How Connecting FileMaker and Zoom API Worked Out In January, I posted about connecting FileMaker and Zoom – a fairly detailed view of the process necessary in a fairly long post. What I didn’t do was show you how it all works with in the (almost) final product for my client. The app is server […]
I have great FileMaker Go based solution, Drone Eutopia, to help them successfully run their Drone based business… If you know a commercial drone pilot that needs help running their business, contact me with their information. If they buy my , I’ll send you money. And your pilot friend will thank you. I am in […]
FileMaker Go Bug? 3/8/18 UPDATE It turns out to be the real bug: Thank you for your posts and movie file. I am able to reproduce the issue with FileMaker Go 16.0.4 under iOS 11.2.6 using an iPad Pro. I have sent all information, including a sample file, to our Development and Testing departments for […]
Make FileMaker Go Talk to IOS Apps Chris Ippolite, President of iSolutions, Inc., presented on One-Step Integration between FileMaker Go and iOS apps using fmp: scheme. The 5 minute video directly below is a summary of the areas Ippolite covers in the session. If you are not sure you are interested in this topic, watch […]
Synching FileMaker Mobile Apps Synching FileMaker mobile apps with the hosted file is not one of the more glamorous topics to cover, but is a necessary one to address as a developer. Katherine Russell, Senior Consultant at NightWing Enterprises, presented on this topic at FileMaker DevCon 2016: The environment of each file involved in a syncing […]
PDF in WebDirect by Jan Stieperaere of ClickWorks. Jan uses his ‘Perform script on other client’ method to pull this off. The other alternative I used in the past to pull this off was with 360Works RemoteScripter (and it worked with IWP). 82 Excellent Quotes by Clint Eastwood: “You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re […]
FileMaker iOS App SDK – that’s a mouthful. What exactly does it mean? It means you, as a developer, have a powerful new way to share your FileMaker solution to an iOS device– your iPhone or iPad, for example. It means vertical market solutions that open a the touch of a button, rather than having to open FileMaker […]
Tim Cimbura: More information here... http://cimbura.com/tech/2016/01/13/filemaker-mobile-ios-development-native-app-sdk/
Interesting links from my wanderings around the web Make your own, import, modify, buy existing sets, or get custom made: Free Icon Font, SVG, PDF and PNG Generator The latest from Dr. Andy Cohen and Lee Strong: Filemaker Success Tips 374: Who ya workin for?, Organizing your layouts, Relationship Graph approaches Some Seth Godin to start your […]
Web Clips and FileMaker Go How nice would it be to just click an icon on your iOS device’s desktop to directly open a specific FileMaker database (skipping opening FileMaker Go directly)? Andrew Duncan of Databuzz shows you, step by step, to make a web clip, the iOS equivalent of a shortcut you need to do […]
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 […]
For your technically challenged clients, Douglas Alder made a nicely illustrated, simply explained post about grabbing and sharing screen shots of FileMaker Go layouts on your iPad and iPhone: Communicating with your FileMaker application developer or other users of a database system can be greatly facilitated by the use of screenshots. Grabbing a screenshot from FileMaker Go is fairly easy to accomplish, […]
In 2012, I developed two FileMaker solutions for Children’s Cancer Fund of New Mexico. The first one was a contacts and event management solution with the following features: Contact management Donations received A dinner gala The Erin Trujeque Golf Tournament registration for teams and individuals Donations for both a silent auction and a live auction A car raffle […]
Jonathan Fletcher: So awesome, Don. Thanks for the inspiration!
Don Clark: Thanks, Jonathan.
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 […]
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 […]
Denis: Couldn't you just make the parent 5 sheets wide rather than with an two on top of each other?
Don Clark: We have several layouts with multiples already developed and did not discover the problem until later. Is an issue now,…
J Willing: So you want to scroll a portal that is underneath another slide panel? Why would the top panel not always…
J Willing: I just tested and by putting the portal on top of the inner panel, it scrolls fine. But It looks…
Don Clark: It turns out to be a real bug: Thank you for your posts and movie file. I am able to…
Joshua Willing: Nice find!
Don Clark: See my reply in your previous post - hopefully this will be patched soon.