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Updated file management plug-in for FileMaker Pro 15 improves UnZIP, Metadata and several other functions.

Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, 23 January, 2017--Troi Automatisering today announced the immediate availability of Troi File Plug-in 8.6.1 for FileMaker Pro 15.

What is new in version 8.6.1?

Version 8.6.1 is a maintenance update of our plug-in for manipulating external files and folders directly from FileMaker Pro. In this version we improved the handling on Windows of certain ZIP files with the TrFile_UnZIP function. This version also improves parsing newer PDF versions, like PDF 1.7 with the TrFile_MetaData( "-GetPDFDescription") function. On MacOS X the TrFile_MetaData( "-GetMovieDescription") function now returns timecode data for movies. Several other functions were improved as well and we fixed some potential problems with the DragAndDrop function on macOS X.

More detailed information on all changes and improvements implemented in Troi File Plug-in 8.6.1 and earlier can be found at: http://www.troi.com/software/filehistory.html

Pricing & Availability

A fully functional demo version of Troi File Plug-in 8.6.1 is available for downloading at Troi's Web site at: 

http://www.troi.com/software/fileplugin.html

Licenses cost US$ 99 per user. Details on developer licenses and multi-user discounts can be found on our web site. You can order licenses from our web site.

Upgrading to version 8.6.1 is free and recommended for all users of version 8.5 and 8.6: version 8.6.1 works with the same registration as the 8.5 version. Users who bought a license for Troi File Plug-in on or after November 1st, 2015 are entitled to a free upgrade to version 8.6.1. Eligible users have been sent a new 8.5 registration. Contact us if you have not received yours.

Upgrades from licenses bought before November 1st, 2015, are available from US$ 59 per user. Upgrade prices for other licenses can be found on our web site. You can order upgrades from our web site.

We released a new version of Troi File Plug-in, our plug-in for manipulating external files and folders directly from FileMaker Pro. This version improves compatibility with macOS Sierra. New functionality includes the possibility to get icons from external files and to preserve transparency when making thumbnails from image files that have transparent areas. See: http://www.troi.com/software/fileplugin.html

It's been more than a month now that Troi Automatisering attended the annual FileMaker Developer Conference 2016 in Las Vegas. It was great seeing lots of old friends. And I'm amazed by how quick it all went.

Below is a small recap of the first few days, with some of the photo's I took.

Day 0: the day before DevCon 

On Sunday we went to the registration. People got their badges and a rucksack. And they could add their n-th year tags to their badges:

On Sunday I also made a group photo of all the speakers of this years DevCon:

This is quite a FileMaker brain pool! 

Day 1:  Monday 

On Monday the DevCon really got started, we setup our booth first:

Luckily all our bags had arrived (unlike other years) so the booth was ready quickly. We also had a nice flyer printed, to handout to customers.

(Download our DevCon flyer PDF here)

Then it was time for the Keynote presentation, where Andy LeCates, Rick Kalman and Anand Vaghela (amongst others) gave an inspiring talk about the current state (which is great!) and the future of FileMaker (which we can't discuss). Here Andy hands over the show to Rick:

The Product Showcase

At the showcase, which ran for 3 days, we met with lots of people, old customers and newbies, who we showed our range of Troi plug-ins.

To make it more visual we had a display using our Troi Serial Plug-in and FileMaker Pro 15, which hooked to an Arduino mini-computer (via USB port). It showed the current temperature at the venue, and tracked the data in FileMaker. Below you see the electronics:

It was a great success, lots of visitors tried to manipulate the temperature to a dry heat: 

More to come

The newly released Troi Text Plug-in 4 for ‪#‎FileMaker‬ Pro 14 adds customizable (or is it customisable?) spelling functions per field.  You can implement this from a calculation, for example in a script or in a calculation field. You can also ignore, learn and unlearn words, from a script.