Live Thursday, 9-13-18 at 11 EDT fmEZCharts lets you easily build amazing charts in FileMaker…and it’s free! Tune in to Facebook live Thursday, 9-13-18, to learn about fmEZCharts, the latest brainchild of Ernest Koe and Brian Ouimette. Ernest is the CEO of Proof Group: The Proof Group partners with small and medium size companies and […]
Learn how to add a google based HTML chart to your FileMaker solution, courtesy of Richard Carlton of RC Consulting. The process is pretty simple: Find a chart on the google chart page Click to see details Copy the HTML code Copy it into a webviewer Add the code to make it a data […]
For the more adventurous developers out there, Aaron Giard brings the fourth in his series on using jQuery inside a FileMaker webviewer to build and display charts. But don’t be intimidated! Using jQuery for charts can be broken down into a discrete set of actions: Download the Chart.js library from Github (there is a zip download […]
TOO MANY DATA POINTS on the x-axis can be a big problem for some data series in a FileMaker Chart. David Nahodyl of BlueFeather has shared a very nice solution he developed. FileMaker has extremely functional charts, but one tricky part I’ve found is making the x-axis display in an appealing format. The values along the […]
JEREMY BROWN uses global fields and ExecuteSQL to create context free, dynamic charts: Charts are great visual tools, but they can quickly get messy and difficult to read. A chart that compares sales of different products throughout the year would get very unreadable if all the products were listed for all the months of the year. Instead, […]
A VERY SLICK WAY to bypass a slow custom function and speed up drawing a chart. The second thing you’ll note is that performance (assuming you’re testing this locally, not on a LAN or WAN) is quite zippy — on my machine it takes about 1 second to process 50,000 records, and less than 2 seconds […]
A GREAT PRIMER ON CHARTS in FileMaker 13 from Kevin Franks at FileMakerhacks: Recent versions of FileMaker make it super simple to build a “current found set” chart even if you have absolutely no idea what you’re doing. Just a) sort on any field, and then b) choose “Chart by” + the field you just […]