FileMaker Server on AWS Jesse Barnum’s presentation from DevCon 2016 on deploying FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services EC2: I moved my servers to EC2 both for myself and my clients (where appropriate) within the past year. If your business can utilize Wide Area Network (WAN) services, you should take a serious look at Amazon’s EC2 […]
Units of Measure Can you imagine filling out a sales order for 7 butters? 7 butters doesn’t make any sense. It would need to be 7 ounces of butter or 7 packs of butter or 7 cases of butter. Ounces, packs, and cases are all examples of units of measure. When working with inventory, there […]
FileMaker Beginner Sunny Chu started a youtube channel about a year ago aimed at helping FileMaker beginners get started a little faster. Below is his first video covering the basics of looping to modify groups of records. Looping is one of the most basic script features, and is also one of the most powerful. Anytime […]
BaseElements by Nicholas Orr Kudos to David Nahodyl of Blue Feather for getting Nick Orr to do a livestream presentation on BaseElements, the FileMaker database analyzer program. Not to be confused with the free Base Elements plugin used by so many developers. Nicholas Orr from Goya presented at our developer meeting this month. Watch the recording of the […]
FileMaker Tricks Exporting to Excel Five years ago, Kevin Frank developed and wrote an exhaustive series of articles on exporting to Excel. The whole point of his series was to bypass the very limited options provided in FileMaker to give the end-user a nice looking spreadsheet without having to do a lot of manipulation in […]
Lee Smith: Where do you find the sample files? Every link I clicked here is like a loop.
Daniel Shanahan: Hi Lee, Sorry about that. The form on the website was incorrect. It should work now. Once you fill out…