A Simple Column Sort Trick in FileMaker A simple and sweet column sort trick from Excelisys’ RJ Carroll: We eXplore a simple approach to leverage the power of “Sort Records by Field” in FileMaker Pro that allows for powerful one-click simple column sort. This trick uses a script trigger instead of a standard script, and also […]
Yesterday’s post on RemoteScripter brought a comment from Jan Stieperaere of ClickWorks about his very clever way of running a script on a remote FileMaker Client. We covered this earlier this year, and now Richard Carlton has updated the video to include FileMaker 14. The download file at ClickWorks shows a basic messaging system as well as another […]
Mislav Kov, of Soliant Computing, put together a very detailed post on FileMaker 14 Script Triggers, and included a bonus: a journey back to the first script triggers in FileMaker 7: FileMaker 7 and earlier Total number of triggers: 2 (OnFileOpen and OnFileClose) These were renamed to OnFirstWindowOpen and OnFirstWindowClose in FileMaker 12 Just two script […]
It’s sometimes amazing how time wasting the smallest things can be. Take the subject of the blog post by David Thorpe of Excelisys. The object is to, in one script, keep a popover from dismissing if clicked anyway other than with a specific menu item: You tap the bookmarks icon, it pops down a popover with […]
TODD WEIL’S script trigger solution offers a field by field method of locking down data. This is handy at times, but suffers from some drawbacks in operation: It take two script triggers attached to the field: onObject Enter and onObjectExit. You may need one of those to test for other purposes, which would lead to […]
I DON’T NORMALLY post videos that do not have audio (even some music helps). This time is an exception. I don’t know how to pronounce the authors name (here it is, help is appreciated: 野田修) or anything about him. Other than what he shows in this video is pretty cool. And that he found a way to […]
A VERY CLEVER WAY to trigger a script on another #filemaker client by #clickworks. The core secret is to use the #onrecordload script trigger to run when a user deletes a record on the remote client. Since it is a script being triggered, almost anything you can script can be triggered on the remote host. […]
THERE WERE SO MANY NEW FEATURES added in FileMaker V13, it’s sometimes hard to keep track. The latest example of this is the OnGestureTap script trigger and a companion function, Get(TriggerGestureInfo), which allow you to capture gestures in FileMaker Go. James Scarpetta of the Scarpetta Group just posted an article showing how to capture how, when […]
AS EVERY EXPERIENCED FILEMAKER DEVELOPER KNOWS (heck, an experienced developer in any language, for that matter), there’s more that one way to do a given task. Usually there are several, each having it’s own pro’s and cons. Alexis Allen’s article on controlling the tab action after choosing a value from a drop down is a […]
IF YOU ARE PREPPING for the FileMaker Certification test, you’ll need to know Script Triggers inside and out. Of course, to fully realize their utility, you need to study them closely, anyway. Consider the OnObjectExit script trigger: Triggers a script to run before an active object is exited as a result of the following: a […]
GETTING YOUR HEAD around the whole script trigger concept is quite challenging. Mislav Kos developed a visual that ties it all together: There are quite a few nuances in how FileMaker script triggers function. Two of the more straightforward ones are the sequence that script triggers evaluate in (e.g. OnObjectKeystroke fires before OnLayoutKeystroke) and the […]
Using Dynamic Script Triggers in FileMaker Go December 11th, 2013 By Rob Poelking What? It was a couple years ago that I was introduced to dynamic script triggering in a video by Matt Petrowski. The basic premise is that you maintain a table with the names of scripts and a label that is presented in […]