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Troi Automatisering releases Activator Plug-in 1.2 for FileMaker 5

New Plug-in lets you trigger FileMaker scripts on a different computer!

Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, March 13th, 2001-- Troi Automatisering today announced the availability of Troi Activator Plug-in 1.2, for FileMaker 5 both on Mac OS and Windows.

What is the Activator Plug-in?

The Activator is a very powerful tool for triggering scripts across the network, even over the Internet. All from within FileMaker you can:

  • trigger a FileMaker script on a different client computer
  • trigger a FileMaker script over the Internet
  • use the built in security to prevent unauthorized triggering
  • send a number (e.g. a record ID) and a long text with the trigger
  • start and stop listening for remote trigger messages with one script step

Apart from remote triggering you can also trigger scripts on the same computer:

  • trigger a script on a specified date and time
  • schedule events which trigger any script you want
  • trigger a script after exiting a field
  • validate fields with a custom script suited to your specific validation needs
  • put the computer to sleep till it needs to be activated again (Mac only).

Peter Baanen, company president, states: "Ever wanted to tell other users you changed their appointment or ask someone to get out of a record? Now you can with the Troi Activator Plug-in! In this final version we added new example files, fixed a few bugs and made it possible for Windows users to trigger scripts in any FileMaker file!"

Suggested Uses

The Activator allows you to:

  • create a real-time appointment solution, where you can notify a colleague (on a different computer) of changes in his/her appointments
  • notify a user that a shared document can be used
  • start processing scientific data on a lab computer (see our Serial Plug-in for connecting FileMaker to serial devices: <http://www.troi.com/software/serialplugin.html> )
  • get someone out of a record, so that it is no longer locked
  • schedule processing of incoming email and put the computer to sleep the rest of the time, saving energy, ideal for preventing California's blackouts ;-)

The possibilities are only limited by your imagination! We invite you to test drive the new functions and see what you can do with it!

Pricing & Availability

A fully functional version of Troi Activator Plug-in 1.2 is available for downloading at Troi's Web site at:

<http://www.troi.com/software/activatorplugin.html>.

The Troi Activator Plug-in 1.2 works with FileMaker 5. The plug-in also works on Mac OS with FileMaker Pro 4. The plug-in is available for Mac OS and Windows95/98 and NT/2000, and costs US$ 89 per user. Details on developer licenses and multi-user discounts can be found on our web site. You can order licenses via our web site.

XML formatted information

All information for this plug-in formatted in XML can be found here:

<http://www.troi.com/info/xsd/activatorplugin.xml>.

If you list our software you can use this XML data to automatically update information of this product. For more information on this and XSD (extendable Software Description Language) look here: <http://www.troi.com/info/xsd/>.

About Troi Automatisering

Troi Automatisering is leading developer of cross platform FileMaker Pro plug-ins, databases and utilities. For more information, visit our web site at:
<http://www.troi.com/>.    

Contact information  

Diana Budding,
Troi Automatisering
Vuurlaan 18
2408 NB Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-172-426606,
Fax: +31-172-470539

Newsroom: <http://www.troi.com/news/>

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