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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.
TODD GEIST posted a solution at Modular FileMaker that builds FileMaker URL’s on the fly – regular web URL’s and FMP URL’s both: url ( “http://www.geistinteractive.com” ) & urlBasicAuth ( “admin” ; “password” ) & urlPath ( “contacts” ) & urlPath ( “23345” ) & urlParam ( “max” ; “100” ) & urlParam ( “skip” ; […]
MINDFIRE SOLUTIONS has started a new series of FileMaker 13 videos. The first is on popovers: This video is about the basics of a popover. It mentions what a popover is and how a simple popover button can be created along with the specified settings as well as the way to design it. The Agenda of […]
THE THIRD PART of Anvil Blog’s series on WebDirect dives deep into the heart of FileMaker’s own files to allow you to change the titles in WebDirect. They warn you in the article that this is not supported by FileMaker, and that future versions of FileMaker could break your hard work. This is not for […]
WEBDIRECT NEEDS the ability to print great output. I’ve seen a lot posts on Linkedin and other forums where people are asking for printing solutions for WebDirect. Mike Beargie and AnvilWorks taken a large step towards solving this problem, and one that will help move WebDirect forward: One of the largest hurdles to jump over in WebDirect’s […]
IF YOU’VE NEVER used BaseElements free plugin, you’re not doing yourself any favors. It a great plugin that just been enhanced by DB Services with new encryption functionality: Just as we’ve needed HTTP POST many times over the years, we’ve also needed field-level encryption. So, as history tends to do, we repeated ourselves by sponsoring the […]
ANVIL DATAWORKS is running a four day series on WebDirect timed to coincide with the four day of Devcon. The first in the series covers some of the decisions you’ll face just getting your clients onto Webdirect: Ease of access is one of the top requirements to make a database “usable” to people. In FileMaker […]
LEARN MORE ABOUT JOE SCARPETTA of the Scarpetta Group–How he ended up becoming a FileMaker developer, how that lead to more and better things, and how the Scarpetta Group is now a Platinum member of the FileMaker Business Alliance. Just a year ago, the Scarpetta Group was a couple of full time developers with several sub […]
JAMES CURRIE of Weetbicks shows off a neat little trick to add rows to a FileMaker portal using the FileMaker 13 field to conditionally hide fields. Hiding the contents of the last row We can now specify a simple calculation to hide the contents of the last row. We select all the objects that we […]
AARON GIARD of Scarpetta Group posted part 2 of his series on extending FileMaker’s capabilities with jQuery: For those of you who who have not read it, click to read part 1 of this series to get a preface on some of the techniques I am using to make this happen. I want to create a slider […]
CO-AUTHORED BY SUSAN PROSSER AND STUART GRIPMAN, FileMaker Pro 13, the Missing Manual is now shipping. It’s available from Amazon via Kindle and through O’Reilly Media. FileMaker 13: The Missing Manual is Here!
DO YOU HAVE A VOIP TELEPHONE SYSTEM? And a FileMaker client database? Have you ever wondered if you could use the former to make the latter call up a client record automatically? Wonder no more! Douglas Alder of Homebase and Steve Barer of Oak Bay Softrends describe how it came to be: A few weeks back, we had […]
Rick Guzman: Dear Developers, I've been trying to see if there's any easy way to embed a dialer like x-lite, Zoiper, etc.…
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE NEW FILEMAKER 13 Function: Get (ModifiedFields). It’s a very simple process to write a script to call the function: SetField(Log; Get(ModifiedFields)) Set the script to run when the record is committed, and the Log field now contains the contents of any fields that were change. There’s a lot more–listen to it all. Filemaker Success […]
DANIEL WOOD OF WEETBICKS has extended the work he did with sliding drawers to popovers: In our last article, we introduced a generic technique that could be used to replicate a mouse-over effect. This used a combination of a custom function, script, plugin and tooltips to allow the user to expand and collapse a sliding […]
TIRED OF FIGHTING with container fields? FileMaker container fields are great, but the limitations are sometimes frustrating, especially when it comes to displaying their contents in a web viewer. Mike Duncan of Soliant Consulting breaks it down for you: FileMaker 13 introduces a couple new functions, Base64Decode and Base64Encode. Base64 is a commonly used method […]
Free URL Builder at Modular FileMaker | Filemak...: […] TODD GEIST posted a solution at Modular FileMaker that builds FileMaker URL’s on the fly – regular web URL’s…