CMAssistant progress report

As of mid-December 2013, the latest version of CMAssistant is 8-point-something. Somewhat confusingly (to me, anyway) we're working on two tracks here: There's still a version that runs in FileMaker Pro 11 and I've made a few improvements to it. But there's a different version that runs in FileMaker Pro 12 (or 13) which has more — but somewhat different — improvements.

I can't keep this up for long. I'm about to cease further development of the FileMaker 11 version.

As soon as I finish adding support for adding locations via iPhone to CMAssistant 8 for FileMaker Pro 12, I'm also about to cease work on that line of development — in order to work on a complete, from-the-ground up rebuild in FileMaker 13.

It'll probably take a month or two to complete this rebuild. But when I'm done it's going to be fantastic.

DELIVS list in CMAssistant 8 for FileMaker Pro 12. Click to view full size.

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