Hal Gumbert of Camp Software takes a look at FileMaker 14 one month later, and offers an honest take on those things he likes–and dislikes, as well: WebDirect has been overhauled. It’s now much faster and uses less resources which means your server can now handle more connections than before. It’s also been updated to […]
Check out FileMaker’s free, downloadable starter course, and get started learning FileMaker Pro now: Say goodbye to paper forms, spreadsheet and single-use apps and learn how to create your own custom solution for your unique business needs. Get started with the FileMaker Training Series: Basics – a free download. Get step-by-step instructions to help you […]
Two for one – I missed last week’s post (349) and this week’s post (350) was just released: Thu, 11 June 2015 349_FM_Success_Tips Launch Center, New Security Dialog, Badges in layout mode, Btn Bar Btn Labels Direct download: 349_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 5:30 PM Thu, 18 June 2015 350_FM_Success_Tips Field Comments and In-Field […]
A follow up by Douglas Alder to an earlier post about capturing webcam photos to FileMaker on a Mac, this post goes through the much more complicated process of doing so from Windows: The Challenge: Capturing images from a web cam into FileMaker on Windows. I was able to achieve this previously on a Mac using AppleScript, […]
Short, simple, and to the point: How to make join tables. Michael Rocharde tackles two issues: videos that are too long and windy, and an explanation of join table in about 5 minutes: I just found a 32 minute video (about 27 minutes too long) on creating a Join table. Here is a simple 5 minute one […]
Are you ready to engage in some blatant self promotion at FileMaker Devcon 2015? How? Simply stop by the FileMaker Pro Gurus Suite at the Cosmo anytime during the days of the conference. We’ll have a four camera shoot rolling all the time, and we’ll be meeting, greeting, and interviewing attendees, exhibitors, and anyone wanting […]
If you need to use a double click in FileMaker–and learn more about the sequence of passing script parameters–this video is for you. Richard Carlton shows off Andy Person’s double click script and details what happens behind the scene. Single click here to access the FileMaker DoubleClick Cleverness demo file.
Check out this free SVG Icon FileMaker Database from Indats: I’ve always been a big fan of Syncfusion’s Metro Studio tool which has an excellent selection of royalty free icons, but they didn’t export to SVG very well for Filemakers purposes, so I created a little database that lets you search and find icons like […]
Michael and I had a very nice conversation on the phone this past Monday morning, talking about FileMaker and business in general. We also discussed the Excel vs. FileMaker series he has produced–this one being the third in the series: Here are some more side-by-side comparisons between Excel and FileMaker but, before we move onto them, I should […]
FileMaker 14 has plenty of new features, and I thought I knew all the major (and a lot of the minor) ones. But one completely escaped my attention until I read about it on Weetbicks (Digital Fusion’s blog page: Navigation Parts. Navigation Parts are a brand layout feature with the following characteristics: There is a top […]
EfficientBizz: Just one thing I hardly miss: Option enable/disable Zoom for Navigation Parts. Currently, it's disabled by default. Otherwise, we could…
I read a lot of blog posts every day, and see a lot of fine ideas well presented. And once in a while I see an idea that is so faran outside the box that it it makes me say Oh My God, that’s brilliant! Or, as is so common in the texting world, OMG. […]
FileMaker 14 WebDirect is very robust–much faster, more capability. But it lacks the one thing common to all web browsers: robust printing capabilities. Mike Beargie of MainSpring wrote about this last year at Devcon about WebDirect 13, and I just stumbled across his series of posts. The second concerned using CSS to print all existing layouts instead […]
Michael Rocharde follows up his 5 video Part 1 post on Excel vs FileMaker with a great example of the benefits of relational databases over spreadsheets: Entering data one time and using it over and over again, without having to type it in again. Excel is an extraordinarily powerful tool for those functions it does […]
Another in the FTS:Basics series from UKFileMaker. These videos are great for those learning the basics. And there’s always something for the experienced developer, as well. Published on Jun 5, 2015 Join us for the fifth in a series of six webinars designed to complement your learning via FTS:Basics, the official self-paced training curriculum from […]
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