Many to Many Relationships Many to Many Relationships are conceptually difficult for many people to grasp. Douglas Alder tackles the subject in an effort to explain it to one of his clients: One-to-Many Relationships are the standard way of building a relational database. Sometimes a developer comes up against situations where they need something more […]
Another example of one of my favorite topics: extending FileMaker to interact with the rest of the tech world with web technologies. This time it’s Douglas Alder (again) pulling up FileMaker records based on caller ID on a Smart Phone: A while back, I did a blog entry on capturing Caller ID to look up FileMaker […]
For your technically challenged clients, Douglas Alder made a nicely illustrated, simply explained post about grabbing and sharing screen shots of FileMaker Go layouts on your iPad and iPhone: Communicating with your FileMaker application developer or other users of a database system can be greatly facilitated by the use of screenshots. Grabbing a screenshot from FileMaker Go is fairly easy to accomplish, […]
A follow up by Douglas Alder to an earlier post about capturing webcam photos to FileMaker on a Mac, this post goes through the much more complicated process of doing so from Windows: The Challenge: Capturing images from a web cam into FileMaker on Windows. I was able to achieve this previously on a Mac using AppleScript, […]
Here is a robust method of minimizing the “Extra Windows” problem that occurs all too frequently in FileMaker. Douglas Alder shares his script and concept in a downloadable file, and just made your life as a developer a bit easier: I came across a situation recently where I had to build an interface to match […]
Douglas Alder has an interesting and informative post on the effects of FileMaker ending support forFileMaker Pro 11 this coming September: I have written before about the need to stay current with FileMaker Pro, operating systems and hardware. I recently received an email from a reader who asked: Between me and a colleague we built […]
Douglas Alder shares plenty of solutions from his Homebase Software blog, and the latest is no exception. Alder took the time and effort to develop a very slick way to automate document imaging on Mac with FileMaker 13: A Macintosh computer, FileMaker Pro 13, a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300i, Automator, Applescript, a Folder Action and FileMaker’s […]
Aaron Girard of Scarpetta Group discovered the power of Applescript on OSX, and the ability of FileMaker to call an Applescript. This allows FileMaker to communicate, in varying degrees, with the Mac operating system and with other Mac apps. In this instance, he generates a notification in Yosemite: The AppleScript Below is our base […]
Douglas Alder’s getting started guide is full of great information and a must read for anyone thinking about developing with FileMaker for a living: FileMaker has a bit of a push on right now to get new developers into working with the FileMaker Pro platform. They recently launched a webpage on their main website to […]
Back in August, I reached out for help with outputting Vcards from FileMaker and Douglas Alder was one of several (thanks to you all, btw) who reached out to help. And he was right: it’s way harder than it should be to output to both Mac and Windows, and the biggest issue is with the “Export […]
EfficientBizz: I completely agree about using virtual lists for this kind of application. I made similar experiences with creating .ICS files.…
Yes, you can! And you have Douglas Alder at Homebase Software to thank for showing us how to do it. For some reason, I just assumed it would work, but it’s good to see someone do it–and write about it: Many small businesses take advantage of FileMaker Pro’s ability to host up to 5 clients […]
DO YOU HAVE A VOIP TELEPHONE SYSTEM? And a FileMaker client database? Have you ever wondered if you could use the former to make the latter call up a client record automatically? Wonder no more! Douglas Alder of Homebase and Steve Barer of Oak Bay Softrends describe how it came to be: A few weeks back, we had […]
Rick Guzman: Dear Developers, I've been trying to see if there's any easy way to embed a dialer like x-lite, Zoiper, etc.…
DOES YOUR IP ADDRESS CHANGE FREQUENTLY? If so, you may well benefit from using a service like Dyn.com. Unfortunately, my experience with Dynamic IP addressing has been negative so far. I am using it for an NAS System running a version of linux, however, so maybe that is part of the problem. Or maybe it’s just the […]
EXPLORE ENCRYPTION AT REST (EAR) with Douglas Alder: I started out exploring FileMaker Pro 13′s new encryption feature because I wondered about securing a single FileMaker database on my system. We like to think of a FileMaker file as a locked box, but I was never quite sure about how secure a FileMaker database is, […]
EfficientBizz: mmh. I deal with this problem just by setting coordinates for NewWindow with negativ values: horizontal = - 200px vertical…