The New Mexico FM Pug FileMaker group will be having a regular meeting as well as a virtual meeting on Tuesday, February 11,, 2014. We welcome FileMaker users from all over to join us from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM MST. If you are interested in attending virtually, please email don@filemakerprogurus.com. We’re using join.me to […]
WAY MORE than you think. Just comparing functionality -cd player, phone, camera, answering machine, video camera, etc. – the cost to do the same thing is over $3000. Matching just the memory, processor, and broadband capabilities brings the total to over 3.5 million! And don’t forget to appreciate the fact that all of this power […]
Another good post on Popover menu’s – there are lots of ways to use that great little feature to great effect.
This new FileMaker 13 function gives you a pretty impressive list metadata about the contents of a container field – stuff you can use to improve your client’s interactions: A couple of use cases that we came up with where this metadata would be useful: Using the filesize attributes to reject files that are too […]
FILEMAKER put this webinar together recently and it’s worth a listen (54 Minutes). I tentatively have it scheduled for the next New Mexico FileMaker User Group meeting on Tuesday, February 11th. We are using Join.Me to allow remote attendance at the meeting – email don@filemakerprogurus.com if you are interested in attending.
FILEMAKER SUCCESS TIPS – I don’t know how they keep cranking out great content. This episode covers: Keeping it organized, WebDirect Vs FMGo, Building Layouts for themes Listen to the whole thing.
CNS released an update to CNS Menu. I like the description, but have never used it. It sounds goods, works back to FM v7, and is reasonably priced. Does anyone out there have experience with it?
RICHARD BRANSON – possible the world’s best entrepreneur – on Entrepreneurism: From my perspective, an entrepreneur isn’t just someone who launches a business; the desire to innovate then prompts that person to keep on striving to make positive changes. Companies need to be flexible: This starts with the people at the top, who must have […]
FASCINATING glimpse back to the beginning of Filemaker: The history of Filemaker starts back in the early 1980s with four people who originally worked at Wang Laboratories, headquartered in Lowell Massachusetts: Spec Bowers, Alan Albert, Dan Chadwick, Jega Arulpragasam. Wang Labs had a political culture back then, if you were on the inside track (essentially, […]
WIM DECORTE brings some clarity to the use of variables throughout FileMaker: FileMaker has three types of variables for use in those different scopes: global variables: they have a double dollar sign prefix ($$myvar) and once declared they will retain their value until the FileMaker file closes (or some scripted or calculated action clears their […]
BE CAREFUL trapping for modifier keys – sometimes it can backfire! There are times when you want to allow some advanced functionality when a combination of modifier keys (shift, alt, ctrl, etc.) are held down. I’ve seen some developers go nuts with this – using one button with 5 or 6 functions based on what […]
1,000, ooo FILEMAKER GO Apps downloaded for iPad and iPhone: SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 5, 2014 – FileMaker, Inc., today announced that its FileMaker Go for iPad and iPhone apps have surpassed 1,000,000 downloads from the iTunes App Store. The milestone confirms the continued popularity of the FileMaker Platform for creating custom business solutions that run […]
INTERESTING LAYOUT ANIMATION TECHNIQUE from Seedcode. There’s a video and download file at the link: The animations introduced in FM13 are great, but they still don’t let us animate the transition from one layout to another. This is something we’re looking for as it’s often used in iOS apps to move from list to detail […]
FILEMAKER DIDN’T SHARE all of the improvements in FileMaker 13. Emory Brown found them for us. FileMaker 13 introduced many new features, including a number of very useful enhancements to the relationship graph, none of which are included in the help file or release notes. This is rather surprising, as several of these improvements to […]
Robert Monasky: can't read the whole article. Tried clicking on "Read the whole thing." which isn't a link. How do I get…
Don Clark: I added a link to that phrase. Try it now.