New Features at a Glance

• New Layout design - complete makeover AND consolidated into a single UI file.
• All layouts fully FileMaker 9 compatible with built in "stretchy"!
• New link layouts for quick jumping from item to item.
• New Consolidation Report.
• New Error, Unreferenced and Warning Report.
• Completely updated import process.
• New Calculations table to search solution wide in all calcs.
• New Notes table and ability to assign notes, and see errors, warnings and notes against previous solution imports.
• New layouts for Variables and Plugins.
• New import process with clearer progress and fewer processing steps.
• Smart Search feature to limit your search to the current analysis.

New Features in detail

New layout design and setup.

• Consolidated all of the main UI files into a single file.
• Single UI file - makes it easier to use BE alongside other solutions.
• Single UI file - allows us to import into a data only file, reducing the TO count and speeding up imports.
• Makes names more prominent over id fields.
• New icons for linking to related portal rows - Allows us to show more data in the portal.
• New navigation bar on the left to allow more room on the layout for data.
• New Link Layout - allows you to jump from section to section with ease, and see all related items.
• New Notes layout.
• Notes Layout - allows you to add notes to any items, and assign those notes to a developer.
• Notes Layout - allows you to see notes against previous iterations of this solution.
• Notes Layout - shows a portal of errors, unreferenced and warnings against this item as well as against previous iterations of this solution so you can compare the current version to previous to see where and when errors were introduced.
• All layouts have been updated and re-configured with the new FileMaker 9 Autoresize feature. So layouts can expand to fill your screen.
• Added a total of errors, unreferenced and warnings to the main portal on the home screen.
• New Sort Order Items table, showing the real sort order for script steps.
• New Script Text field, listing all of the contents of a script in a single field.
• Smart Search feature - when doing a find in BaseElements, it can automatically limit your find to a particular Analysis, so that you only find in the solution or import you're currently looking at.
• New Analysis Printout option with quick totals for every file.

New consolidation Report.

• Using BaseElements, we built a report, in BaseElements, to consolidate BaseElements.
• This allows you to move any Table, or sets of layouts or both from one file to another.
• So you can use it to consolidate multiple files into one, or to split a file into separate data and UI, or any combination of those.
• This report takes advantage of some previously unseen optimisations to make the entire process as easy as can be.

Other Reports.

• New Error Report - Allows you to list errors, unreferenced and warning items, independent of the item they're related to.
• Modified the comparison report to allow a comparison by name or id.
• Comparison Report - now you can compare by name or id, you can see changes in a solution over time (by id) or difference between two versions of the same thing, developed independently.
• All reports have options for notes, as well as assigning the report item to a developer and marking it as complete.

More Data Tables and layouts.

• New Calculations Table.
• Calculations - you can now search in a calculation across your entire solution.
• New Variable Layouts - you can now search for variable usage across your entire solution.
• New Plugin Layouts - you can now search for Plugin usage across your entire solution.

Updated import process.

• Optimised import process imports all of the files in a solution in one step, making imports quicker and easier to see progress.
• New import layout gives a better indication of progress.
• Almost completely remove the processing steps, and built them into the import instead to reduce import time.

Other (not so exciting) changes.

• Update the registration process and dialogs. Added a demo registration option into BaseElements.
• Cleaned up the setup and preferences.
• Add growl notifications for mac users.
• New Help layout.
• Added the ability to import custom file paths.
• Lots more little things :)

With version 1 of BaseElements, we introduced a long list of new features during the 1.x version history. We expect to do the same with BaseElements 2. So we think that not only is BaseElements 2 great value now, it's going to continue to be over the coming months. It will be updated for compatibility with any future releases of FileMaker Pro, as well as some more neat ideas we have planned.