I’LL ADMIT IT: I never thought to search for empty fields in a legacy solution. The guys over at Colibri Solutions did, and figured out an interesting way to find them: If you ever have to take over a legacy system (as we seem to do often), you may need to determine what fields in […]
GOING TO DEVCON this summer? FileMaker has posted a series of short videos by some presenters. Check’em out and start thinking about which sessions to attend. Published on Apr 17, 2014 Join Vin Addala, Software Architect, FileMaker Inc. on July 30, 2014 at 9:00am and get ‘under the hood’ of FileMaker WebDirect. Learn best practices for […]
A FRANK, STOLID ASSESSMENT of FileMaker by Kirk Bowman. Back to FileMaker 13, the latest advancements in the platform — including the layout theme/style engine, the new layout objects (popover and slide control), the improvement in iOS functionality, and the server enhancements like Perform Script on Server – are significant steps forward. However, these do not change what […]
WHILE IT DOES NOT SHOW HOW TO BUILD AN AUDIT TRAIL, this video does discuss the pros and cons of using one, as well as using EAR (Encryption At Rest) in FileMaker 13. Published on Apr 15, 2014 Get an overview of what audit logs are and how you can implement them into your copy of […]
THIS TECHNIQUE has withstood the test of time: Dwayne Wright’s Save Found Set routine makes use of error checking, lists, and multiple line keys to restore a found set of records by ID. This could come in handy if you are required to keep historical reports for a particular found set – new records added […]
AH, THE EARLY DAYS. Sometimes one doesn’t look back on them nostalgically. Gwyn Jenkins of Linear Blue details the promise and pitfalls of WebDirect: Having an appreciation as to what WebDirect is best suited to is critical. Viewing data, simple data entry and manipulation for remote users is where it thrives. Displaying product ranges as […]
ANOTHER EXAMPLE of why the upgrade of the FMP URL protocol is so powerful: FileMaker Inc. has released an update for FileMaker Pro 13 (see the release notes here). Among the list of improvements to FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced is the extended functionality of the FMP URL protocol to include support for calling a […]
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KEVIN FRANKS continues his series on finding unique records, this time applying the techniques to a more normally designed set of tables: The demo in part 1 was based on a single “flat table” of data. Today we’re going to unflatten that table, and see how the technique can be applied to a properly normalized system, […]
GOYA has releases version 3.0 of RESTFM, a powerful set up tools that allows FileMaker hosted databases to interact with web services: Lots of systems now have RESTful Web Service APIs and are setup to allow access via these methods. Now your FileMaker Server data can talk to all of these systems. For example you […]
THERE IS SO MUCH TO REMEMBER with all of the new theme capabilities: In an earlier article we discussedFileMaker WebDirect and how to optimize your solution. This optimization relied on using FileMaker Themes. In this article, we will explore using FileMaker 13’s new feature to create custom themes and styles. This custom theme will allow us […]
KEVIN FRANKS CONTINUES his quest to find the best method of isolating unique records: Last week we looked at basing a value list on one of these “summary list relationships”, to facilitate counting unique values within the current found set… …and today we have a demo file, FM-13-Count-Unique-v1, that extends the concept to sub-summary reporting. You’ll want […]
DO YOU NEED TO MANAGE MULTIPLE FileMaker 13 Servers? Your job just got easier. Claus Lavendt of Datamanix just released a free FileMaker based tool that make it easy to add and control multiple servers.
ANOTHER GREAT USE for the httpspost function, this time combining it with Twilio to easily send SMS via FileMaker. Thanks to Jeff England for thinking this one up. Now execute the script. Congratulations! You have just sent your first SMS from FileMaker. If you take a closer look at the URL it uses an httpspost which is […]
FileMaker Server 13 Companion Tools: […] to make controlling FileMaker Server 13 on a Mac. These tools include an upgraded version of the FileMaker Server Companion…