Security concerns are paramount these days, and for good reason: Hackers, and their bots, are running on the web all the time, probing and poking at routers and data streams. Part of the solution to better security is to install an SSL certificate, which will encrypt data from point to point. SSL does not protect data at […]
Security is of paramount concern these days, as legions of hackers across the world are working overtime to gain access to private files. Including FileMaker files. Richard Carlton covers one key trick to protect your FileMaker file in this short (< 9 minutes) video. A more comprehensive review of FileMaker vulnerabilities–and what to do about them–can be found in […]
565 free icon packs that will work in FileMaker. Not a bad deal. And there’s lots more at than just icons available–navigate to their hopepage and poke around. From FreePik.com: We are currently creating hundreds of free vectors daily. Discover our exclusive content! Find dozens of free vector graphics every day, all designed by Freepik. Note: […]
Tim Dietrich (AKA the man who never sleeps) has released another FileMaker solution: fmStripe. Reasonably priced at $300 (with a $50 discount for existing email subscribers), it’s a pretty well rounded out integration package of FileMaker and Stripe: With fmStripe, you can easily receive credit card payments and store them in a FileMaker database. fmStripe, […]
Can’t wait to hear their take on the Connector Selector model…Which is somewhat cool, now that I’ve listened. I’ve studied it in Seedcode Complete (and we are using it as the starter file for a complex solution for a client). I think the benefits of the style, once mastered, outweigh any negatives by a long […]
Don Levan on the importance of design principles on function and, ultimately, increased profits and happier users. One example from the video: a simple change that saved 15 seconds saved $500,000 per year. Published on Apr 6, 2015 Proper solution design means the people who use it can solve previously insurmountable problems and more easily […]
Guy Stevens shows how to relate multiple pictures to a single record, as well as how to import whole folders of pictures, container fields, etc. Published on Mar 20, 2015 Relate multiple pictures to a record in a Filemaker Database. For when you want to add an unlimited amount of pictures to a record. A […]
The challenge laid down a couple of weeks ago by Lee Strong and Dr. Andy Cohen: After performing a complex script, end up at the same record in the same found set in which you started. The first segment of Filemaker Success Tips 339 addresses readers solutions to this problem. Thu, 2 April 2015 339_FM_Success_Tips Go Same Record […]
The Day Functions are a set of three very handy, built-in FileMaker functions, which, when combined with a few other functions, add the ability to manipulate the day portion of a date: The Day (Date) function hands back the numerical date of the date in its parameter. Put like that, it probably sounds a bit useless. If you’re […]
Brendan McBride of DBServices shows how FileMaker can integrate with existing web services to provide a more complete solution to your clients. In this instance, the client needs to know all of the proper taxes to collect for a given address anywhere in the country–a daunting task, given that tax code changes are hard to track. […]
Hmmm. I don’t normally copy the whole contents of someone else’s post (else it wouldn’t be content curation), but this post from Stephen H. Blackwell left little choice: Security update for FileMaker 13 versions. , http://thefmkb.com/14358 Be sure to read the instructions first. Important Security Update Read the instructions first That about […]
I’ve read this post a few times now over the past week, hoping to figure out why RobFM, of Sumware.net, builds runtime versions of his solutions for distribution. He explains well what he does, I just don’t get his justification for doing it. It seems like a lot of work for marginal gain: …the benefits […]
The amount of time it takes for beta testing and de-bugging are two areas often shortchanged when quoting a custom FileMaker solution–and for good reason. It’s not a lot of fun. The development process is messy at times, and most developers will inadvertently leave some broken links, missing layouts, and thing of that nature. That’s […]
Daniel AMIGUET: Where is the link for the discount?
Don Clark: Kind of hidden on the youtube page below the Show More button: Discounted: It’s good for 13% off any purchase…
One of the first acronyms to come from the computing world was GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out. Agnes Riley has a very helpful post on the subject of clean data, and some tips for developers on how to keep the problem under control: This is something I’ve bee dealing with for years. It hit me […]
Jonathan Fletcher: That's because he's not creating runtimes. He's using other features of the Developer Utilities to rename his files. He has…
Don Clark: Thanks, Jonathan. I only ever used it for making runtimes, something I did many times over the years. I did…