FileMaker data to text file using Base64 Look out, FileMaker fans, there’s a new blogger in town. Joe Simpson of Radical Application Development, posted his first blog on October 5th, and shows us how to use the Base64 function to output different types of text files: Simple text files XML files Vcards Clearly outside the box […]
You have to sign up for Creative Nerds newsletter, but you’ll get some pretty good looking free design stuff, including icons: We have put together a free design bundle. The bundle includes hundreds of free icons, realistic high quality Photoshop brushes, and seamless vector patterns. All the resources used across Creative Nerds website are all free to use […]
This seems like the best answer to sending bulk, customized email from FileMaker. It bypasses throttling, blacklisting, and blocking access to 3rd party SMTP services: If you’ve attempted to send out your own mass e-mails using FileMaker’s built-in sending feature or an e-mail sending plugin (such as our 360Works email plug-in), you’ve probably encountered difficulties […]
You probably have your favorite free screen capture tool (mine is Skitch, from Evernote, which is not on this list), but the list in this article is pretty good and worth a look. One feature I find really handy is a timed screenshot, which allows you to take a picture of you opening a menu […]
Macah Encarnacao of Soliant Computing wrote a great little demo file for building folders on either a Mac or PC: It is very common to generate reoccurring reports in FileMaker that get saved to the user’s computer. Perhaps you would like to organize these reports by day or type. OS level folders and subfolders are a […]
One shortcoming of FileMaker compared to SQL databases the lack of built in Atomicity–the ability to insure that all records in a transaction are updated successfully, or no changes are applied if the update fails. This shortcoming has been addressed by FileMaker developers in the past by cycling through records in a portal without committing data […]
Andrew: Another great way to handle transactions is to use Todd Geist's Selector/Connector model. It's very simple and he explains how…