DOUGLAS ALDER addresses the UTF-8/16 export problem brought about by a decision made long ago by FileMaker programmers: In my last post about exporting Calendar files, I glossed over the UTF-8/16 issue that is still present in FileMaker Pro. The problem is that if a script employs “Export Field Contents”, which my last demo did, there is […]
GOOD THINGS HAPPEN when a developer is able to grab ideas and techniques from around the web and put them together to make a better solution. When that developer is able to make it modular, the whole developer community benefits. Douglas Alder of Homebase Software did just that recently by making a stand alone export solution […]
NICE WORK, DOUGLAS. And thanks to his son, Cory, for his assistance. They figured out a way to generate QR codes without an internet connection. A while back, I wrote a blog and demo using FileMaker Pro to generate QR Codes. The technique employed Google’s API to generate a QR Code and the Insert from URL command in […]
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 […]
EfficientBizz: I kind of underestimated the value of this function when I implemented part of the FileMaker Hacks resources into my…