FaceBook Live Interviews at DevCon 2017 – and this could be you! Make plans now to do a FaceBook Live interview at my hospitality suite next week at DevCon 2017. Brag on FileMaker Pro 16, your business, where you work…and share it with your clients. And get more referrals and business. Get ready by downloading […]
FileMaker Card Windows FileMaker Card Windows, a new feature is FileMaker 16, are basically revolutionizing User Interface (UI) design in FileMaker. The changes are limited only by your imagination, as you will see in videos below. Simply put, Card windows allow the developer to show any layout independent of context without closing or changing the starting layout. […]
Lots of Good FileMaker Stuff From FileMakerHacks: Some concrete uses of two new FileMaker 16 functions: SortValues and UniqueValues. And, as always, a downloadable free FileMaker example file: FM 16: SortValues and UniqueValues | FileMakerHacks Beverly Voth guest posts on improvements in FileMaker 16 on Exporting Field Contents. Bookmark this one after reading…someday you’ll need it […]
Managing FileMaker 16 Favorite Hosts and Files Matt Petrowsky’s short video on the changes in FileMaker 16 management of hosts and files sheds light on the darkness that is the new system. I’m not sure a system that is less intuitive and thus less user friendly is the way forward for FileMaker, but there it […]
Are you planning to attend FileMaker DevCon 2017? I’ll be there, and I have rented a suite again this year, where I’ll be broadcasting on FaceBook live using a Mevo camera – the Live Event Camera that lets you direct your own event easily. Stop by when you have a few minutes to share what you’ve […]
(Ed. note) If you haven’t been following Danial Shanahan’s Inventory Resources website, you are missing out on a lot of free, great methods for handling a myriad of inventory challenges. Here’s the latest from Daniel: Acceptable Levels of Goods Received What if you bought apples buy the US ton? You’d expect your supplier to deliver 1 […]
WebDirect Printing Here is a fairly short (17:32) video from Richard Carlton on WebDirect Printing, with good tips for those just wanting a quick overview and for senior FileMaker developers looking for the ‘gotchas’. WebDirect does not really Print directly from a browser. What really happens is that WebDirect generates a PDF file to the […]
API Generator Software Todd Geist released a new, free FileMaker example file that makes it as easy as is possible to work with web API’s. Geist’s new program, Generator, makes it easy to build a and test an API request, then copy the custom functions and scripts to your FileMaker solution with just a click of a […]
Free SSL Certificates for FileMaker Server Courtesy of David Nahodyl of Blue Feather Group, learn how to set up free SSL Certificates for FileMaker server (both Mac and PC) using the Let’s Encrypt free, automated and open Certificate Authority. As most FileMaker developers know, FileMaker has upped it’s concern for internet security for all FileMaker […]
Jerry Bernard: What is the procedure when FileMaker server is running on MacOS Sierra 10.12 Also, our internal server is accessed via…
Don Clark: I'd check with Let's Encrypt support for Sierra support (or David at Blue Feather). Usually you have point to a…
Scaling FileMaker This Indiana FileMaker Developers Group presentation was by Jeremiah Hammond on scaling FileMaker to handle a very large set of data in one table. Some of the lessons learned include: What common operations are disk-bound and which are processor bound Difference between 32-bit and 64-bit in regards to dealing with this amount of data […]
Inventory Magic: Product Variants If you’ve ever tracked inventory in any system, you may have run across the scenario where you’d like to add another record that is just slightly different from an existing record – also known as a product variants. Take the example of shirts. You may have a medium, white, short sleeve, […]
Python and FileMaker What is Python? From Wikipedia: An interpreted language, Python has a design philosophy which emphasizes code readability (notably using whitespace indentation to delimit code blocks rather than curly brackets or keywords), and a syntax which allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than possible in languages such as C++ […]
Upload and Download FileMaker files using WordPress Last week I discovered a need to upload and download native FileMaker files using WordPress. My goal: Find the easiest way to distribute and install a FileMaker Go file short of using the FileMaker SDK for iOS (that comes later). Here is my FaceBook Live broadcast on this […]
My First FaceBook Live video from my Laptop: I found some great free software that allows me to stream Facebook Live from my laptop. The Live video below is about this blog post. Check it out: If you haven’t heard of the Card Window, it is one of the more heralded features of FileMaker […]
Jason Witherspoon: Requires BaseElements, so not exactly free :-(
Don Clark: It requires the BaseElements Plugin, which is completely free and available here.