom Menus: Nothing equivalent.

Layout Mode
- SecureFM: Allows you to define menus in ALL modes, including Layout mode.
- Custom Menus: NO control of menus in Layout mode.

Quit / Exit
- SecureFM: Allows you to disable, rename and script the Quit/Exit menu item.
- Custom Menus: NO control over Quit/Exit.

Hot Keys
- SecureFM: Remap ANY key - with or without a modifier like Cmd or 
Ctrl - to call your own custom scripts! Conditionally apply to any or 
all files, TO's, layouts, or windows; no additional work required 
when adding new layouts.
- Custom Menus: MUST have modifiers. NOT dynamic by context. MUST be 
linked to menu items. MUST change custom menus to change active 
keyboard shortcuts.
- OnLayoutKeystroke: Must be manually linked to each layout. 
Therefore, you must remember to manually connect the script trigger 
to each newly created layout and revisit each layout when if you wish 
to change or remove the script.

Menubar / Kiosk Mode
- SecureFM: Remove the entire FileMaker menu bar with a single 
command. Disable all keyboard shortcuts, and disable window buttons 
such as close, maximize, and minimize.
- Custom Menus: Nothing equivalent.


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Purchase/Upgrade Info:

Single-user and volume licenses are available, as are cross-platform 
developer licenses. The plug-in and related documentation can be 
downloaded from http://www.newmillennium.com. Licensed users who 
purchased SecureFM 10 after February 1, 2010 may upgrade to version 
11 at no charge. For those who purchased prior to that date, version 
11 is available at a discounted upgrade price. For more information, 
please visit our web site or contact us at [log in to unmask]

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About New Millennium Communications:

New Millennium Communications, Inc. (http://www.newmillennium.com), a 
recognized leader in the FileMaker community, specializes in business 
and technical consulting organized around Genesis Accounting, a 
uniquely powerful accounting program created entirely in FileMaker 
Pro. New Millennium also produces vital assets for FileMaker 
developers including the popular SecureFM and MediaManager plug-ins, 
and the MetadataMagic, FMrobot, and Security Administrator developer 
tools.

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