THINKING OF DEVELOPING WITH FILEMAKER FULL TIME? You’ll want to read Molly Connelly’s latest on what you can expect to earn. She breaks it down from junior developer to technical lead: Technical Lead A Technical Lead is currently the most sought after FileMaker position in the industry. A technical lead not only has great technical […]
GET YOUR THINKING CAP ON before reading this Jason Young’s latest. Javascript is a robust scripting language with thousands of already written free routines–think of them as custom functions, if you’re having trouble wrapping your head around the concept. Using the fmp: protocol now available in FileMaker 13v2, developers can harness the power of these […]
SAVE MONEY by renewing your FileMaker licenses before FileMaker Increases Renewal Rates after June 27th, 2014. Quick Facts: -There is no penalty for renewing early. -New licenses purchased with renewals are offered at a lower rate until June 27,2014. -Maintenance program customers have the option to renew for two years for additional savings. -FileMaker will no longer […]
ALWAYS BE ON THE LOOKOUT for simple, effective tricks. Larry Keyes describes one such trick for building a quick and dirty FileMaker SQL Query Screen. Note that this isn’t a full-blown SQL implementation, it will only respond to SELECT statements. (You can’t INSERT or DELETE, for example. Also, if there any problems with your […]
I’LL ADMIT IT: I haven’t done much translating to and from Unicode. Kevin Franks has, and with an assist from Jeremy Bante, put together a FileMaker utility file with all of the conversions. This weekend I threw together a Unicode utility file (unicode-characters.zip). It takes the values 1 through 65535 and converts them into Unicode symbols, […]
SOMEHOW I missed this technique for counting unique records in a portal or found set. Thanks to Nick for tracking it down. …but how can I show a count of my sales people?” There are various ways to solve this problem, and it’s a problem worth solving, because once you have this technique under your […]
FORWARD AND BACK BUTTONS using the latest FileMaker capabilities. And best of all, it’s modular! Give Paul Jansen’s modular solution a test run–you’ll love it. BrowserNav adds web browser like layout navigation history and requires a single script, one custom function (Optional) and back and forward buttons. Once the script and custom function have been added to […]
A FAIRLY SHORT video showing how to build a versatile solution using FileMaker and FileMaker Go: Published on Apr 30, 2014 Need a custom business solution that works where you work; be that on train, plane, automobile, office, home, etc.? The FileMaker 13 Platform makes it easy for anyone to create custom business solutions for iPad, […]
I HADN’T given much thought to changing a timestamp from text to a timestamp. Didn’t even think it was necessary. But it turns out there are some instances where it is. Daniel Shanahan shows us how: FileMaker Server has a timestamp on its log. However, when you export the log data and import it into […]
AN INTERESTING LOOK at unintended consequences when working on a live FileMaker database by Kevin Franks. I’ve experienced occasional problems when doing so and was not able to reproduce them. It seems that if a user adds a new record (manually or via script) while the developer is doing any of the following causes the problem: […]
TROI announced the beta release of their powerful File Plugin: Troi File Plug-in 7 Troi File Plug-in is a very powerful tool for getting access to information outside the FileMaker Pro database. Any files stored on the rest of the computer can be accessed through the functions of the plug-in. Troi File Plug-in 7.4.9.1 beta […]
PART 2 OF THE PERFORM SCRIPT ON SERVER series from Vince Mennano. You’ll want to study this one as closely as Part One: Are you ready to experience a whole new level of User Interaction? Now, go ahead and drag the “BabyNamesInArizona.xlsx” file into the “Drag file to be imported here” area. Then all you need […]
THE NEW “LIST OF” SUMMARY OPTION is getting lots of deserved attention: I’ve found the performance to be excellent and it can now replace the use of Custom Functions, looping scripts etc that were previously used to generate a list of IDs for a found set of records. We’ve also another great use for it […]
MODULAR CODE is portable code: Chunks of code that can be easily easily moved from one solution to another with minimal modification. Each chunk of code addresses a specific, discrete need–account management, error handling, etc. FileMaker’s structure is so dependent on context that modular code is difficult to write. Darren Burgess of Mighty Data discusses […]
- FileMakerProGurus: […] into a usable timestamp. Watch this if you want to improve those skills. Part 1 can be found here. FileMaker…