Iowa City, Iowa-based MetaCommunications Inc. on Monday introduces a Software Developer Kit (SDK) to enable its Digital Storage Manager product to interface with FileMaker Pro, the popular database software.
Digital Storage Manager is an intranet search and archive management tool for creative workgroups. Based on MetaCommunications’ “Virtual Ticket” product, Digital Storage Manager helps creative and prepress professionals with finding, tagging and archiving files to help them avoid having to recreate work from previous jobs. It works in coordination with standard desktop publishing tools and the Mac OS X Finder to provide real-time file indexing, customizable metadata tagging, online and offline search and more.
The FileMaker Pro SDK offered by MetaCommunications provides tools, reference documentation and sample solutions to their FileMaker Pro 7-based systems. The SDK also includes FileMaker Bridge, which keeps Digital Storage Manager and FileMaker Pro in sync with one another. Also included is a FileMaker Lookup solution that lets you search info stored in FileMaker Pro using AppleScript and MetaScript, a JavaScript-based scripting language.
MetaCommunications has confirmed that the Digital Storage Manager SDK works with the newly announced FileMaker Pro 8 as well.