In the previous article, we chatted about speeding up record creation and modification within our FileMaker applications. As we said, there’s no one size fits all way to make an exotic supercar out of a minivan. However, there are ways to make that minivan corner smoothly and stop quickly and maybe even take off from the […]
FileMaker Developer Interviews – Todd Geist Sit down and get ready to learn about one of the FileMaker Community’s more resourceful members, Todd Geist of Geist Interactive. Geist is the definition of busy, with a new product release–FM Perceptions–and two presentations at DevCon2016. Todd is very personable, contributes plenty to the FileMaker community, and started, […]
FileMaker DevCon 2016 Un-Conference Session Claus Lavendt is hosting an un-conference session on his new FileMaker Server product, FMS Whistleblower: FMS WhistleBlower – The missing tool for FileMaker Server Wednesday 3:45 at the un-conference session room. In this session, Claus Lavendt will present a new freeware tool, created by Peter Wagemans and Claus Lavendt. It is designed […]
Tim Ballering: Regarding the AWS backups We back up a 100 GB solution offsite nightly over a bonded T1. Impossible? We use…
A free video from Matt Petrowsky on tuning your solution for speed. Un-stored calculations are the biggest culprit, but there is plenty more, such as turning off Quick Find, unnecessary search fields, Tool tips, and Conditional Hiding: When your average knowledge worker starts developing with FileMaker Pro, there’s a lot of background and history which […]
Nick Lightbody, of Deskspace Limited, spent the last several years optimizing FileMaker server performance in a variety of circumstances: over the web, wide area networks, on smart devices, and more. Learn specific tricks for dealing with summary fields, calculated fields, indexing, sorting and much more. So settle back with a cup of coffee (or your […]
In part one of this series, Duncan Baker walked us through setting up an Amazon account and setting up the base server instance: In our previous blog post, we did all that was necessary on the AWS side to set up groups, users and security prior to being able to launch our server Instance using […]
Here’s what you’ll learn in this interview with Carl Horton of FileMaker Hosting Pros: FMPHost deals almost exclusively with FileMaker Servers FMPHost does not do FileMaker development; Instead, they direct business to developers who use their services Which cities in the world they have servers All about their single pane of glass to to manage databases […]
Building an online form can be tricky, and linking it to FileMaker even more so. Tim Dietrich attacked the problem from a different perspective: Use an online form builder, Wufoo, to take the pain out of the web building side. Next, design a FileMaker solution, fmfoo, using PHP to link to Wufoo to FileMaker: I released […]
Mike Westendorf, of DB Services, offers up a checklist for developers to use to secure their clients data. Or for any FileMaker user, for that matter: The FileMaker platform does a great job providing native security features for your organization. While no organization can have too much security, the key is finding a comfort level […]
Wim Decorte of Soliant answers a common question found on forums: “How can I exclude my externally stored container content from a backup run?”… If the container data is fairly static and you can exclude it from the backup then you could save roughly 100GB on each backup run and not fill up the hard […]
Although this article is an advertisement for Productive Computing’s server based services, it covers all of the arguments for using remote servers for a FileMaker server hosting solution: Server Hardware Installation and configuration Expertise Server Maintenance Security Bandwidth Uptime Backups Licensing Server Hardware Server hardware is a big ingredient in the performance and wellbeing of […]
Today’s excerpt takes us back to the the Command Line Interface (CLI) and to shell commands. Simon at Beezwax gives us three shell commands that allow us to grab and format data from the FileMaker Server access log. The reports show user and database information: Various times I’ve needed to do some quick summaries […]
If you are planning to transition from FileMaker Server Advanced to the FileMaker Server 13, there is some (rather confusing) news. The long and the short of it is, if you have FileMaker Server Transition, you can save money by renewing before 12/3/14 and locking in savings of 50%: FileMaker has announced that they will be […]
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KEVIN HAMMOND OF DBSERVICES found a way to print pdf’s from FileMaker Server. Their unique solution is falls on the more difficult side to set un and configure, but once done opens the door to automated reports from the server: Have you ever wanted to email customers their invoices automatically? Have you ever wanted to generate […]
How to Create a PDF from FileMaker Server | DB ...: […] KEVIN HAMMOND OF DBSERVICES found a way to print pdf’s from FileMaker Server. Their unique solution is falls on…
Vincent: Well, that may work for a moderate amount of data, but in practice, with lots of records this slow down…