As a reminder, we’re working on project tracking software that we can build using the FileMaker platform. Our FileMaker Project Management Solution blog post discussed some fundamental functionality many off-the-shelf project management applications offer and their shortcomings for users with unique workflows. By way of an example, we’ve established that we are a graphic design firm hired by […]
Over the years, we’ve worked on various FileMaker project management solutions of different shapes and sizes. Yet, building a project management application seems strange, considering how many off-the-shelf project management applications are currently available – Basecamp, Jira, Trello, and monday.com, to name a few. Of course, each of these programs has its strengths, but the […]
The ChatGPT wave of innovation continues to roll along. OpenAI has released a new version of ChatGPT, version 4.0. The latest version features a host of back-end improvements and several key front-line upgrades, including real-time multi-lingual support, improved intuitive contextual understanding, and an adjustable personality slider that allows users to adjust the tone and communication […]
One remarkable thing about working in a supportive and dynamic collective like the FileMaker developer community is that we can share our experiences and techniques. With Claris FileMaker, there are often many solutions to any given problem, and over time our community has come up with some innovative and creative ways to use FileMaker. Unfortunately, […]
Dominick Capobianco: Very nice - I LOVE all 3 tips. The loop one is definitely cool and I love the box with…
Lin in Austin: I really like the Sorting Columns trick. At first I thought that it would not work for me because I…
As we discussed in our previous blog post, FileMaker has released a new feature set involving transactions. The new scripts allow us to send the changes we make to a record to the server in aggregate. So, we can batch all our changes together in one transaction and send that to the server. If you read […]
ChatGPT has dominated the news cycle recently, with articles appearing in just about every media outlet. For those who haven’t heard about it, ChatGPT is a chatbot driven by artificial intelligence (AI) software. OpenAI developed the service and released a beta version of it at the end of 2022. It can generate a chat – […]
Claris released a new version of FileMaker, and it’s pretty exciting. Of course, the usual list of bug fixes and minor enhancements to the platform accompanied the update. Nonetheless, there’s at least one outstanding new feature: Filemaker Transactions. In the database world, a transaction is any operation on an entity. In FileMaker world, it represents […]
ChatGPT is dominating online and offline conversations these days. ChatGPT is a chatbot created by a company called OpenAI. But saying it is a chatbot is like saying a Porsche is a car. This particular chatbot has performance and features unlike any other chatbot or AI tool available to the public. As a result, it […]
In our previous blog posts, we reviewed the following: What a CRM is The requirements for a basic CRM How to create an entity relationship diagram (ERD) for that CRM How to create a CRM database in FileMaker In this final post, we will review how to design a FileMaker CRM to finish up the system. So, […]
In our previous blog post, we reviewed what a customer relationship management (CRM) system is and put together the requirements for a basic CRM. Yet, we’re not quite ready to start writing code. Next, we need to draw up an entity relationship diagram – ERD for short. In database land, this is a map of all the buckets […]
A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool is essential for any business. A CRM helps us communicate with clients, automates processes, and provides analytical tools to help us understand our operations and customers. That said, there are different kinds of CRMs. Some are as simple as the contacts app on our phones, while others can be […]
TL;DR: Use the import function instead of a loop to create many records simultaneously. In FileMaker Land, it happens that, on occasion, we have to create many records in one fell swoop. For example, when a new cohort of students enrolls at a school, we have to make a bunch of records in a student […]
_stu: I ran a few additional tests with this technique and thought I'd share. The import process described above exports to…
Don Clark: Thanks for doing the extended testing; very interesting!
FileMaker developers are in high demand. As businesses realized the importance of technology during the pandemic, digitizing workflows immediately became a priority. As a result, FileMaker developers were needed to build custom software that would allow both internal and external users to function as usual regardless of the COVID requirements. Despite the craziness, the pandemic presented an […]
It really is all about location, location, location. FileMaker Go makes it possible for us to collect and share longitude and latitude coordinates with the Location and Location Values functions. They’ve been around for a while but are worth a second look these days as we find more and more uses for FileMaker Go and […]
Dan: When I enter a chat request for the "top 10 banks in the US" I get an Error "{ "error":{…
Don Clark: Hi Dan, You will need to contact ChatGPT to increase your quota. FileMaker can only return the error sent from…