Claris FileMaker is a fantastic tool for solving business problems. With the tool, we can create apps that both streamline and automate difficult and tedious tasks, thereby giving us time to explore other ways to expand our business and better serve our customers. Behind every effective FileMaker app is an equally powerful server. The on-premise […]
FileMaker Goodies I’ve been collecting interesting links here and there, saving them up to share. Here goes in no particular order: Douglas Alder sends web data directly to FileMaker (with a free FileMaker Example File at the link): Ever wish there was a way to ‘Send to FileMaker’ from your Web Browser? Turns out there […]
Date Magic, Backup Magic, Googles Onhub, and more Michael Rocharde shares a powerful, fairly simple way to handle reservations for just about anything: It’s a common scenario. You’ve got a reservation system of some kind or another and you have a limited number of resources available. When you add a reservation (for a specific date), […]
Tips for Updating a FileMaker iOS App Giedrius Godelaitis of YZY SOFT follows up on a his first post about updating FileMaker solutions with a well documented solution to updating FileMaker iOS Apps: I am so thrilled, amazed and look forward for new opportunities with new FileMaker iOS App SDK. I’ve developed a technique for updating FileMaker […]
One Click Update Giedrius Godelaitis of YZY Soft offers a new look at an old challenge: How to simplify rolling out updates to clients: Like every FileMaker developer, I was also looking for a bunch of different techniques to make my solution do what I want to do. I found lots of different and very useful […]
MirrorSync 2 from 360Works In January of 2015, Jesse Barnum presented to the New Mexico FileMaker User Group for over two hours, all of it on MirrorSync. He showed us how MirrorSync2 works, how to set it up, how to configure different options, and showed us actual synch operations from: FileMaker Server to FileMaker Server […]
Wim Decorte of Soliant answers a common question found on forums: “How can I exclude my externally stored container content from a backup run?”… If the container data is fairly static and you can exclude it from the backup then you could save roughly 100GB on each backup run and not fill up the hard […]
Matt Petrowsky takes Tim Dietrich’s FMEasySynch and, as is his wont, makes it easier to use by building a database: Having recently arrived at the need for a syncing solution for a pro bono database, my options were pretty much limited to “create your own” or use what’s free. It turns out that FMEasySync, from […]
IF YOU NEED TO SYNCH FILEMAKER FILES, take a look at EasySynch. Version 1.2 is now downloadable. It’s free, easy to implement, and does the job. Make’s it a no brainer: A Decidedly Different Approach to Syncing FileMaker Databases Looking for an easy, powerful, and reliable way to sync FileMaker databases? You’ve come to the […]
This is tricky – plan for this before you have to restore….Thanks to Dan Burgess for writing about this. Restoring FileMaker 12 Backups With Managed Containers.