For offices coming from Lotus Approach:
- Variable fields, as in Approach. A variable holds one value for you alone, whatever record
is on screen. It is never stored in a record, and it is gone when the database opens again.
Put one on a form and type into it, set it from a button, and find with it: type [Which state]
in Find
- Numbering the records: a starting value can be the next number, with up to four letters
in front, such as C1001. Each record gets its own number when it is saved, and Number the
records you already have numbers the records a table holds now. So a join on the field reaches
one record
- A Back button, at the top of the side panel, goes back to the screen you were on before.
Alt+← and the mouse's back button do the same. It asks first about changes that are not saved
- For a Remote Desktop server: Start sharing whenever this database opens. The next person
who opens the database on the same server joins it and signs in, without a pairing code.
A second Windows installer installs indiDatabase once for every user of the computer. The
help has a new section, Running indiDatabase on a Remote Desktop Server
Also in this release:
- A plain e-mail address in a field gets the button that writes to it. The help shows how
to keep several e-mail addresses for one customer
- Double-clicking an .idb file on Windows opens it in indiDatabase
- Computers on 1.7.3 and earlier can keep working with a database on 1.7.4. They see a
variable as a note, and the computer that holds the database numbers their new records. Variables,
numbering and sharing on open need the computer that holds the database to run 1.7.4 or later
