Get up to speed presenting FileMaker 13, as practice for FileMaker 14 when it comes out. Hopefully pretty soon: How to Demo FileMaker 13 Materials, script and videos to guide you in exploring the FileMaker Platform with others FileMaker Inc. View More by This Author This book is available for download with iBooks on your […]
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A free video and download from Matt Petrowski on loading content from a variety of sources, including the web: FileMaker Pro is such a wonderful environment for being able to rapidly create software which is extremely powerful and functional. The fact that the database is just there, built-in and available saves an enormous amount of […]
The Harvard Business Review’s articles are always worth reading. This one has some great advice to reduce stress in 5 steps: Breathing Meditating Listening Questioning Purpose The fourth step, questioning, makes what I consider to be a important, yet often overlooked, observation about the quality of thoughts: This tool isn’t about asking other people questions, […]
Last weeks podcast from Lee Strong and Dr. Andy Cohen (as of the publishing date of this post, the podcast link description at their website showed episode 322, not 332. However, the actual link points to episode 332) Thu, 12 February 2015 332_FM_Success_Tips Optimizing For Performance, SyncAndAsync, Round Trip Direct download: 332_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 6:30 […]
Without sales, the best developers in the world sit idle, twiddling their thumbs. That is the harsh reality, so small development businesses (read: the owner), generally have to acquire sales and marketing skills in order to maintain and then grow their businesses. In his interview with FileMakerProGurus, David Knight, of Angel City Data, made a similar […]
A quick tip for beginning FileMaker developers from Richard Carlton: Updating contacts in a table by importing an Excel or CSV file. The one piece necessary for this to work is having a field in FileMaker that matches a field in the import sheet. Usually you can do this with an email address (as he does […]
OS X Daily offers tips (daily, of course) on a variety of Mac related subjects, including Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad, jailbreaking, news, and iOS. With the number of features, not to mention the number of fixes, added to OS X and iOS with each release, the author, Paul Horowitz, certainly has plenty of […]
I traveled to L.A. recently for business and, not wanting to waste an opportunity to get to know more people in the FileMaker community, scheduled a video interview with David Knight of Angel City Data. Listen in to learn more about David, including: How he got his start with FileMaker How he landed major recording studios as clients How […]
Looking for Free FileMaker Example Files? You’ll find over 350 in this list, with more frequently added…or add your free file to the list! Check out the list of Free FileMaker Example files below! FileMaker bloggers often link a downloadable example file that shows you how to do their latest tip/trick. What I’ve done here is […]
Tim Dietrich takes on ExecuteSQL and repeating fields, something most developers don’t use anymore. However, there are plenty of legacy databases out there using repeating fields, especially solutions written pre FileMaker 7. For those times when a repeating field is needed, Tim has the answers: It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of repeating […]
24U Software announced a new version of their Phone Companion solution a couple of days ago: DIAL A NUMBER WITH A CLICK With 24U Phone Companion your FileMaker solution can tell your phone system to make a call from your phone to the desired phone number. Instead of having to read and type your […]
For those Mac users out there, I thought you might find these Yosemite tricks helpful. I have used Yosemite for a couple of months, and really like it. However, there were/are plenty of features I did not know about or that I wasn’t utilizing properly: The new spotlight search–it does math, currency conversion, word definitions, […]
EfficientBizz: Back-2-my-Mac (share your screen) or share files between all devices with same Apple-ID is a great thing. I believe that…
Don Clark: That would be nice! On the down side, all of this connectivity between devices might turn into a real headache…
EfficientBizz: I see 2 possible points of attack: Apple Inc.: Do you trust all the security measures on Apple's side for…
Instantly Restore Deleted FileMaker Records? How is that possible? As it turns out, it’s not that all that hard, but does require some up front planning. The secret is to put new related table in front of the table with the data, and relate the new table to the old table based on the primary […]
Jack Rodgers: Sounds like a lot of work and more problems. Easier would be to use a toggle field for relating to…
Mauricio: Thank you for taking the time to share those links.
Karsten: Set of free Filemaker building blocks (mFM Modules) for sorting, searching, dynamic navigation, user management, phone number formatting, etc.