INTERFACE DESIGN is a critical part of successful solution: It’s no great mystery that truly great user interfaces are the ones that are engineered to stay out of the way. ‘Staying out of the way’ means not distracting your users. Rather, good UIs let your users complete goals. The result? A reduction in training and […]
THIS IS AN INTERESTING METHOD for managing users and logins from Karsten on Modular FileMaker. UserManagement 3 is a solution to manage users and login procedures. Users are listed in a Filemaker table. Filemaker accounts are functional and per user group. User of the same group share the same settings. In the user table every […]
AS NOTED IN MICHAEL’S VIDEO, this is just a simple illustration-in reality you will need do take more precautions. Be sure to mark the records or have some other system in place insure that the underlying data is not changed after gathering the data for the accounting program. For example, set permissions to lock invoices […]
RE-USING FILEMAKER CODE and layouts is not always easy. Save some steps using Dwayne Wright’s method when possible. To create this report, I went to an existing client subsummary report and duplicated it. I didn’t need the subsummary layout parts, so I deleted all but one of them and converted the other to a body […]
THREE TOOLS I had not heard about, but will find useful. All entrepreneurs want their company to be an overnight success. But if you are lucky enough to experience rapid growth, as Gautum Gupta, founder and CEO of NatureBox discovered, you’ll face a new set of challenges. Read More: My Must-Have Apps: The Digital Tools […]
I HEARD RECENTLY that the starter solutions included with FileMaker Pro are not made by FileMaker. Evidently they are contracted out. Anyway, our thanks to UK FileMaker for this video on how to customize those solutions to meet you needs: Published on Feb 7, 2014 The FileMaker 13 Platform is powerful, flexible and able to […]
LISTEN when you have time: Table View and Web Direct, Simple Imports from Pre-12, Calc Fields or Multi Resources Filemaker Success Tips : 285_FM_Success_Tips.
THERE’S NO WAY to spice this up, but you need to address the use of naming conventions early on in your FileMaker developer career. There are some commonly accepted standards, standards within organizations, and special use needs. Whatever you use, it should be intuitive, easy for you and other developers to use, and consistent. Here’s […]
MANY NOVICE DEVELOPERS struggle setting up Paths to files in scripts. Mike Duncan of Soliant sheds some light: When importing data, it is useful to use variables to reference the file you are importing instead of using a full path that needs to be maintained. This allows you to better maintain your solution, and also […]
A SIMPLE GLOBAL NAVIGATION system from Michael Rocharde, using global repeating fields for layout storage. It’s a short (2:39) video and worth the watch. Global Navigation.
THE PROPER USE of position functions makes is possible to do all kinds of neat tricks. FileMakerHacks developed an inverse type of function to allow something not natively available in FileMaker: But what if we want to go the other way? Can we perform inverse operations for the above examples? In other words, if we […]
FITCH AND FITCH on a portal sorting method using value lists to set up the sorting: The great thing about this technique is that all the logic and control is script-driven, which makes it easy to set up and to make changes down the road. You will not be incurring technical debt. This technique can […]
MATT PETROWSKI’S take on FileMaker deployment models. Published on Feb 14, 2014 Brought to you by http://www.filemakermagazine.com Here’s a tutorial video about various possible deployment models using FileMaker Pro. Watch the whole thing.
CHANGE TEXT to a valid date format with this custom function. Very handy when data imput is manual or when importing from spreadsheets. TextToDate ( Anytext )
Karen Weaver: Hi Don! I am pretty sure they have been contracted out since FM7, maybe earlier, but at least that long.…
Don Clark: Thanks for the confirmation, Karen! I read it recently but couldn't find the link.