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, […]
From Jason Erickson of Linear Blue (see his FileMaker Pro Gurus Interview from DevCon 2015 here), Advanced Reporting and Dashboard Techniques: This session is directed at intermediate-level FileMaker developers who have experience building standard reports. We discuss how to get the most out of displaying your data, whether in a dashboard format for desktop or […]
Richard Carlton features Nick Lightbody from Deskspace Limited, talking about improving performance tuning with FileMaker 15. If you are administering a server and seeing slowdowns, this is a must watch video: Have you ever heard of DeskspaceCMS? It’s a FileMaker based alternative (from Nick Lightbody and Deskspace) to WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and other types of […]
Shawn Krueger at Cimbura.com answers the question many of our clients have: Should I upgrade to FileMaker 15 Now? Michael Rocharde does the thinking for you on taking reservations: More Date Magic In this one, we’re going to take it a stage further and work with a date range. For our example, we are using a property […]
The GetAsCSS function has been around since FileMaker Version 7, and I have to admit to never having used it before a few days ago. I recently integrated CloudMail (from 360Works) into a FileMaker project, and for version 1 my client was planning text only emails. Jesse Barnum noted in his instructional video that basic […]
These tools will help you with themes, Custom Web Publishing, and displaying data in web viewers, web pages, etc. As FileMaker integrates more with other platforms, HTML5 and CSS3 become more important in your work: HTML5 is one of the most popular language amongst developers and designers as it provides number of functionality and assists developers […]
Get a finer level of control over your FileMaker solutions by using custom CSS: Since the inception of the internet, CSS and HTML have been tied together in a conjugal bond. While HTML is possibly an easy markup language to learn, CSS can be quite a challenge. Nevertheless, achieving the gorgeous layout that boasts a clean […]
Don’t need to know CSS? Think again. With more demand for interoperability with web based resources, familiarity with html and CSS is growing in importance. And let’s not forget that Filemaker themes are CSS based. While this is aimed more at helping web designers, these tools could be very helpful for FileMaker developers, too: We […]
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Do you have clients that need to edit HTML within FileMaker, and need to see the results instantly? Tim Dietrich combined jQuery and jQuery TE technologies with FileMaker to get you started. And, as usual, his solution is open source: FMEasyHTML is an open source HTML / text editor for use in FileMaker databases. With FMEasyHTML, you can provide […]
Francisco Renta-Quinones: How can I get your FMEasyHTML and its documentation ? I am also interested in you FileMaker and Zip Code…
Don Clark: Thanks, Francisco! Sorry for the late response, WordPress stopped notifying me... Here's where you can the info (Tim Dietrich wrote…
MATT LARSEN, a Senior Systems Engineer at Cimbura.com, posted on a very cool idea–using a FileMaker solutions to build a web based signature block of HTML that you can host on a web server, then link that code in you outgoing emails. The result? High quality signature blocks in all of your emails to all […]
NOT QUITE AS GOOD AS A DECODER RING, but still a handy little utility file. Stuart Gripman of FullCity Consulting built a little database that decodes over 3000 escape codes into regular english: Sometimes cutting and pasting content and code from websites can be fraught with frustration. Some of the biggest headache makers are escape codes- representations of […]
MATT PETROWSKI brings cool javascript driven charts into FileMaker, starting with the source code from the D3 library. Similar to what others in the FileMaker world have done with CSS, HTML, and Javascript, Matt shows how easy it is to find and modify existing, free code into FileMaker web viewers, enriching your end users experience. Brought […]
TODD GEIST released new modular code that will apply a watermark to images. Watermark takes advantage of HTML5 to call the Canvas element and place a custom watermark on your image. You can control, the opacity, position and offset from within FileMaker as well. You don’t need to know anything about HTML5 or JavaScript to […]
NOT SURE HOW I MISSED THIS last summer, but Chris Ippolite modified Douglas Alders cluster map, which uses JavaScript, HTML5, and the google API to make map of clients. FileMaker can be extended in so many ways to meet a client’s needs. Published on Jun 1, 2013 In this demo we show a modified version of […]
Nick Lightbody: Hi Don, Thanks for picking up on deskspaceCMS. Here are some examples of sites created with deskspaceCMS: http://operabrava.com http://drgdkewley.com.au http://ppforma.pl…
Don Clark: Hi Nick, Thanks for the update! Let's plan a meeting for later this week or next. I'll email you direct.…
Tom Cassidy: Hi there Don - I use DCMS for my main site: http://www.reason-ability.com/ and it is lightning fast. Well, check it…
Don Clark: Hi Tom, I found your site last week on the DesktopCMS link page, and spent quite some time on it.…