Mislav Kos of Soliant Consulting wrote a very handy, modular script that tells you which layouts contain a particular field: I wrote a blog post last month showing a way to quickly find where unstored calcs and summary fields are being used in a solution. This post is a sort of follow up, in that […]
Free PDF Markup in FileMaker Go 14 using TinyPDF The title says it all. Use a free program (tinypdf) to markup pdf files stored in FileMaker Go, There are several steps to this project and it’s well worth watching. Hat tip to Douglas Alder for linking this on Twitter. And to Joshua Paul, of course, […]
The Paperless Office Going onsite to meet with clients is common for FileMaker developers. Sometimes it means traveling a good ways to do so. This article from Jamie Rubin showcases the technology he uses to make his mobile experiences more productive: Back in December 2012, I wrote a Going Paperless post that described my mobile, […]
Why FileMaker, indeed. Of all the database applications out there, FileMaker has numerous advantages. Firstly it is cross platform which means it runs on Windows, Macs and IOS devices, using FileMaker Go (which I refer to as a thin client). This gives any company that is using it multiple deployment options and can be used […]
Links to various design resources I’ve found while browsing the web. Lots of vector image packs here: 38 Freebies & Goodies For Web Designers – November 2015 Get a grip on the basics of CSS: Introduction to CSS In case you need more CSS: Understanding CSS Grids for Modern WordPress Website Design Throw in a […]
Attendance Tracking The big takeaway from this video on making an attendance tracking database by Guy Stevens is the use of a join table to make many-to-many relationships. Not a big deal to experienced developers, but a problem for beginners and some intermediate developers. Stevens is doing a lot of good instructional work at Udemy.com, […]
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 […]
Lee Strong and Dr. Andy Cohen missed a week over Halloween for a good reason: Strong was hospitalized and now has an implant, but is back and sounding great. I’m glad to hear you are doing well, Lee! If you don’t listen to episode for anything else, listen to the part about how to remove a host […]
Links from my wandering around the web: Read both links first if you want to avoid problems: FileMaker Update 14.0.4 Update for Pro and Advanced (Read this before you do the 14.0.4 update!) Coming Up: Web Design Trends and Predictions for 2016 Coming together: Productive Computer’s Outlook Manipulator and Exchange Manipulator are now One Hal Gumbert and Tim […]
So, the difference between responsive and adaptive design for web pages (and WebDirect and FileMaker PHP pages) is significant: The differences between responsive and adaptive design approaches spotlight important options for us as web and app designers. Choosing with insight can empower you to plan and execute your designs with better aim, purpose and results. […]
Just in case you missed this, FileMaker 12 Support ends next September: As of September 23, 2016, FileMaker 12 products will no longer be available for direct sales and support including technical support, replacement media, downgrade media, and downgrade license keys. FileMaker 12 products include: FileMaker Pro 12 FileMaker Pro 12 Advanced FileMaker Server 12 […]
Website design principles port over to FileMaker development principles to a surprising degree. Most FileMaker developers keep a set of templates available for getting basic projects started: Contact, Businesses, Inventory, CRM, etc. This makes it easier and cheaper to provide a custom solution for a client. Other items to keep available: Custom functions, plugins, modular […]
Tim Cimbura: The assumption at the end says it all. "A well-designed database is easily expandable." There are a lot of very…
Don Clark: Yes indeed, Tim. So do we.
Check out the crazy things you can capture using a custom solution comprising Tesseract OCR and an open source program called Tika. Richard Carlton and William Vaughn discuss optical character recognition and how it can relate to FileMaker and FMSP.
The GetAsCSS function has been around since FileMaker Version 7, and I have to admit to never having used it before a few days ago. I recently integrated CloudMail (from 360Works) into a FileMaker project, and for version 1 my client was planning text only emails. Jesse Barnum noted in his instructional video that basic […]
Nick Ciske: We do this all the time -- almost all modern WordPress themes are responsive, so you can easily setup a…
Don Clark: If you ever do release them, Nick, let me know. I'll buy.