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
Here’s an interesting twist on the usual from FileMakerHacks. As most developers soon figure out, the best way to display/print reports in FileMaker is to start with the proper context. For example, to print an invoice, the proper context is the table where the Line Item info is stored, not the table containing the Customer […]
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 […]
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 […]
A basic cross tab report method by Dwayne Wright. GeneralCrossTab – YouTube.
FileMaker – Exporting Grouped Records – YouTube.
FileMaker Pro 12 Subsummary Reports Part 2 – YouTube.
Subsummary Reports & Summary Fields – YouTube.