LOCKING A RECORD – OR FIELDS ON A RECORD – is something you will run across in your development career. Douglas Alder offers a solid method for each in this blog post: 1) Lock the entire record from deletion and editing by employing a customized privilege set and a field for tagging the records to […]
THERE IS CONFUSION about FileMaker’s new concurrent connections policy and when it applies: The FileMaker platform allows you and others to access custom business solutions in different ways – be it from a desktop or laptop computer, from an iPhone or iPad, or using a web browser. No matter where you are, you can always […]
A THOUGHT PROVOKING POST by Todd Geist about what FileMaker and the FileMaker community need to do to make FileMaker a force in the database market: Platforms that allow for modular design and sharing do better than ones that don’t. PlatForms, like WordPress, that make modular design and sharing a core feature, can sometimes change […]
A LOOK at ajaz loading gifs from the FileMaker Web guru, Joel Shapiro. Get ready for some animated gifs…
WAY MORE than you think. Just comparing functionality -cd player, phone, camera, answering machine, video camera, etc. – the cost to do the same thing is over $3000. Matching just the memory, processor, and broadband capabilities brings the total to over 3.5 million! And don’t forget to appreciate the fact that all of this power […]
RICHARD BRANSON – possible the world’s best entrepreneur – on Entrepreneurism: From my perspective, an entrepreneur isn’t just someone who launches a business; the desire to innovate then prompts that person to keep on striving to make positive changes. Companies need to be flexible: This starts with the people at the top, who must have […]
FASCINATING glimpse back to the beginning of Filemaker: The history of Filemaker starts back in the early 1980s with four people who originally worked at Wang Laboratories, headquartered in Lowell Massachusetts: Spec Bowers, Alan Albert, Dan Chadwick, Jega Arulpragasam. Wang Labs had a political culture back then, if you were on the inside track (essentially, […]
BE CAREFUL trapping for modifier keys – sometimes it can backfire! There are times when you want to allow some advanced functionality when a combination of modifier keys (shift, alt, ctrl, etc.) are held down. I’ve seen some developers go nuts with this – using one button with 5 or 6 functions based on what […]
1,000, ooo FILEMAKER GO Apps downloaded for iPad and iPhone: SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 5, 2014 – FileMaker, Inc., today announced that its FileMaker Go for iPad and iPhone apps have surpassed 1,000,000 downloads from the iTunes App Store. The milestone confirms the continued popularity of the FileMaker Platform for creating custom business solutions that run […]
SHOW AN OBJECT based upon the active field. Nice little function.
GOOD ADVICE from Entrepreneur.com: What does “click-worthy” mean? Besides the general “worthy of clicking and viewing/reading,” it means that users are able to find the information you want them to find and take the actions you want them to take.
DID YOU EVER WISH you could make a multi-pin map in FileMaker? Douglas Alder did, and he made it happen: My goal was to make a simple modular and portable script that developers (myself included) could just paste into their solution and modify a few steps and have it up and running quickly. This demo […]
COOL – FILEMAKER PRO talking to Google Earth: One of our graduate students here at UC is investigating the movement of artifacts from the origin to archaeological find spot. She had been gathering her data in a FileMaker Pro database and wanted to be able to visualize the quantity of material either sourced or found in […]
Bar Charts in Google Earth from FileMaker - EASY APPS!: [...] Original article here. [...]
ANOTHER GREAT AUDIO from FileMaker Success Tips. 282_FM_Success_Tips Big Imports, Flashterm, Managing new field names Filemaker Success Tips : 282_FM_Success_Tips
Robert Monasky: can't read the whole article. Tried clicking on "Read the whole thing." which isn't a link. How do I get…
Don Clark: I added a link to that phrase. Try it now.