Kevin Frank offers alternative to the Fast Summaries technique he has developed over the years. And, of course, there is a downloadable file at the link. Has anyone out there tried Google Web Designer? What did you think? I’m always looking for better ways to generate HTML and CSS3 files. It doesn’t make sense, but […]
Thu, 7 May 2015 344_FM_Success_Tips Vexed with Reporting, FM Starting Point Direct download: 344_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 5:30 PM Source: Filemaker Success Tips 344
Kevin Frank posted a series on different ways to export user friendly reports to Excel back in 2011. The information is still useful today: To recap, clients have requested three things: User-friendly column headings Calculated fields or the virtual equivalent (I call these pseudo-fields) An interface to make it easy Well, with regard to number 1, […]
THIS IS THE LAST of an excellent series of videos by FileMaker based on the FileMaker Training Series. This video webinar covers the basics of FileMaker calculations, scripting, and reporting. For example, learn how to calculate the number of days between two days, how to integrate text with fields to build new fields like a […]
GREG LANE OF SKELETON KEY explores using ExecuteSQL to produce more effective charts–which is what our clients want, isn’t it? This is part one of three: Sometimes as software developers we get caught up in the details of collecting, storing, and displaying data. To our clients, this is rarely the ultimate goal. Our clients want […]
ONCE YOU GET YOUR MIND AROUND THE CONCEPT that records in a portal are just related records in another table, report generation becomes so much easier: It might help you to understand the options you have in printing your portals, if you take a moment to think about what portal data really is … related records […]
DWAYNE WRIGHT is exploring – and explaining – FileMaker report variations: HARD CODED SEARCHES VS USER SPECIFIC EMAILING REPORTS USER SPECIFIED REPORT CONTENT REPORTS THAT NEED TO BE EXPORTED REPORTS THAT ARE BEST USED IN AN INDEPENDENT ENGINE Read the whole thing: Dwayne Wright PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM – FileMaker Thoughts – Variations In FileMaker Report Types. […]
RE-USING FILEMAKER CODE and layouts is not always easy. Save some steps using Dwayne Wright’s method when possible. To create this report, I went to an existing client subsummary report and duplicated it. I didn’t need the subsummary layout parts, so I deleted all but one of them and converted the other to a body […]
THINK IT THOUGH FIRST. Then act. Databases are built to store data that may be useful to somebody who owns or uses that data. Data becomes information when it is presented in a format that is useful to a viewer. There are many ways to convert data into information, and the most common one is […]
Three techniques exploring summary reporting… Summary Reporting Tricks Posted on September 12, 2013 by Kevin Frank Print PDF One of the best ways to learn about a particular FileMaker feature or behavior is to build a demo. You might build one in response to a client request, or to try to answer a question somone […]
FileMaker – Exporting Grouped Records – YouTube.
EfficientBizz: There's a typo for Google WebDesigner link. Should be: https://www.google.com/webdesigner/
Don Clark: Thanks, fixed now!