HATS OFF TO COLIBRI SOLUTIONS FOR A GREAT SUCCESS STORY. Not to mention a pretty slick FileMaker Go solution that ended up saving their client $40,000. Here’s the situation: Our display contractors are quite literally our “feet on the street,” and the poster installation process is labor-intensive. Our contractors must work to exacting standards, removing […]
NOT QUITE AS GOOD AS A DECODER RING, but still a handy little utility file. Stuart Gripman of FullCity Consulting built a little database that decodes over 3000 escape codes into regular english: Sometimes cutting and pasting content and code from websites can be fraught with frustration. Some of the biggest headache makers are escape codes- representations of […]
TIM DIETRICH OF FMAUTHENTICATOR (and FileMaker Addict, among others) offers two factor authentication through FileMaker: FMAuthenticator is a technique for implementing two-factor authentication (2FA) in the FileMaker database platform. What is Two-factor Authentication? Two-factor authentication requires users to provide two forms of identification before being granted access to a system. The two forms of identification […]
THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES ON DESIGN ASPECTS OF WEBSITES. While not directly about FileMaker, many of the concepts in this piece apply to general design principles for any computer base program: Charles Eames said, “The details are not the details. They make the design.” A website is a composite of details—and its content is communicated through […]
AARON GIARD of Scarpetta Group posted part 2 of his series on extending FileMaker’s capabilities with jQuery: For those of you who who have not read it, click to read part 1 of this series to get a preface on some of the techniques I am using to make this happen. I want to create a slider […]
I’VE DEVELOPED FILEMAKER SOLUTIONS for many types of businesses and read about many more, but haven’t come across a solution for a car wash until now. And for a bonus, it appeared in the NY Times! Brian Janezic, 27, was in the equipment room of one of the two Auto Wash Express self-service locations he owns in […]
AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, FileMaker Pro does a pretty good job making pdf’s, either a single output job from a single layout, or stringing several output jobs together from several layouts and producing a single pdf document at the end. Easy enough. Kevin Frank at FileMakerHacks had a more challenging problem: But what if you have […]
CO-AUTHORED BY SUSAN PROSSER AND STUART GRIPMAN, FileMaker Pro 13, the Missing Manual is now shipping. It’s available from Amazon via Kindle and through O’Reilly Media. FileMaker 13: The Missing Manual is Here!
TIM DIETRICH OF FILEMAKER ADDICT honored me by selecting me to be interviewed on his website. If you haven’t visited it before, FileMaker Addict is the go to place to learn more about people in the FileMaker community. Tim has been posting interviews for over 10 years. The most recent interviews (and this is a partial […]
WORKING WITH ACTIVE DIRECTORY GROUP POLICY OBJECTS is not for the inexperienced nor faint of heart. But if you are willing and able, installing, managing, and updating FileMaker Pro on Windows machines is easily done from the Windows server. David Nahodyl of Blue Feather walks us through the process of setting up a Group Policy Object in […]
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FILEMAKER, but I found this article a fascinating look at how smart phones have changed so much of our culture. This NYC restaurant looked into why they started getting more complaints about slow service. It turned out they had some surveillance tapes from ten years ago, so they […]
DO YOU HAVE A VOIP TELEPHONE SYSTEM? And a FileMaker client database? Have you ever wondered if you could use the former to make the latter call up a client record automatically? Wonder no more! Douglas Alder of Homebase and Steve Barer of Oak Bay Softrends describe how it came to be: A few weeks back, we had […]
I put this list together to help the FileMaker developer interviewees get things setup up for a higher quality video interview session. And then thought other readers might find it helpful, as well. Enjoy! Lighting is probably the most important issue: Turn on all lights in the room and open blinds and curtains. If more lighting is required, […]
FOR SOME PRETTY GOOD REASONS, many FileMaker developers are hesitant to use any third party tools to extend it’s capabilities. Incompatibilities in new versions, troubleshooting code in other programming languages, or just not wanting to learn so much new stuff all the time are just a few of the reasons. However, it’s time to embrace […]
Rick Guzman: Dear Developers, I've been trying to see if there's any easy way to embed a dialer like x-lite, Zoiper, etc.…