Dr. Lee Strong and Andy Cohen also discuss connecting to an odbc source and importing all of the data and metadata into a new table, something not mentioned in the description of the episode: Thu, 3 September 2015 360_FM_Success_Tips Open Raw CSV, Getting specifics from Clients, Merge Printing Page Control Direct download: 360_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — […]
Having the ability to find records with an address in a set radius could come in very handy at times. Nate Williams of DB Services shows us how to do this in FileMaker 14: Imagine a sales rep visiting a customer in an adjacent state. Since the rep is unfamiliar with the area, it would be great to […]
A handy video guide from JohnAustin Lamprecht for a method to limit and or control the orientation of the screen on an iOS device using FileMaker G0 14: Sometimes you do not want the user to rotate between portrait and landscape modes on FileMaker Go. See how you can prevent that now… Source: FileMaker Go […]
These tools will help you with themes, Custom Web Publishing, and displaying data in web viewers, web pages, etc. As FileMaker integrates more with other platforms, HTML5 and CSS3 become more important in your work: HTML5 is one of the most popular language amongst developers and designers as it provides number of functionality and assists developers […]
Matt Navarre Matt Petwowsky talk with Molly Connolly & Jason Mundok about their upcoming conference called Find Your Moose. Find out in the first few minutes what the moose is all about, and what we all have in common with those searching for their moose. Business consulting is an extremely valuable asset for any entrepreneur, […]
Going away for the weekend? Download Filemaker Success Tips 359 to your smart phone or computer and listen while you travel. Thu, 27 August 2015 359_FM_Success_Tips Removing Asterisk, Server OS requirements, Using Estimation System Direct download: 359_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 5:30 PM Source: Filemaker Success Tips 359_FM_Success_Tips
I’ve listened to several Earl Nightingale clips in the past, and always found his advice and teachings to be timeless: Similarly, to Earl Nightingale, as a child I wanted to know why some were so poor, while others, appeared to be so rich. Why some people were so miserable, while others, appeared so happy. I wanted […]
Design is hard for me: I have to look around and find someone’s work to emulate or incorporate into my projects in order to make something nice looking. However, I quite often don’t like what I find–a great example of that is the current flat design. I’ll say it: It’s ugly. And hard for older […]
Douglas Alder extends his mortgage calculator example by adding tab panel emulation… Someone recently suggested (a blog, at DevCon? Sorry I lost my source on this one.) using the combination of FileMaker 14’s new button bar with a Slide Panel to emulate a tab panel. Why bother you ask? Well you get the cool slide animation […]
In part one of this series, Duncan Baker walked us through setting up an Amazon account and setting up the base server instance: In our previous blog post, we did all that was necessary on the AWS side to set up groups, users and security prior to being able to launch our server Instance using […]
Scott Love has a well written article on the FileMaker Platform in App Developer Magazine: As our world has increasingly adopted mobile technologies, developers have struggled with ways to meet the often urgent demands of business users. When iPhone and its iOS were introduced in January 2007, astute software developers certainly took note – but […]
Part one of an in-depth look at setting up an Amazon Web Server and installing FileMaker services by Duncan Baker of Sound Essentials: Learn to set up your own FileMaker Server using Amazon Web Services in this step-by-step tutorial from Sounds Essential… What’s involved in setting up FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS), one […]
Are you focused on the positive or the negative? Do you always look at the negative side of things? What’s going on in your mind affects what happens in your life. Learn how to break the patterns that limit your possibilities by programming your mind for success. Some great quotes: Success is no accident […]
Beverly Voth is guest posting at FileMakerHacks.com again, and has a great post about dual-purpose layouts. In this instance, the layout toggles between detail and list, using the Table layout to display (and print) the list: FileMaker 13 & 14 have some features that can be leveraged to allow onelayout to toggle between Form View & […]
EfficientBizz: Nice trick. I'm using SlideElements to scripttrigger gotoObject and GTRR scripts. For the user, it looks like swiping from one…