A free video and download from Matt Petrowski on loading content from a variety of sources, including the web: FileMaker Pro is such a wonderful environment for being able to rapidly create software which is extremely powerful and functional. The fact that the database is just there, built-in and available saves an enormous amount of […]
Last weeks podcast from Lee Strong and Dr. Andy Cohen (as of the publishing date of this post, the podcast link description at their website showed episode 322, not 332. However, the actual link points to episode 332) Thu, 12 February 2015 332_FM_Success_Tips Optimizing For Performance, SyncAndAsync, Round Trip Direct download: 332_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 6:30 […]
Without sales, the best developers in the world sit idle, twiddling their thumbs. That is the harsh reality, so small development businesses (read: the owner), generally have to acquire sales and marketing skills in order to maintain and then grow their businesses. In his interview with FileMakerProGurus, David Knight, of Angel City Data, made a similar […]
A quick tip for beginning FileMaker developers from Richard Carlton: Updating contacts in a table by importing an Excel or CSV file. The one piece necessary for this to work is having a field in FileMaker that matches a field in the import sheet. Usually you can do this with an email address (as he does […]
I traveled to L.A. recently for business and, not wanting to waste an opportunity to get to know more people in the FileMaker community, scheduled a video interview with David Knight of Angel City Data. Listen in to learn more about David, including: How he got his start with FileMaker How he landed major recording studios as clients How […]
UKFileMaker’s third video in a series of six on Design. This FileMaker design webinar covers user-center design methodology, and also includes some design tips: Use other design tools – like paper and pencil Do some “Whiteboarding” with users Borrow design patterns from other places Remember, more isn’t necessarily better You’ll also learn which types of files you […]
I’ve registered for FileMaker Devcon 2015 and I am booked at the Cosmo! I am looking forward to learning a lot and meeting some of the people I’ve had the pleasure of meeting though this blog. Hope to see you there! The 2015 FileMaker DevCon will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 20 – […]
Richard Carlton of RC Consulting shares a great way to initiate phone calls from FileMaker over VOIP. The system is limited to making calls and not receiving call outcomes (busy, voicemail, etc.), but is still a very useful method for tying a FileMaker system that tracks calls and outcomes into an auto dial system. Published […]
A client recently purchase a new Mac Mini (with Yosemite) to be a dedicates server for FileMaker Server 13. After installing FileMaker Server 13 on the machine, however, none of the databases, including the FileMaker Sample file, would open. After quite a bit of research, we finally found the answer. It has to do […]
Should you need to display an unlimited number of images/documents/videos from a single record in a FileMaker Solution, Matt Petrowsky has the solution you seek. And Richard Carlton has a video showing the capabilities of that solution. If you want the actual solution with the explanation video by Matt, however, you’ll need to sign […]
Learn about Jesse Barnum–how he got started, his favorite quotes, what he sees in the future for FileMaker, and much, much more. His company, 360Works, makes and sells FileMaker plugins and products that extend FileMaker in a variety of ways: MirrorSync Scriptmaster Scribe Email Plugin Docubin RemoteScripter and much more Published on Jan 20, […]
I like these proof of concept type videos showing how easy it is it build the outline of a database solution so quickly. Keep in mind while watching, however, that a complete system that integrates with other processes, that is secure and robust, with error checking, data entry protection, and data protection (keeping historical data […]
Get over to this video and learn some great FileMaker Offscreen Tips & Tricks. And subscribe to Matt’s site to get the keys to lots of other great code and tips. Offscreen Tips & Tricks – ISO FileMaker Magazine.
Keena Tomko: Oh, my gosh -- I love these tips! I've really struggled with the enter-layout and exit-layout scripts triggering at inconvenient…
Don Clark: You are welcome, Keena. Thanks for your feedback!
I posted on ClickWork’s trick to trigger a script on a remote client back in August, and was very impressed with the concept. Richard Carlton likes it so much he made a video demonstrating some of the possibilities: Published on Jan 7, 2015 FileMaker does not natively contain this ability on its own… and […]
Jan Stieperaere: Hi Don, Thx for the great review! Grts, Jan Stieperaere Clickworks Belgium
Don Clark: You bet, Jan!
Karen Weaver: ??? Did you not get my comment on the last post explaining this and providing the link to the solution?
Don Clark: Nope - WordPress stopped sending me emails on comments and I didn't check back. Thanks for the help, though! Now…