THE PATTERNCOUNT FUNCTION is often overlooked, but very useful in some situations. There are times when, as a developer, you need to find some way to uniquely identify a record (or records) where you do not have a key you can look up. Or even a full word. PatternCount helps mightily at those times: If FileMaker functions had […]
A VERY CLEVER WAY to trigger a script on another #filemaker client by #clickworks. The core secret is to use the #onrecordload script trigger to run when a user deletes a record on the remote client. Since it is a script being triggered, almost anything you can script can be triggered on the remote host. […]
PART TWO of MindFire Solutions video series on Popovers: This video tells about some ways a popover can be used in our databases such as a custom menu or a custom dialog box. More information is also mentioned in the summary of this video. The Agenda of the popover video is as below, What is […]
JOHN SINDELAR of Seedcode shows how Javascript can really extend FileMaker’s capabilities and speed things up at the same time, both with UI tools and a library of other tools to work with code: JavaScript Functions in FileMaker are Fast Looping through 49,000 characters took our tail-recursive custom function almost 3 seconds. The JavaScript version of […]
TODD GEIST posted a solution at Modular FileMaker that builds FileMaker URL’s on the fly – regular web URL’s and FMP URL’s both: url ( “http://www.geistinteractive.com” ) & urlBasicAuth ( “admin” ; “password” ) & urlPath ( “contacts” ) & urlPath ( “23345” ) & urlParam ( “max” ; “100” ) & urlParam ( “skip” ; […]
MINDFIRE SOLUTIONS has started a new series of FileMaker 13 videos. The first is on popovers: This video is about the basics of a popover. It mentions what a popover is and how a simple popover button can be created along with the specified settings as well as the way to design it. The Agenda of […]
MICHAEL ROCHARDE is doing a series of animated videos you might find useful during the sales process. The first is on printing out reports when it isn’t necessary: Why go to all the trouble of printing reports that nobody will ever look at? It’s a good question and yet business do it all the […]
THE LET FUNCTION is the main function that allows you to write functions similar to php and other languages. You can declare variables on the fly that only exist while the function is evaluating, and not have to clean them up afterward. You can manipulate data to the nth degree and return a result (or not) that you […]
HAT TIP TO Didier Daglinckx for this find. Clarify-it is a single app you can use to capture, edit, explain, and share the information you need to explain/train other people: You need to communicate clearly and quickly. But creating screen recordings and messing with formatting in Word can be time consuming and frustrating. That is why […]
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THIS PRESS RELEASE about the FileMaker Server update is a bit sparse on information. It evidently addresses a ‘security issue’ of unknown provenance. Nevertheless, it’s probably appropriate to install it on both Mac and Windows servers. Software Description This software updates version 13.0v3 of FileMaker Server to version 13.0v4. For instructions on running the updater, […]
MATT LARSEN, a Senior Systems Engineer at Cimbura.com, posted on a very cool idea–using a FileMaker solutions to build a web based signature block of HTML that you can host on a web server, then link that code in you outgoing emails. The result? High quality signature blocks in all of your emails to all […]
MACWORLD AUSTRALIA features an article by FileMaker Developer Brad Taylor isolating a unique set of values in a list: Given a long list of items, it’s often useful to distill it down to a unique set. This script imports a table, looks at the target field, and then displays two windows – one showing the first […]
THE FOUTH AND LAST of Anvilworks blog posts on WebDirect has a bit of a twist–it’s about using WebDirect on non iOS devices, Androids in particular. Nine tips are offered up to help speed development. I like Tip 2 in particular: TIP 2 – Emulate Target Devices One of THE COOLEST features of Google Chrome’s Developer’s […]
FMSIMPLICITY just added a new MailChimp module to Modular FileMaker that looks pretty interesting. If you have a need to integrate FileMaker with MailChimp, this module will get you started: More than 6 million people use MailChimp to create, send, and track email newsletters. You can now integrate their amazing product directly into FileMaker… There are currently two dependencies: […]
Free URL Builder at Modular FileMaker | Filemak...: […] TODD GEIST posted a solution at Modular FileMaker that builds FileMaker URL’s on the fly – regular web URL’s…