Indirectly Add a Record I recently inherited a database for a local New Mexico college in Santa Fe, something I always enjoy. I like to learn, and I try to learn at least one new thing a day (that’s the absolute minimum, actually). This database taught me something I had not seen in all my […]
Developer Friendly Custom Apps Makah Encarnanao of Soliant Consulting on building developer friendly custom apps. Here are some things you will learn: How to make your comments effective, and discover non-obvious ways to make comments How to organize your custom app so things are easy to find How to label your fields, layouts, tables, scripts, […]
FileMaker Success Tips 384: Biz Politics, Comcast, Privilege Set Testing Repeat One lesson from the podcast: Carefully read what you sign! It will save time and money. Jeremy Brown dives into date range overlap: Determining if Two Date Ranges Overlap All of the description above is sort of abstract. But this technique has potential to […]
Matt & Matt catch up with some recap about the recent Pause On Error in Cleveland and the upcoming 2016 Annual Devcon for FileMaker. Throw in some tips & tricks and it’s another episode of FileMaker Talk: There’s 14 more cases against Apple now: FBI’s retreat doesn’t mean its war with Apple is over It’s […]
I just went through most of this setup of MirrorSync 2, and this video is helpful to those who haven’t set it up before. I am trying this out for client that needs two way synching with a MySQL database on a custom website. Since only parts of the database are synched, the process can […]
Free SVG Icon Pack – Check it out! FileMaker Examples has a free download of a FileMaker database with, at last count, 89 SVG icons, all fully FileMaker compatible. Which means FileMaker users are easily able to change the fill color as desired: This SVG Icon Pack is not just any collection of SVG icons. These […]
Web Clips and FileMaker Go How nice would it be to just click an icon on your iOS device’s desktop to directly open a specific FileMaker database (skipping opening FileMaker Go directly)? Andrew Duncan of Databuzz shows you, step by step, to make a web clip, the iOS equivalent of a shortcut you need to do […]
Tips ’n’ Tricks Part 1 11 great tips by Kevin Frank at FileMakerHacks. And unless my eyes deceive me, Frank is using a Macintosh now. Over the last few years I’ve been collecting miscellaneous tips and tricks with the thought of eventually aggregating them into a blog posting, and it appears that day has finally come. Ideally […]
The driving force behind Kevin Frank’s latest post is a request from a client to have two different images on a button: one regular and a different one on hover. Not hard at all, unless you need to update the button images on several different layouts on the fly. Frank, with the help of some […]
Dr, Andy Cohen and Lee Strong Thu, 22 October 2015 367_FM_Success_Tips NutShell+, To multi or not Direct download: 367_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 10:30am PDT Source: Filemaker Success Tips 367
A short video by Richard Carlton on User Interface (UI) indicators that provide feedback to users based on activities or status changes. This video is for beginning to intermediate users. UI Indicators for FileMaker
Thu, 8 October 2015 365_3DPrinting_Today Branding as WebDirect, Double click pain, Making inputs explicit Direct download: 365_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 10:30am PDT Source: Filemaker Success Tips 365 – 3DPrinting_Today
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 […]
Joshua Willing: Cool trick. It's simple to understand with the analogy of a portal. When you set a field in the last…
Don Clark: Thanks, Joshua! I like the fact that it does not commit the records. That will be very helpful with invoicing…
Joshua Willing: Here's an augmented example that uses the same idea but allows you to create and edit records through the relationship:…
Don Clark: Again, thanks!
Tom Langton: NightWing's (Ray Cologon) Duplicate Hierarchy example has a similar thing - using SetFieldByName and an Evaluate function. There is no…
Don Clark: Thanks,Tom! Check out Joshua and John's answers for the secret to the magic..
John Wenmeekers: Don, this technique goes back to FileMaker 3.0 an 4.0. It's a nuance how records are created through relationships. A…
Don Clark: Thank you, John! I have been using FM since 1989 and had never heard of this trick. I will be…
Jonathan Fletcher: This is generally the technique referred to as “magic key.”
Don Clark: Indeed.