San Diego, CA -  July 6, 2010 – Productive Computing, Inc. a Platinum member of the FileMaker Business Alliance, announces the release of the Address Book Manipulator v3 plug-in for FileMaker Pro®.  In addition to providing a bidirectional data exchange between FileMaker Pro and the Macintosh Address Book, this new version comes with a list of new features that customers have been asking for.

New Features:

- Set and get picture field.

- Retrieve a list of group members or a list of groups to which a contact record belongs.

- Delete persons or group records according to the groups which they belong.

- Ability to expand or constrain your search allowing you to perform multi values searches.

- Add, get and set custom Address Book fields.

- Enhanced method of error trapping.

- Assign a name to a new group created.

- Operate with the currently opened group or person record.

The Address Book Manipulator v3 starts at $74.95 ($48.72 upgrade) for a single user and is now compatible with OS X 10.5 – 10.6.  Visit the product page at  to download a demo, view the video tutorials and read our documentation.

Plug-in Integration and FileMaker Pro Support:

Want help getting this plug-in professionally installed into your FileMaker solution?  Do you have other database enhancements you would like to have programmed?  We can help!

 The process is easy – complete our online Request a Quote form (RFQ) or call us directly at 760-510-1200 and one of our certified developers can work with you on improving your solution today.

San Diego, CA – November 7, 2006 Productive Computing, Inc. a FileMaker Solutions Alliance Partner, today announced the release of version 2 of the Address Book Manipulator Plug-in for FileMaker Pro and the Macintosh OS X Address Book®. The Address Book Manipulator plug-in provides a lightning fast two-way data exchange between FileMaker Pro and Apple’s Address Book using nothing more than simple script steps. No AppleScript or XML programming required!

Completely rebuilt for the FileMaker Pro 7 through 8.5 native plug-in architecture as well as the Macintosh Universal Binary Intel hardware platform, developers and users will have the tools necessary to manipulate the Address Book DIRECTLY THROUGH A FILEMAKER PRO INTERFACE! The Address Book Manipulator can exchange data dynamically in a “one-to-many” format which handles group and individual contacts, multiple addresses, phone numbers and e-mails per record.

Key Features Include:
• New! – Access Group Records
• New! – Access Every Field and Label Available in Address Book – Including Custom Labels
• New! – Access Address Book Contact Record Modification Dates
• New! – Macintosh Intel Compatible (Universal Binary)
• New! – FileMaker Pro 7 through 8.5 Native Plug-in Architecture
• New! – Ability to search Address Book records by nearly any criteria
• New! – Support for International characters
• Add, Edit, and Delete Address Book Contact Records
• Get Address Book Contact Record Count

Example Uses:
• Push contacts from your FileMaker contact manager into the Apple Address Book for easy address lookup
• Easily distribute your corporate FileMaker data to the Address Book without the problems of double entry or missing information
• Pull contacts from your the Apple Address Book into your custom FileMaker Pro Solution
• Apple’s Address book is integrated into all other programs on the Macintosh. Use this plug-in to bridge the gap!

The Address Book Manipulator is native to and compatible with FileMaker Pro 7 through FileMaker Pro 8.5 solutions and for use with Macintosh OS 10.4 or newer.

Productive Computing, Inc. is one of the Partner Level members of the FileMaker Solutions Alliance, a 2000 member organization of professional FileMaker Pro developers. The company specializes in custom database design and FileMaker Pro plug-in development.