Merge Letter Templates If you have ever tried to add a merge field or merger variable inside of a text field, you know it’s not easy to do. Programmers have done so, but giving clients the ability to craft their own custom letter templates with variables didn’t exist. Until now. Thanks to Matthew Leering (and […]
Contact Picker – Modular FileMaker I am currently developing a FileMaker solution that will be cloud based and will have hundreds of thousands of contact records. There is a need for isolating a specific contact record quickly and then associating that record to the current record. Drop down and popup menus don’t work well in this […]
Mislav Kos of Soliant Consulting wrote a very handy, modular script that tells you which layouts contain a particular field: I wrote a blog post last month showing a way to quickly find where unstored calcs and summary fields are being used in a solution. This post is a sort of follow up, in that […]
Macah Encarnacao of Soliant Computing wrote a great little demo file for building folders on either a Mac or PC: It is very common to generate reoccurring reports in FileMaker that get saved to the user’s computer. Perhaps you would like to organize these reports by day or type. OS level folders and subfolders are a […]
Mislav Kov has an informative post on generating sample data for different tables using custom functions, and he went the extra mile with a demo file and a video to help you out. Kov started with a Modular FileMaker solution and made it better: There’s also a custom function in there that selects a random value from a […]
Todd Giest has updated his MasterDetail post at Modular FileMaker up to 2.0. Master Detail allows you to display a list of records in a portal on a layout, and when you select a a record in the portal, shows the details for that record without changing layouts. This new version shows the the records […]
Kevin Frank has a guest blogger at FileMakerHacks, Guiseppe Pupita, an Italian FileMaker developer who has developed a modular way to process outgoing and incoming xml packets. He calls his technique wrap and unwrap: I developed a solution to send electronic invoices to the State Administration (for those who are maniac enough and fluent in […]
TODD GEIST OF GEIST INTERACTIVE (and ModularFileMaker.org) takes modular code to another level: Virtual Script Triggers: Virtual FileMaker Script Triggers fire when a script reaches a point that you define. This lets you create scripts and features that are more portable and extendable. It fits in really well with the ModularFileMaker.org philosophy. The steps to running a virtual script trigger are: […]
FMSIMPLICITY just added a new MailChimp module to Modular FileMaker that looks pretty interesting. If you have a need to integrate FileMaker with MailChimp, this module will get you started: More than 6 million people use MailChimp to create, send, and track email newsletters. You can now integrate their amazing product directly into FileMaker… There are currently two dependencies: […]
MORE GOOD THINGS from Modular Filemaker, this time an updated QuickFind function from Kursiv Software. As every FileMaker Developer knows, FileMaker has a native QuickFind feature. So, why not use the built in QuickFind? One scenario–when the solution requires hiding the status area. Another is for FileMaker Go applications. Having QuickFind on the screen saves […]
FORWARD AND BACK BUTTONS using the latest FileMaker capabilities. And best of all, it’s modular! Give Paul Jansen’s modular solution a test run–you’ll love it. BrowserNav adds web browser like layout navigation history and requires a single script, one custom function (Optional) and back and forward buttons. Once the script and custom function have been added to […]
MODULAR CODE is portable code: Chunks of code that can be easily easily moved from one solution to another with minimal modification. Each chunk of code addresses a specific, discrete need–account management, error handling, etc. FileMaker’s structure is so dependent on context that modular code is difficult to write. Darren Burgess of Mighty Data discusses […]
MODULAR FILEMAKER bullet fields for password entry. Available for download from Kursiv software (registration required). All told there are three modules free to download: BulletField Dynamic Navigation 2 User Management 3 All look interesting. Bullet Field – Modular FileMaker.
THIS IS AN INTERESTING METHOD for managing users and logins from Karsten on Modular FileMaker. UserManagement 3 is a solution to manage users and login procedures. Users are listed in a Filemaker table. Filemaker accounts are functional and per user group. User of the same group share the same settings. In the user table every […]