The FileMaker Community Product Ideas Space Check out FileMakers Product Ideas Space, a place where you can add your ideas for new product features and up or down vote other people’s ideas. This is a great idea and is getting a lot of use by the FileMaker Community: ABOUT THIS SPACE Welcome to the Product Ideas […]
Web Clips and FileMaker Go How nice would it be to just click an icon on your iOS device’s desktop to directly open a specific FileMaker database (skipping opening FileMaker Go directly)? Andrew Duncan of Databuzz shows you, step by step, to make a web clip, the iOS equivalent of a shortcut you need to do […]
Filemaker Success Tips 371 New music background, drones, hoverboards, and, oh yeah, starting a FileMaker database from scratch, Parts 1 and 2. Planning is an integral part of the process, and a lot of it goes on before ever opening FileMaker. Thu, 3 December 2015 371_FM_Success_Tips Starting from scratch Direct download: 371_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted […]
This is broken! This video is funny and true. We all look at things and say “This is broken”. And we usually shrug it off, because there is nothing we can do about it. Watch this video and take this opportunity to look at your FileMaker solutions with a critical eye, and ask these questions: […]
Do you connect FileMaker to an accounting program? If so, what is the purpose? Some clients want to synchronize inventory, invoices, customer information, and purchases, and as a result end up paying for a lot development that is not really necessary. Not to mention employee time spent reconciling systems. Michael Rocharde shows a better, cheaper, […]
Well, not really…the list below is an image, so the website names aren’t links, but don’t let that bother you–there are some useful websites on this list: TallTweets lets you write tweets longer than 140 characters, and Tubemogel.com allows you to upload video to multiple sites at once, including Youtube. Wordle.net helps to summarise large pieces of text by […]
Merge Letter Templates If you have ever tried to add a merge field or merger variable inside of a text field, you know it’s not easy to do. Programmers have done so, but giving clients the ability to craft their own custom letter templates with variables didn’t exist. Until now. Thanks to Matthew Leering (and […]
Women Entrepreneurs Changing careers in order to make or keep a certain lifestyle is challenging. Keena Tomko shows that hard work, perseverance, and dedication make it possible to have the flexibility she needed in her life, and how FileMaker helped make it possible. Published on Dec 4, 2015 Keena Tomko, Owner & Lead Developer at […]
Just in case you missed it: Software Patch: FileMaker Server 14.0.4a Answer ID: 15413 Products FileMaker Server 14.x Software description This software provides security fixes for FileMaker Server 14.0.4: Updates the third-party component OpenSSL. Updates the third-party component Java to Java 8 Update 66, including a critical patch update. OS X El Capitan version […]
Tips ’n’ Tricks Part 1 11 great tips by Kevin Frank at FileMakerHacks. And unless my eyes deceive me, Frank is using a Macintosh now. Over the last few years I’ve been collecting miscellaneous tips and tricks with the thought of eventually aggregating them into a blog posting, and it appears that day has finally come. Ideally […]
Filemaker Success Tips : 370_FM_Success_Tips: Dr. Andy Cohen and Lee Strong’s FileMaker Podcast : Always Script It, How to Build your FM Biz The End of the Future is Premature – Seth Godin: Twenty years ago, when I was working on projects with AOL, we were sure that this was the next big thing […]
Contact Picker – Modular FileMaker I am currently developing a FileMaker solution that will be cloud based and will have hundreds of thousands of contact records. There is a need for isolating a specific contact record quickly and then associating that record to the current record. Drop down and popup menus don’t work well in this […]