FileMaker Document Management and UX
FileMaker Document Management You may have missed this great post by Nicolas Hunter on FileMaker Document Management on LinkedIn recently. Are you on LinkedIn? If not, get busy and make an account – you are missing out on great business resource for learning and connecting with other business professionals. Back to FileMaker Document Management: Richard Carlton […]
Units of Measure – FileMaker Inventory Management
Units of Measure Can you imagine filling out a sales order for 7 butters? 7 butters doesn’t make any sense. It would need to be 7 ounces of butter or 7 packs of butter or 7 cases of butter. Ounces, packs, and cases are all examples of units of measure. When working with inventory, there […]
Experience vs. Usability, Online Voting
Experience vs. Usability From Jordan Watson, a developer at We Know Data, a DevCon 2016 presentation about User Experience vs. Usability. Watson refers to Facebook as a prime example of great usability at the beginning, but don’t let that stop you from reading (Facebook is popular, in my opinion, despite it’s User Experience). This video […]
E-Payments in FileMaker Custom Apps – YouTube
E-Payments in FileMaker If you are planning to learn about E-Payments in FileMaker, watch this video of Mike Beargie about integrating E-payments in your custom app. Among other things, you’ll learn: The three keys to security Transmission Retention Tokenization Plugins (360Works Plastic in particular) API Handoffs Page Handoffs Reverse Writes Beargie also talks about CCQ-FM, a […]
Dashboard Techniques, HTML Signatures, Building from Scratch, and more
From Jason Erickson of Linear Blue (see his FileMaker Pro Gurus Interview from DevCon 2015 here), Advanced Reporting and Dashboard Techniques: This session is directed at intermediate-level FileMaker developers who have experience building standard reports. We discuss how to get the most out of displaying your data, whether in a dashboard format for desktop or […]
Paste Command, Cheap, 7 Habits
The Simple Paste Command Matt Larson of Cimbura.com digs into the simple paste command–it turns out it’s not as simple as one might think: FileMaker’s default Paste behavior is to paste formatted text in a FileMaker text field. Additional steps, either by the user or the developer, must be taken to paste unformatted text. Text stored with custom formatting may […]
Build a FileMaker Elapsed Timer
FileMaker Elapsed Timer A lawyer client recently requested a start and stop FileMaker elapsed timer for the CRM/Case manager solution I am building for him. I poked around on the web for while and didn’t find anything I liked, and decided to build one. He likes it so much I decided to share it with the […]
Simple Column Sort, One Thing at a Time, and more
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 […]
Handling Multiple Addresses, Mindfulness, Phidgets, and more.
Guy Stevens on handling multiple addresses multiple ways: Guy also has a download available here. 3 Simple Habits for Daily Mindfulness Sometimes simple things have the most impact. Hendrik EdBerg of the PositivityBlog shares three simple ideas about daily mindfulness: Slow Down Tell yourself: Now I am… Disrupt your thoughts + quickly reconnect with the […]
FM Server, AWS, The Gig Economy, Standards
Mike Duncan talks about why you should use AWS with a dedicated FileMaker 15 server: There are also very good reasons you would want a dedicated FileMaker Server to leverage the FileMaker platform to get the most out of it. Server Scheduled scripts, perform script on server functionality, Web Direct and connection access licensing all have […]
Free FileMaker Downloads Day
Free FileMaker Downloads Day! The Free FileMaker Example list has been around for over a year now, and has some interesting statistics: Over 20,000 views! 247 (and counting) free downloadable files Free downloadable FileMaker example files from all over the world An example file for almost every kind of problem or solution you can think of […]
RESTfm, Button Bar as Progress Bar
Why Use RESTfm? I’ve been looking for a good blog post showing a real life example of using RESTfm from Goya for a while, if only because I haven’t had the need to use it, and I wanted to know more about it. Damien Kelly of Blackframe wrote such a post–and here is why RESTFM was the […]
fmRecentRecords, FileMaker Website, Acrobat Integration, and more
I don’t know how I missed this last November, but I’m glad Didier Daglinckx featured it on his Scoop.it page. It’s called fmRecentRecords, and it’s a free download from Matt Navarre’s recently renamed company, App.Works. David J. Weiner wrote the post (see also his posts on using the Button Bar for way more that just buttons), and explains what […]
FileMaker and iBeacons
All about iBeacons: A lot has been written about iBeacons since FileMaker 15’s release, with examples and files and different ideas about how to use them. So much so, that it’s hard to find a lot of good information. So here’s my list of resources available out there now. Start with this video about iBeacons from Pulsate HQ. […]