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 […]
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 […]
MAKING OBJECTS INVISIBLE in FileMaker 13 – the pros and cons: Using the hidden object attribute not only works on text and tab control panels, but also other objects like portals and fields. These become completely invisible when the condition is true. A few things to consider: For tab panels this is an all-or-none deal […]
PRODUCTIVE COMPUTING is hosting FM 13 and Webdirect (and earlier versions, as well). Published on Jan 24, 2014 What makes more sense than to have certified FileMaker Pro experts providing FileMaker Pro hosting? Productive Computing, Inc. (PCI) is dedicated to personally walking each customer through their hosting setup process so that it is easy and […]
HAVE YOU MASTERED IT YET? FileMaker 13 Server Admin is web based and much improved. To administer FileMaker Server, you can use Admin Console on the computer where FileMaker Server is running or on any computer that has network access to the master machine running FileMaker Server. To secure remote administration, Admin Console uses Secure Sockets […]
POPOVERS BRING BIG CHANGES TO LAYOUT DESIGN: Published on Jan 21, 2014 Vertical navigation is once again popular on the web, particularly on data driven sites. In FileMaker, the typical navigation pattern is often a horizontal menu bar. Some developers incorporate vertical navigation in their systems with the use of a portal. Unfortunately, the portal alone […]
A PEEK UNDER THE THEMES HOOD: It is true that FileMaker handles some themes and styles in CSS. So yes, there is really CSS that is used. You don’t have to worry about learning CSS, because the interface for managing everything is part of the updated inspector (Appearance pane) that gives unprecedented access to all […]
Darren Burgess shows how calculated Tab Panel Names and Custom Dialogue buttons have added more functionality to developers while decreasing layout maintenance. FileMaker users and developers should note the addition of calculated Custom Dialog buttons and Tab Panel names as one of the new features of FileMaker 13. While these are relatively small changes, […]
TROI’S POWERFUL ACTIVATOR PLUGIN IS NOW FM 13 COMPATIBLE. I like the ability to activate a script on a remote computer. Activator Plug-in 3.5.2 Ever wanted to tell other users you changed an appointment or ask someone to get out of a record? Now you can with Troi Activator Plug-in! The Activator is a […]
James Wesolowski of Colibri Solutions found and solved a FileMaker Go 13 header preview problem. And wants to know if anyone else has found a better solution… The Task We want to hide the column headers on the terms and conditions pages. That’s no problem in FileMaker Pro 13. In our print and output to […]
FileMaker Pro 13 Hosting Information Point In Space is committed to providing hosting of the latest technologies as soon as possible. As such, we are now offering immediate availability of FileMaker Pro 13 hosting on FileMaker Server 13.FileMaker Pro 13 and Server 13 offer many new features, including: New design features – make it faster and […]
Matt Petrowsky on FileMaker Go UI changes, including using gestures, hidden buttons, and much more. FileMaker 13 introduced a number of new features. While the feature list seemed a bit short, at least to the feature greedy developer, the new mobile specific features of Gesture taps, Popovers and Sliders will provide a wide variety of […]
Greg Lane of Skeleton Key: Pros and Cons of the Perform Script Step on Server: FileMaker 13′s new Perform Script on Server script step provides new opportunities for optimizing performance and it enables access to features that were previously unavailable to remote FileMaker Go clients. Our FMRPC product and other techniques have allowed this type of functionality […]
Yet another favorable review of FileMaker 13 – with the exception of the new pricing structure. Key takeaway: Even bigger than better tablet support is a new, streamlined method for deploying FileMaker databases online – called WebDirect. Powered by HTML5, the new feature takes away the need to marry backend database to a frontend using […]
Popovers and Vertical Navigation - Part 2 - FileMakerProGurus: [...] THE SECOND VIDEO on popovers and vertical navigation from Danial Shanahan (Part 1 here). [...]