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Any article, video or blog post concerning FileMaker 13 is available for viewing on this page. Check back often as it will be updated often.
Any article, video or blog post concerning FileMaker 13 is available for viewing on this page. Check back often as it will be updated often.
Getting rid of paper-based processes should be high on the list of businesses as technology improves. Save money and time, improve efficiencies, reduce storage costs, increase customer satisfaction, improve data collection accuracy and time–the list goes on and on: Published on Oct 27, 2014 More businesses today are seeking alternatives to legacy paper-based processes. Companies of […]
This post is a great extension of Kevin Frank’s first post on anti-deduping–keeping duplicates and omitting unique entries from within an existing found set. Now, keeping duplicates is an unusual request, but the techniques Frank develops in these two posts are useful to hone your coding skills and improve your approach to solving a problem: In part one, we explored various “anti-deduping” […]
UKFileMaker’s fifth in the series of six webinars on the subject of learning FileMaker. This video is devoted to design building a better user interface on iOS devices. Published on Dec 5, 2014 Join us for the fifth in a series of six webinars designed to complement your learning via FTS:Basics, the official self-paced […]
Mislav Kov of Soliant shows how to auto upload a pdf to a container field on an iOS device, with the bonus of showing how deleting the pdf file after upload, something that FileMaker Go does not directly support: When the PDF is created, it needs to be temporarily stored on the file system, so […]
Yet another nice feature of Base64Encode: Rename files embedded in a FileMaker container field with a script step. Without exporting and importing: This technique makes use of FM13’s new Base64Encode() & Base64Decode() functions. When decoding a base64 string, filemaker gives you an optional parameter to specify a filename. This is the key to rename your […]
GetContainerAttribute: This function has 35 different arguments that you can send to it to get specific information about the item in a container field. FullCity Consulting gives us the use of the few of the more fun ones, and the full list is below: New in FileMaker 13, and previously fawned over in this very blog, is the GetContainerAttribute function. […]
The paperless office promise has been around for a long time, yet computers have always spawned more, not less, paper. This variant–membership applications–is one area where paper use can be decreased, and major time savings realized, as well. Toss in the ease of use, fewer errors in form submission due to enforcement of business rules […]
Kevin Frank has a guest blogger at FileMakerHacks, Guiseppe Pupita, an Italian FileMaker developer who has developed a modular way to process outgoing and incoming xml packets. He calls his technique wrap and unwrap: I developed a solution to send electronic invoices to the State Administration (for those who are maniac enough and fluent in […]
A very slick method to integrate a progress bar into you FileMaker Pro 13 solutions. This method uses the new FileMaker commend, base64Encode, a custom function, and three new fields to add to your solution. Very easy to integrate, and very nice output for your clients! While developing videos for their FileMaker Pro video course (www.learningfilemaker.com) […]
Very nice technique from Accelerate Computer Training, showing how to make tab labels dynamic, a new Feature in FileMaker 13. Published on Sep 29, 2014 Learn how to use dynamic data and calculations to set tab control labels using this new feature in FileMaker Pro 13. Dynamic Tab Labels in FileMaker Pro 13 – YouTube. […]
Rosemary Tietge, presenter in this video, will be presenting at the New Mexico FM Pug User Group meeting in December. She was great last spring and we look forward to her presentation next month. We will be doing a virtual meeting, so join us next month to hear her speak. Published on Nov 3, 2014 […]
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 […]
Four real life examples of companies changing over from paper to paperless and how they did it. There is a process involved, including analyzing, planning, building, and implementation. Watch the video for more details: Published on Oct 27, 2014 More businesses today are seeking alternatives to legacy paper-based processes. Companies of all sizes are replacing […]
Optimizing your database to run fast from the server is critical, and not necessarily an easy thing to do. The one hour seminars that FileMaker has been making for a while are very helpful, and FileMaker makes them available on demand afterwards. FileMaker is offering two sessions Tuesday, October 28th. Follow the link below to […]