Are you ready to engage in some blatant self promotion at FileMaker Devcon 2015? How? Simply stop by the FileMaker Pro Gurus Suite at the Cosmo anytime during the days of the conference. We’ll have a four camera shoot rolling all the time, and we’ll be meeting, greeting, and interviewing attendees, exhibitors, and anyone wanting […]
If you need to use a double click in FileMaker–and learn more about the sequence of passing script parameters–this video is for you. Richard Carlton shows off Andy Person’s double click script and details what happens behind the scene. Single click here to access the FileMaker DoubleClick Cleverness demo file.
Check out this free SVG Icon FileMaker Database from Indats: I’ve always been a big fan of Syncfusion’s Metro Studio tool which has an excellent selection of royalty free icons, but they didn’t export to SVG very well for Filemakers purposes, so I created a little database that lets you search and find icons like […]
Michael and I had a very nice conversation on the phone this past Monday morning, talking about FileMaker and business in general. We also discussed the Excel vs. FileMaker series he has produced–this one being the third in the series: Here are some more side-by-side comparisons between Excel and FileMaker but, before we move onto them, I should […]
FileMaker 14 has plenty of new features, and I thought I knew all the major (and a lot of the minor) ones. But one completely escaped my attention until I read about it on Weetbicks (Digital Fusion’s blog page: Navigation Parts. Navigation Parts are a brand layout feature with the following characteristics: There is a top […]
EfficientBizz: Just one thing I hardly miss: Option enable/disable Zoom for Navigation Parts. Currently, it's disabled by default. Otherwise, we could…
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. […]
FileMaker 14 WebDirect is very robust–much faster, more capability. But it lacks the one thing common to all web browsers: robust printing capabilities. Mike Beargie of MainSpring wrote about this last year at Devcon about WebDirect 13, and I just stumbled across his series of posts. The second concerned using CSS to print all existing layouts instead […]
Michael Rocharde follows up his 5 video Part 1 post on Excel vs FileMaker with a great example of the benefits of relational databases over spreadsheets: Entering data one time and using it over and over again, without having to type it in again. Excel is an extraordinarily powerful tool for those functions it does […]
Another in the FTS:Basics series from UKFileMaker. These videos are great for those learning the basics. And there’s always something for the experienced developer, as well. Published on Jun 5, 2015 Join us for the fifth in a series of six webinars designed to complement your learning via FTS:Basics, the official self-paced training curriculum from […]
I reached out for help on a vexing problem a couple of days ago, and, with the help of FileMaker Advanced Support and a very good cloud provider, found the answer to the problem of FileMaker Server 14 WebDirect not working correctly: The cloud provider, MacinCloud, had some form of filtering enabled on a device […]
Yesterday’s post on RemoteScripter brought a comment from Jan Stieperaere of ClickWorks about his very clever way of running a script on a remote FileMaker Client. We covered this earlier this year, and now Richard Carlton has updated the video to include FileMaker 14. The download file at ClickWorks shows a basic messaging system as well as another […]
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 […]
360Works’ RemoteScripter is a great piece of software for running scripts on a client–from a server or another client. Kind of like the Perform Script on Server (PSoS), only backwards. I used RemoteScripter years ago to allow Internet Web Publishing (IWP) clients to print pdf’s on a robot client running on the server. The IWP user clicked […]
Jan Stieperaere: Hi Don, I also wanted to suggest the option to use the 'perform script on other client' method of me.…
Don Clark: Hi Jan- Thanks for the feedback. I remember that video (I posted on it in January) and I remember that…
I’m looking for some help from my great readers. I have not been able to make FMS 14 WebDirect work. When a user logs on to the WebDirect site, the available files flash for a moment, then a spinning wheel appears. And never leaves. So far, FileMaker support, FileMaker forums, and FileMaker Bug Report have […]
Claus Lavendt: If you are accessing from Safari, you are very likely seeing that it redirects to https. As some of the…
Don Clark: Thanks for the help, Claus! I'll give it a try. FWIW, I am having this problem on Mac: Safari, Firefox,…
William T. Miller: Hi don, Since you let me interview you for my book, I can return the favor and finally meet you…