Hiring Subcontractors – Setting Expectations This week Susan Fennema and I get into the details of Hiring Subcontractors in our second video: Setting Expectations What to Expect What forms should a subcontractor sign before beginning work – and can you even hire a subcontractor? Why you ned an NDA Why you need a subcontractor agreement […]
A novel twist on the Separation model: The Function-Separation Model John Renfrew, Director at Attitude in the UK, wrote about using the new FileMaker 16 Card window function in a unique way: Add new functionality by calling a separate function file that does all the work (you send it parameters), returns the info to the […]
Managing SubContractors and Project Management Join Susan Fennema – Chaos Eradicating Officer, Beyond the Chaos , Brandon Hayes (Director of Business Relations – Kalos Consulting, Inc.) and me in the first of six videos on Managing SubContractors and Project Management. The video series started today on Facebook at 11 Eastern…and I have shared it on […]
FileMaker cURL One of the most powerful and, probably, least appreciated features of FileMaker 16 is the support of cURL. So what is cURL? Here’s what Wikipedia has to say: cURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols. The cURL project produces two products, libcurl and cURL. It was first released in 1997. The […]
Do you want to use FileMaker on Android as an App? It’s tantalizingly close to real, but might still slip away. If you want or need FileMaker on Android, get over to LiveCode Native now. Kevin Miller, founder of LiveCode and LiveCode for FM, needs your help to finance this venture. LiveCode already offers a plugin for […]
Excel Exports using XML and XSLT All FileMaker developers spend time figuring out how to export FileMaker data in a usable format for their clients. Kevin Frank had a series of posts on just that subject (link in the next paragraph below). There is way to export data from FileMaker using XML and XSLT, but […]
FileMaker Document Management You may have missed this great post by Nicolas Hunter on FileMaker Document Management on LinkedIn recently. Are you on LinkedIn? If not, get busy and make an account – you are missing out on great business resource for learning and connecting with other business professionals. Back to FileMaker Document Management: Richard Carlton […]
Four and one half years ago, FileMakerProGurus was born at this desk… In this house… My office was to the right of the chimney, second floor. So What? Why do you bring this up? I don’t live there any longer…but I still own the house, and it’s now an AirBNB/VRBO (Vacation Rental By Owner) […]
FileMaker to Amazon Database I’ve blogged for four and a half years now, and in the past two years I’ve seen an incredible increase in both the quantity and quality of blogging in the FileMaker world. I’ve also noticed better posts, better writing, and posts on an incredible breadth of subjects – web connectivity, design, […]
FileMaker 16 Progress Bar in a Card Window Vince Dolan of the Support Group shows a very slick way to easily build two types of FileMaker 16 progress bars using a Card window, a data viewer, and some basic html. There isn’t a downloadable file, but this is simple enough to put it together from […]
Web Viewer Integrations into a FileMaker Custom App Jeremy Brown is well known in the FileMaker community for his work with Web Viewer integrations: integrating javascript and more into FileMaker web viewers, writing a great free FileMaker demo database, and pushing the boundaries of the web viewer in FileMaker. Brown presented at FileMaker DevCon 2017 […]
FileMaker 16: Artificial Intelligence and JSON FileMaker 16 and Artificial Intelligence from Joris Arts of Clickworks: Watch this video to discover how easy it is now to integrate FileMaker with Artificial Intelligence using the new features of FileMaker 16. We use an AI for image recognition with a FileMaker custom app for a commercial casting bureau. […]
Faster Reports with PSOS and Virtual Lists Anders Monsen’s DevCon 2017 presentation is loaded with great tips about PSOS and Virtual Lists, something your clients need from time to time. He doesn’t stop there, however, as he combines the use of ExecuteSQL to really speed up reporting. If you haven’t heard of Virtual Lists, it’s […]
FileMaker API Integration: How to Interpret an API: From start to working code This DevCon presentation is the one I’ve been waiting for: Salvatore Colangelo’s presentation on connecting FileMaker to an API. Colangelo uses the metaphor of a recipe in his presentation, and the same recipe is followed every time you want to connect to […]
Alex: Thank you Don. This will be super useful...
Don Clark: Glad to hear it, Alex. Hope things are going well for you!