FileMaker Custom Function:Show(objectName)
SHOW AN OBJECT based upon the active field. Nice little function.
SHOW AN OBJECT based upon the active field. Nice little function.
GOOD ADVICE from Entrepreneur.com: What does “click-worthy” mean? Besides the general “worthy of clicking and viewing/reading,” it means that users are able to find the information you want them to find and take the actions you want them to take.
DID YOU EVER WISH you could make a multi-pin map in FileMaker? Douglas Alder did, and he made it happen: My goal was to make a simple modular and portable script that developers (myself included) could just paste into their solution and modify a few steps and have it up and running quickly. This demo […]
COOL – FILEMAKER PRO talking to Google Earth: One of our graduate students here at UC is investigating the movement of artifacts from the origin to archaeological find spot. She had been gathering her data in a FileMaker Pro database and wanted to be able to visualize the quantity of material either sourced or found in […]
KEVIN FRANKS extends his excellent series of posts on virtual lists – this time showing how to displays 3 columns of the same data in browse mode: Recently a question came up on the FMP Experts list re: the possibility of displaying a found set of customers in 3 columns in browse mode in FileMaker […]
NIFTY LITTLE Execute SQL function that returns the highest set (n) of values from a field. FileMaker Custom Function:TopResults ( FieldName ; TableName ; Results).
UKFILEMAKER strikes again – a short video extolling the virtues of FileMaker’s core strengths. FileMaker “Escape from Excel” Event at Look Mum No Hands! Café in Old Street, London – YouTube.
ANOTHER GREAT AUDIO from FileMaker Success Tips. 282_FM_Success_Tips Big Imports, Flashterm, Managing new field names Filemaker Success Tips : 282_FM_Success_Tips
VERY NICE WAY to write server log details to file, including a workaround to a bug that causes improper shutdown of the log service. It turns out that when the Log client statistics…. check box is checked, this data is logged to (on Mac OS) /Library/FileMaker Server/Logs/ClientStats.log. But only when this check box is ticked […]
YET ANOTHER handy custom function. Correctly format any UK telephone number Sample Input: UKPhoneMask ( 01234567890 )UKPhoneMask ( 01134960018 )UKPhoneMask ( 02079460018 ) Sample Output: 01234 567890113 496 0018020 7946 0018
FILEMAKER IS PUSHING SECURITY pretty heavily – there is an upcoming seminar on February 11th, as well as a new downloadable pdf. Data protection is a priority for businesses of all sizes. In 2012, the Wall Street Journal cited this alarming statistic, “Firms with 11 to 100 employees are attacked more than ten times as […]
A HANDY PLACE to find all the manuals and documentation from FM 10 to 13, as well as Bento.
I’VE TRIED THIS BEFORE and it does not work… Is this story familiar to you? A business person who is successful in their field but starting to get bogged down in the day to day running of their business. In particular, administration and bookkeeping are starting to grind and take the shine out of their […]
GETTING YOUR HEAD around the whole script trigger concept is quite challenging. Mislav Kos developed a visual that ties it all together: There are quite a few nuances in how FileMaker script triggers function. Two of the more straightforward ones are the sequence that script triggers evaluate in (e.g. OnObjectKeystroke fires before OnLayoutKeystroke) and the […]
Bar Charts in Google Earth from FileMaker - EASY APPS!: [...] Original article here. [...]