THIS APP IS OFF TO A PROMISING START, but has one major drawback: It requires a pricey, yet highly useful, MBS plugin. Nevertheless, this first version lays the groundwork for a pretty useful tool for most developers: A couple of weeks ago I started to think about a solution to automatize some of the “every […]
GOOD LISTENING–I like to listen while I ride my bike around in the morning. Thu, 4 September 2014 313_FM_Success_Tips Moving records from one table to another, Getting a temp desktop path Direct download: 313_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 6:00 PM FileMaker Success Tips 313
GETTING SERIOUS: The fourth video in this series is ambitious, covering relational design, primary and foreign keys, drop down menus, container fields, and much more: Published on Aug 29, 2014 Join us for the fourth in a series of six webinars designed to complement your learning via FTS:Basics, the official self-paced training curriculum from FileMaker, Inc. […]
WE CALL IT THE “BUS BOOK“, although a more apt title would be the “Bus Database”. What happens to a business if the key person gets hit by a bus? Well, if all the knowledge is stored in their head, the business is headed for a rough spell from which it may not recover. Michael Rocharde’s short […]
BUT DO PEOPLE LIKE THEM? Hollow icons and flat design are all the rage in design circles, but I think they are boring. It’s like taking a step backward in design. This study is interesting in the fact that there are some other considerations to consider: Is there a difference in usability? Curt Arledge tested this […]
DAVE FELDMAN discusses the evolution of design over the past 20 years of so, and it’s interesting reading: Lately, every app is “beautiful”. If you read tech news, you’ve seen this pageant: Beautiful charts and graphs. Beautiful stories. Beautiful texting. Beautiful notebooks. Beautiful battery information. Aspiring to beauty in our designs is admirable. But it doesn’t guarantee usability, nor is […]
IT SEEMS THERE IS NO END to the ways FileMaker can be extended with jQuery and other web tools. Aaron Giard and Stephan Bansemer combined to make use of jQuery’s “Draggable” and “Resizable”functions to perform some pretty neat tricks: By using the demo HTML code for ‘Draggable’ and ‘Resizable’ interactions from jQueryUI.com, Stephan was able to create […]
VINCENZO MENNANO OF BEEZWAX shows off a new way to set up button image masks in FileMaker, replacing image tables and global fields. Another great benefit: a website that provides free icons of the type needed to implement this technique: iconsdb. In layout mode create a square object. Click on the appearance tab in the inspector and […]
I SYMPATHIZE WITH THEIR VICTIMS: There are so many people out there whose agenda is to sell their solution at all costs, and pay no attention to the needs of the client. This video has some great take-aways. Our confused business manager gets a valuable lesson in how to deal with people who try to baffle […]
THIS IS AN ISSUE I probably would never notice without it being pointed out: adjusting your layout size to allow for showing more data once the iOS status bar (the area where the time, battery status, and signal strength are shown) is turned off. And now that it has been pointed out, I will be […]
Michael Rocharde makes some good points in this video about the difference between professional, experienced developers and those not so experienced. As Richard Carlton put it in this video (and I paraphrase), you might want to build something small yourself–or have someone on your staff do it, but if you want an large office building designed and built, […]
TRIGGERING SCRIPTS on remote FileMaker clients using fmp-url. What does that mean, exactly? When a field is embedded in a web viewer, changing the content of the field causes the web viewer to reset. Other users with the web viewer object on their screen (in FileMaker, of course) can get notified via a script trigger on […]
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CONVERTING OLD FILEMAKER FILES is pretty straightforward most of the time–but you gotta watch out for the gotcha’s, like plugin compatibility and sloppy calculations. Learn more in this video. Oh, and one more piece of advice: Converting Old FileMaker Files to the .fmp12 Format (FileMaker 13) – YouTube.
I DON’T RUN ACROSS too many businesses guilty of running their businesses completely or almost completely with spreadsheets. But it was pretty common not too long ago. I do still see businesses with really old DOS based systems, and those are a challenge to convert Have you ever really thought about the drawbacks of using […]
FYI - iOS Status Bar In FileMaker Go - FileMake...: […] How do you handle the problem of proper screens size when the user toggles the iOS status bar on…
Mogens Brun: "But in this case, there is no way (yet) to turn of the iOS Status bar with a FileMaker command."…
FYI - iOS Status Bar In FileMaker Go - FileMake...: […] “ How do you handle the problem of proper screens size when the user toggles the iOS status bar…
Mauro Navarro: I do not know what you meant by "Cut the layout size down and they have it turned on, it…