THE THIRD PART of Anvil Blog’s series on WebDirect dives deep into the heart of FileMaker’s own files to allow you to change the titles in WebDirect. They warn you in the article that this is not supported by FileMaker, and that future versions of FileMaker could break your hard work. This is not for […]
COLIBRI SOLUTIONS worked out a clever way to print from FileMaker Go 13 via Bluetooth to portable printers. It’s not as straightforward as you would think: …This solution requires a standalone FileMaker Go solution that prints to a Bluetooth Zebra mobile printer (imz220 or imz320). As it turns out, this is not as easy to […]
CHECK OUT the Devcon specials running for a limited time: Seedcode: All FileMaker Templates & Extensions 20% off Devcon Special: The 20% is taken off after you add your items to the shopping cart. Feedzon: Announces new features and updates for Devcon. These web services include: •OCR for documents •OCR business card scanner •SMS (sending & receiving) •Much, […]
I’VE WANTED Save and Edit Buttons in FileMaker since I first used it in 1989. I was using Omnis Pro 5 at the time, and it had that built in back then. Load a record, click edit, make changes, click save. Pretty simple, it seemed to me. Well, James Wesolowski and Colibri Solutions have made use […]
This custom function was brought to my attention the it’s creator, Caleb Miranda. Simple, and when you find a use for it, easy to implement: This function has the purpose of retrieving a simple value from another table. It always seemed so obvious for me, but I didn’t find it before The idea is, one […]
JAMES CURRIE of Weetbicks shows off a neat little trick to add rows to a FileMaker portal using the FileMaker 13 field to conditionally hide fields. Hiding the contents of the last row We can now specify a simple calculation to hide the contents of the last row. We select all the objects that we […]
Mid Design steps, Raspberry Pi, The value of decoupled scripts Filemaker Success Tips : 306_FM_Success_Tips.
GEIST INTERACTIVE released a new version of GoDraw. This powerful tool allows a user to draw lines, shapes, text and more on the mobile device and capture the changes in FileMaker: Draw on JPEGs or PNGs Draw with Line, Shape and Text Tools Place and arrange other images and icons on the canvas Adjust Fonts, […]
DESIGNING FOR IOS IS DIFFERENT, and requires a developer to re-think the interface. And as FileMaker evolves, new functions, like swipe commands, add more to the list of things to consider. Take some time to read the Apple Human Interface Guidelines and to watch this video: FileMaker Web Seminar: Top 10 Things to Think About When […]
HATS OFF TO COLIBRI SOLUTIONS FOR A GREAT SUCCESS STORY. Not to mention a pretty slick FileMaker Go solution that ended up saving their client $40,000. Here’s the situation: Our display contractors are quite literally our “feet on the street,” and the poster installation process is labor-intensive. Our contractors must work to exacting standards, removing […]
NOT QUITE AS GOOD AS A DECODER RING, but still a handy little utility file. Stuart Gripman of FullCity Consulting built a little database that decodes over 3000 escape codes into regular english: Sometimes cutting and pasting content and code from websites can be fraught with frustration. Some of the biggest headache makers are escape codes- representations of […]
TIM DIETRICH OF FMAUTHENTICATOR (and FileMaker Addict, among others) offers two factor authentication through FileMaker: FMAuthenticator is a technique for implementing two-factor authentication (2FA) in the FileMaker database platform. What is Two-factor Authentication? Two-factor authentication requires users to provide two forms of identification before being granted access to a system. The two forms of identification […]
THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES ON DESIGN ASPECTS OF WEBSITES. While not directly about FileMaker, many of the concepts in this piece apply to general design principles for any computer base program: Charles Eames said, “The details are not the details. They make the design.” A website is a composite of details—and its content is communicated through […]
AARON GIARD of Scarpetta Group posted part 2 of his series on extending FileMaker’s capabilities with jQuery: For those of you who who have not read it, click to read part 1 of this series to get a preface on some of the techniques I am using to make this happen. I want to create a slider […]
Tony Ryan: Pity, but it only works for the current table. It hinted that it would work across unrelated tables.
caleb miranda: Well, I'm the author of the function, and I do not understand what you mean. It doesn't require any relationship…
Lodgestreet: Is it me or doesn't it work at all now? Maybe I'm doing something wrong? e.g. RequestSQL ( Contact::ContactFullName ;…