Inverted Portals in FileMakerThe Holy Grail for FileMaker Developers? Once in a while a great trick comes along that needs just a little more attention. Doug West of Excelisys developed one last year showing off inverted portals in FileMaker. So what is an inverted portal? It’s a portal that allows users to enter data […]
Maximizing FileMaker WebDirect Performance and Scalability FileMaker WebDirect made it possible – most of the time – to log in to a database from a web browser and just have it work. Which is really an incredible thing when you think about it. And by the way, it’s not recommended for production databases without some fine […]
FileMaker Data API Did you know FileMaker Server 16 can turn your FileMaker App into a web service using the new FileMaker Data API? It’s true – any application that can generate an http call and handle JSON data can now talk to your FileMaker server. And it is fast and relatively easy to set […]
A new video from Richard Carlton on FileMaker 16 new features: Carlton’s choice for FileMaker 16 top 10 new features are in this short video released today: If you don’t have time to watch, here’s the list of FileMaker 16 Top 10 New Features: FileMaker 16 still uses .fmp12 file format, no need to convert […]
Connecting FileMaker: DropBox, LiveCode, QB Let’s start with an oldie but goodie: Connecting FileMaker to QuickBooks. David Nahodyl shares a livestream presentation of Marc Larochelle of Productive Computing doing a nuts to bolts install of FM Books Connector, along with tips on using the connector once live: I fixed up two different connections to Quickbooks in […]
FileMaker Cloud Trial Subscription Did you know there is a FileMaker Cloud trial subscription, and that it comes with a 15 day trial for the first instance? Not only that, but it is available with your choice of 5, 10, 25, or 100 users connections, and there is no hourly software charge from FileMaker. Of course, […]
FileMaker Server on AWS Jesse Barnum’s presentation from DevCon 2016 on deploying FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services EC2: I moved my servers to EC2 both for myself and my clients (where appropriate) within the past year. If your business can utilize Wide Area Network (WAN) services, you should take a serious look at Amazon’s EC2 […]
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 […]
FileMaker Beginner Sunny Chu started a youtube channel about a year ago aimed at helping FileMaker beginners get started a little faster. Below is his first video covering the basics of looping to modify groups of records. Looping is one of the most basic script features, and is also one of the most powerful. Anytime […]
BaseElements by Nicholas Orr Kudos to David Nahodyl of Blue Feather for getting Nick Orr to do a livestream presentation on BaseElements, the FileMaker database analyzer program. Not to be confused with the free Base Elements plugin used by so many developers. Nicholas Orr from Goya presented at our developer meeting this month. Watch the recording of the […]
FileMaker Tricks Exporting to Excel Five years ago, Kevin Frank developed and wrote an exhaustive series of articles on exporting to Excel. The whole point of his series was to bypass the very limited options provided in FileMaker to give the end-user a nice looking spreadsheet without having to do a lot of manipulation in […]
FileMaker in the Enterprise There’s so much new innovation in the FileMaker area these days that it’s hard to keep up and easy to miss what’s happening: Web integration, cloud services, new versions, new techniques, new custom functions…the list keeps on growing. And this change is happening rapidly. One such area seeing rapid growth is FileMaker […]
Gianandrea Gattinoni: Very cool! in the first video (Soliant) do you know how works the data replication? does it work in different…
Don Clark: It seems to be stored in the MySQL server that is at the bottom of the diagram. The details on…
Frictionless UX Hacks Susan Prosser’s presentation at FileMaker DevCon 2016 on Frictionless UX Hacks: Do you think that trendy colors, a snappy custom theme, and a smooth workflow are all that goes into great user experience (UX)? Get your head out of Layout Mode and turbo-charge your custom apps so users make the right choices, get […]
Tim Beck: Just a friendly request: Links should open in a new window. Often, I lose track of the remainder of your…
Don Clark: Thanks for the feedback, Tim. I prefer that way of setting up links, too, but once in a while I…
FileMaker and REST From Mason Stenquist of DB Services, watch this 6:23 minute video on integrating FileMaker and REST. And, better yet, download the free example file and have some fun picking it apart. CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) is the acronym used to describe the four ways to integrate with a datasource using the REST API, […]
Lee Smith: Where do you find the sample files? Every link I clicked here is like a loop.
Daniel Shanahan: Hi Lee, Sorry about that. The form on the website was incorrect. It should work now. Once you fill out…