Last week I rode my bike and listened. Sadly, a flat tire and a 2 mile walk home interrupted my listening session. Today it’s much colder, so I’m hoping this will keep my mind off the cold while I ride: Thu, 13 November 2014 323_FM_Success_Tips No Spaghetti Please, Yosemite, Balance Calculation Direct download: 323_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted […]
Tim Dietrich announced a new open source piece of ‘Easy’ software (free, powerful software like FMEasySynch, FMEasyMaps, and much more): FMEasyWeb: I originally started working on EasyWeb more than four years ago. The goal was to provide a lightweight, minimalist, extremely fast and extremely reliable browser-based tool for accessing FileMaker databases. I wanted EasyWeb to […]
Kevin Frank posted a series on different ways to export user friendly reports to Excel back in 2011. The information is still useful today: To recap, clients have requested three things: User-friendly column headings Calculated fields or the virtual equivalent (I call these pseudo-fields) An interface to make it easy Well, with regard to number 1, […]
Time flies when you’re having fun. John Sindelar from Seedcode posted an example of drag and drop he built for Devcon 2009: Love this little demo we put together for FileMaker DevCon 2009. A customer recently asked about this and I thought folks might like to see it. The demo shows how to create a grid […]
Douglas Alder’s getting started guide is full of great information and a must read for anyone thinking about developing with FileMaker for a living: FileMaker has a bit of a push on right now to get new developers into working with the FileMaker Pro platform. They recently launched a webpage on their main website to […]
This addendum for FileMaker Go app is a pretty handy reference of functions, script steps, error codes, etc. The link below takes you to a page in French. Here’s the translation of the download screen for those of us not able to read French: The addendum supports multiple languages: Addendum is an application that lists the […]
A very slick method to integrate a progress bar into you FileMaker Pro 13 solutions. This method uses the new FileMaker commend, base64Encode, a custom function, and three new fields to add to your solution. Very easy to integrate, and very nice output for your clients! While developing videos for their FileMaker Pro video course (www.learningfilemaker.com) […]
Benjamin Fehr of Efficient Buzz started a conversation with me a few weeks ago when he wrote a custom function that allowed a user to send an Apple notification to the operating system from FileMaker. And now, Doug Alder has posted on this subject with more detail: FileMaker developers (and other app developers) are always […]
I ‘m not sure where to start with this new post by Kevin Frank: The overall goal of the presentation was to explore various ways one might move business or presentation logic out of its normal location in the schema layer, and into either a) the data layer, or b) some other, non-standard, schematic realm. […]
It’s sometimes amazing how time wasting the smallest things can be. Take the subject of the blog post by David Thorpe of Excelisys. The object is to, in one script, keep a popover from dismissing if clicked anyway other than with a specific menu item: You tap the bookmarks icon, it pops down a popover with […]
File this one under “something useful I learned today that someday will come in handy.” Somehow I did not remember (or perhaps really understand the use of) the use of the FieldComment function. But I have had times where having the comments available in the data viewer when in layout mode would have been helpful. […]
Douglas Alder puts his virtual list to good use again (the last time was for vcard export) to export calendar (.ics) files from FileMaker to just about any calendar program. EXPORT ICS CALENDAR FORMAT FILES The purpose of this module and scripts are to export an .ics file for importing into Calendar applications. The scripts anticipate […]
I’ve wanted to meet Joe Montana since his glory days winning the national championship at Notre Dame in the late 70’s. The dude was always cool, more so under pressure. The closest I came was meeting Lou Holtz in the early 90’s when he was head coach at Notre Dame. Another inspiring person, Holtz had […]
Do you look for new ways to develop FileMaker solutions? Are you on the bleeding leading edge? I’ll bet most of you are, if only because your clients challenge you to on a routine basis to more than you thought possible, or to find a better way to do it. Jacob Unsworth, of Linear Blue, […]
Addendum for FileMaker | All things Filemaker ...: […] This addendum for FileMaker Go app is a pretty handy reference of functions, script steps, error codes, etc. The…
Sébastien S.: There is now a dedicated website in english for this app : http://addendum.fmdata.fr/en