THIS IS THE FIRST VIDEO INTERVIEW in a series of interviews on influential people in the FileMaker community. New interviews will be posted routinely. Alexis Allen is the founder and main blogger at Designing FileMaker, a new blog site focusing on great design as it pertains to FileMaker. A new site, Designing FileMaker has captured […]
SEEDCODE has a series of great tips for optimizing WebDirect in FileMaker 13. Here’s the latest: Since layout redraw is one of the slowest things a Web Direct (WD) layout can do, you’ll want to do whatever you can to minimize those redraws (which can appear your users as flashing or as a spinning busy […]
EXPLORE ENCRYPTION AT REST (EAR) with Douglas Alder: I started out exploring FileMaker Pro 13′s new encryption feature because I wondered about securing a single FileMaker database on my system. We like to think of a FileMaker file as a locked box, but I was never quite sure about how secure a FileMaker database is, […]
JEREMY BROWN uses global fields and ExecuteSQL to create context free, dynamic charts: Charts are great visual tools, but they can quickly get messy and difficult to read. A chart that compares sales of different products throughout the year would get very unreadable if all the products were listed for all the months of the year. Instead, […]
ROBOCALLS FROM FILEMAKER? Imagine a FileMaker solution calling a client and delivering the latest data update directly to the client. Impossible, you say? Not anymore. J Sciarra of Colibri Solutions has taken FileMaker and Twilio to next level using the Insert from URL command. It started out using Jeff England’s example of using Twilio to send […]
Robocalls from FileMaker? | All things Filemake...: […] Robocalls from FileMaker? Imagine a FileMaker solution calling a client and delivering the latest data update directly to the…
THE ABILITY TO READ LOG FILES directly from your Mac FileMaker Server in a specially constructed web interface could save lots of time. DataManix adds to their suite of FileMaker Server tools with just such a tool: The FMS13 LogViewer is a FileMaker solution, that you upload to your FileMaker Server 13. It is fairly […]
DOUGLAS ALDER addresses the UTF-8/16 export problem brought about by a decision made long ago by FileMaker programmers: In my last post about exporting Calendar files, I glossed over the UTF-8/16 issue that is still present in FileMaker Pro. The problem is that if a script employs “Export Field Contents”, which my last demo did, there is […]
MATT PETROWSKI brings cool javascript driven charts into FileMaker, starting with the source code from the D3 library. Similar to what others in the FileMaker world have done with CSS, HTML, and Javascript, Matt shows how easy it is to find and modify existing, free code into FileMaker web viewers, enriching your end users experience. Brought […]
ONCE YOU GET YOUR MIND AROUND THE CONCEPT that records in a portal are just related records in another table, report generation becomes so much easier: It might help you to understand the options you have in printing your portals, if you take a moment to think about what portal data really is … related records […]
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THE PROPER USE OF SPACE when designing a FileMaker solution is one of the harder topics to tackle–it’s not as tangible as scripting, naming conventions, and the like. As such, it’s harder to get one’s mind around it. Alexis Allen of Designing FileMaker just published a great blog post on the proper use of space: As we […]
10 tips for designing great looking layouts in FileMaker Pro: […] For great tips on the use of space, check out Alexis Allen’s excellent post. […]
GOOD THINGS HAPPEN when a developer is able to grab ideas and techniques from around the web and put them together to make a better solution. When that developer is able to make it modular, the whole developer community benefits. Douglas Alder of Homebase Software did just that recently by making a stand alone export solution […]
EfficientBizz: I kind of underestimated the value of this function when I implemented part of the FileMaker Hacks resources into my…
DON’T BE FOOLED BY THE TITLE–Daniel Shanahan uses heavy duty parsing skills to turn text into a usable timestamp. Watch this if you want to improve your parsing skills. Part 1 can be found here. FileMaker Server Timestamp Change – part 2 of 2 – YouTube.
HAVING TROUBLE remembering which FileMaker icon is for V12 and which is for v13? You’re not alone. FileMaker, for reason unknown to mere mortals, did not change the icon between the two versions, causing many to waste time opening, then closing, the wrong version. Not to worry! Aaron Giard of the Scarpetta Group has the […]
Alexis Allen Video Interview by FileMakerProGurus.com – Design for FileMaker Pro Developers: […] why I love design and FileMaker. You can read Don’s original article and link to the video here. Check…