GRIDS ON A LAYOUT help the designer add organization to the layouts. And organization has several benefits: It organizes space and information It helps users locate information It acts as a visual filing cabinet Alexis Allen of Designing FileMaker has a great article on grids: What they are, why to use them, and how to […]
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE NEW FILEMAKER 13 Function: Get (ModifiedFields). It’s a very simple process to write a script to call the function: SetField(Log; Get(ModifiedFields)) Set the script to run when the record is committed, and the Log field now contains the contents of any fields that were change. There’s a lot more–listen to it all. Filemaker Success […]
DANIEL WOOD OF WEETBICKS has extended the work he did with sliding drawers to popovers: In our last article, we introduced a generic technique that could be used to replicate a mouse-over effect. This used a combination of a custom function, script, plugin and tooltips to allow the user to expand and collapse a sliding […]
DOES YOUR IP ADDRESS CHANGE FREQUENTLY? If so, you may well benefit from using a service like Dyn.com. Unfortunately, my experience with Dynamic IP addressing has been negative so far. I am using it for an NAS System running a version of linux, however, so maybe that is part of the problem. Or maybe it’s just the […]
HERE ARE SOME LINKS to some recent FileMaker related updates: FileMaker Server 13.0v3: Updates version 13.0v1, 13.0v1a, and 13.0v2 of FileMaker Server to version 13.0v3. BaseElements plugin V2.3.0 from Goya. This free, powerful plugin is favored by Kevin Hammond and the crew at DB Services. It’s seriously good. GoZync 5 from Seedcode: Substantially faster using Perform […]
THERE’S A NEW FILEMAKER BLOG in town! Kudos to David Nahodyl of Bluefeather Group for jumping into blogging., His first post is all about Custom Web Publishing (CWP). CWP is a lot for most FileMaker developers to bite off unless they have prior programming experience with mysql, php, etc. It’s not just the programming, however. The setup process is […]
A SELF CLEARING PROCESS LOCK? Not the sexiest of topics, but exciting to those who have had to deal with clearing locked processes manually. Thanks to Kevin Franks for posting this solution, although credit for the work belongs to Bob Gossam of Absolute Advantage for developing this technique: Occasionally we need to program a process […]
A FASCINATING LOOK AT FILEMAKER in the movie industry, in this case how it was used to help make “Gravity”, the Hollywood Blockbuster with George Clooney and Sandra Bullock: This is where FileMaker made its way onto the big screen. When the film is broken down into 500 shots, with each comprising 30 sequences, with 366 […]
UPDATING previously imported data is a trick every developer needs to learn. Learn the basics in this session of FileMaker Success Tips. For more on information on importing: Updating Records With An Imported File FileMaker–Mapping Scripted Imports with Variable Paths Mapping Scripted Imports with Variable Paths To listen to the podcast, click Filemaker Success Tips : 304_FM_Success_Tips.
SIMPLE ANSWER? When the global field is the parent in a relationship. In any relationship, the record on the parent side is a single value that is the same in a matching field in one or more child records. Think of an invoice and line items on that invoice. The invoice number, say 1003, would match […]
PRODUCT UPGRADES: Mailit 6 for FileMaker 10-13 – Product Info – Dacons Limited. Makes emailing from FileMaker very powerful. FM Books Connector – link FileMaker to Quickbooks. NEW CUSTOM FUNCTIONS: Jul 02 UnionList ( ListA ; ListB ; leaveBlank ) Rob Poelking Jun 27 IsUUID( Self ) John Hanson Jun 27 Convert_Text_to_UTF8 ( string ) Mogens Brun Jun 27 Convert_Text_to_Base64 […]
I’D VENTURE TO SAY that many, if not most, FileMaker based business solutions build in some components of CRM (Customer Relations Management). The core business functions of any business center around taking care of the customer, and that requires managing the communication process and well as collecting and analyzing data critical to that process: There […]
THIS HAS TRIPPED ME UP BEFORE, TOO. Setting up a dropbox link with FileMaker Server can be frustrating: In the FileMaker Server Admin Console, 1) Click on Schedules 2) Add a new schedule by clicking the small calendar icon 3) Select your databases to back up, then click ‘Next’. 4) The second screen you will see is […]
A VERY COOL example of outside the box thinking from Daniel Wood of Digital Fusion: The slide control is an exciting new layout tool introduced in FileMaker 13. Because of it’s primary function of sliding via a swipe, it is built with FileMaker Go in mind. However it is quickly finding it’s place in FileMaker Pro with […]
Can't get FileMaker Server to Backup to DropBox...: […] What to do when you get an "Invalid Path" error when trying to set up a Dropbox folder as…
Don Clark: It's usually a permissions issue. Change the folders permissions to allow read and write privileges and it should work.