I read a lot of blog posts every day, and see a lot of fine ideas well presented. And once in a while I see an idea that is so faran outside the box that it it makes me say Oh My God, that’s brilliant! Or, as is so common in the texting world, OMG. […]
An entertaining and informative article by Douglas Alder about getting out of a locked screen on FileMaker Go: FileMaker Go has a great new features called ‘Reconnect to Server’, which helps keep your database connection open if your iPad/iPhone falls asleep or your WiFi connection gets dodgy. This great new feature can become a problem if your […]
Upgrading to FileMaker Go 14 is not quite as easy as you might think. Especially if you want to keep earlier versions (for demo to clients, or due to limitation of a particular system for compatibility). At any rate, it’s easy if you don’t have any existing files to take from FileMaker Go 13 or […]
One of the most vexing–and potentially time consuming–problems for FileMaker developers is building navigation menu bars for complex solutions. Each navigation menu was usually context sensitive and therefore hard to copy and paste between different layouts. A lot of work went into making and testing the changes. Over the years, there have been several very […]
FileMaker 14 is out, and loaded with new features. Yesterday we looked at the following: The new, flat design The new Launch Center The new Script Workspace Enhancements to WebDirect New design tools Today we’ll look at more new features, starting with… FileMaker 14 Server enhancements: Auto reconnect to serve in the event of a […]