InspectorPro
Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate — advanced diagnostics and analysis for FileMaker development teams.
InspectorPro 8
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Better insight, performance and collaboration for FileMaker teams.
Using InspectorPro, FileMaker developers can analyze their solutions to gain insight into performance. It can detect problems and warnings, identify references and dependencies for any element, compare differences between solutions, and review security privileges. InspectorPro allows you to share development progress with your team. This can help you to stay organized and to work more efficiently.
Use InspectorPro to analyze your FileMaker solutions:
- Investigate and catalog problems in your solutions.
- Build a checklist of development fixes.
- View references and dependencies, analyzing their impact on your solution.
- Keep track of changes, when they were made and by whom.
- Share this info via FileMaker Server, Slack, etc, while collaborating with a larger team.
The Power of FileMaker XML
Now that FileMaker provides Save a Copy as XML, InspectorPro can collect, analyze and report on a more complete set of metadata. This enables InspectorPro to better collect, analyze and report on the architecture and code in your FileMaker solutions.
InspectorPro Consultation
InspectorPro builds better collaboration, performance and insight for FileMaker teams. We can help you learn from InspectorPro’s insights to see how best to make improvements.
A consultation will help you maximize InspectorPro's capabilities and make the most of its reports. Learn More
Video User Guide & Introduction
Chief Innovation Officer at Beezwax, Vince Mennano, walks you through this in-depth tutorial on using Inspector Pro 8! In this video, you will learn the essential steps to start with Inspector Pro 8, from setting up your account to leveraging powerful features for analyzing and managing your FileMaker 2024 solutions.
Key differences between InspectorPro 7 and InspectorPro 8.
Feature | InspectorPro 7 | InspectorPro 8 |
---|---|---|
FileMaker Version Compatibility | Up to 2023 (v20) |
FileMaker 2024 (v21) |
Baseline Analysis Speed | ~10 Minutes |
~30 Seconds |
Incremental Analysis Speed | ~5 Minutes |
~5 Seconds |
Work Uninterrupted During Analysis | ||
Add-On Integration | ||
Subscription-based licensing | ||
INVESTIGATE | ||
Attach Notes or Tags to Any Item | ||
Unlimited number of Solutions | ||
Unlimited number of Analyses | ||
Extra Areas of Information | ||
History and History Items | ||
Baseline Analysis | ||
Local Processing | ||
Upload to Server for Processing | ||
Graphical Summary Dashboard | ||
ACCELERATE | ||
Process Entirely On Server | ||
InspectorPro Integration API | ||
Improved use of 64-bit and multi-threading | ||
DDR 2.0 (Save as XML in FM 2023) | ||
Progressive Updating | ||
COLLABORATE | ||
Slack Integration | ||
Slack '@' user mentions | ||
Multi User Support | ||
Solution Restriction to Members | ||
Timezone Support | ||
Adding Watched Items |
Features
- Review your solution's security privileges in depth.
- Security "cross tab" information at your fingertips.
- View privilege sets across base tables, fields, layouts, scripts, or value lists
- Calculation Problems
- Script Problems
- Layout Object Problems
- Intuitive dashboard captures all the information you need
- Filter down to focus areas with easy toggling
- Navigate the tool as you would a browser
- Compare changes between versions of your FileMaker solution.
- InspectorPro reports on changes, and highlights relevant items or code.
- Drill in to view change details, or run a report sorting by change type or area.
- Continually view and navigate to detailed references in a tear-away window
- Easily identify disabled or dormant references
- Quickly determine all reference locations
- Global search across fields, layout objects, calculations and more
- LOgiCATOR UI makes Item search intuitive and consistent
- Search results are neatly organized for review
Track your progress while reducing problem code, and getting rid of technical debt. InspectorPro’s Progress Dashboard shows you analysis graphs that summarize:
Users can save their searches and call them up whenever needed.
Build a custom Script Monitor and integrate it with your solution. You can monitor some or all of your scripts in any of your solutions, with visual signals or even auditory notifications when some part of your solution performs a critical action.
InspectorPro's help has direct links to FileMaker help for script steps, script triggers and functions.
What and where is this item referenced? As a developer, you want to know all the places where a particular item is referenced easily.
Global Search and Item Search
Developer Spotlight
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Need help?
We can help integrating InspectorPro 8 into your FileMaker solutions.
Please contact us for more information or with any questions. Thanks!