FileMaker REST using BaseElements Plugin Matt Petrowsky, of ISO FileMaker Magazine, puts out high-quality instructional videos and example files on a weekly basis. And to support this, he charges a very modest fee for access. If you are serious about developing FileMaker, it’s a smart move to subscribe. The time savings you’ll reap by watching […]
Build a FileMaker iOS APP SDK Richard Carlton builds a FileMaker iOS APP during this presentation, and that alone make it worth watching (and studying) this video presentation from FileMaker DevCon 2016: But you’ll also want to watch it to learn more about the do’s and don’t’s of building your own FileMaker iOS APP: Which […]
Building Self-Updating Apps Katherine Russell’s (Nightwing Enterprises) second presentation at FileMaker DevCon 2016 is all about building self-updating apps: the concept, the steps you should take, what to look out for, and more. Self-updating apps is something I have seen recently in a separation model solution where the data file remains the same, but the interface […]
Find and Replace in FileMaker Just for the fun of it, I read up on the Find and Replace feature in FileMaker – a feature I rarely use. Why not? Because I am a developer. I use the FileMaker’s Find function, the Replace All function, or a script designed to do exactly what I want done. Admirable, […]
Transform Your Service Business Inefficient processes, information scattered across multiple applications, both in the web and on your systems, and dealing with rigid technologies that cannot adapt to a businesses needs. These three business problems affect almost all businesses, especially small service businesses. Big business can afford to build expensive, custom apps and thereby reap the […]
WebViewer Integrations Library Jeremy Brown, of Soliant Computing, spent the last two or so years exploring ways to integrate WebViewer solutions into FileMaker databases. As you may know, there is a world of great code waiting to be put to use with FileMaker. The problem is putting FileMaker data into that code in a structured […]
FileMaker Developers Interview – Lesterius Team Meet and learn more about Lesterius, a Platinum FileMaker company, from Roland Jacobs, David Julot, Tristan Meul (all with Lesterius) and Jasper Schoonackers (with myFMBUTLER, which is owned by Lesterius) in this wide ranging interview from DevCon 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. We all had a great time and learned a […]
FileMaker to Slack, Dropbox, Trello, MailChimp, ZenDesk and back. Automatically. At FileMaker DevCon 2016, I caught glimpses of the future for FileMaker and FileMaker developers. And Salvatore Colangelo’s Devcon2016 presentation drove it home by showing how FileMaker’s role in this future it to act a central information hub for a variety of web services: FileMaker to […]
FileMaker Relational Design Jeremiah Hammond from DB Services on FileMaker Relational Design, something every aspiring FileMaker developer needs to understand at a deep level: Understanding how to use the relationship graph is fundamental for custom app development in FileMaker. Developers must understand both relational design—tables, keys, and how to use keys to relate tables—and context. […]
FileMaker Cloud and AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) has come a long way since in the last three years, making great strides in usability and offerings. How does this apply to the FileMaker world? FileMaker teamed up with AWS in 2016 to provide a linux based server known as FileMaker Cloud. FileMaker Cloud is, basically, FileMaker Server […]
Learn about the Math of Visual Design from Alexis Allen of DesigningFileMaker.com For those who did not or could not attend Devcon 2016, watch this video presentation that goes over the math of visual design. Allen covers the math (and more) in her presentation: The Golden Ratio Symmetry Hick’s law (the time required to make […]
There are changes to what is popular – and working – in Form Design And these changes apply to what you need to know about form design in FileMaker. And I think this is a good thing, as form design (and readability) suffered from the Flat Design fiasco that swept the design world a couple […]
A FileMaker Sliding Drawer that Opens on MouseOver Daniel Wood of Digital Fusion wrote about FileMaker sliding drawers way back in July of 2014, and I somehow missed it. Dang it. Anyway, sliding drawers have, for good reason, grown in popularity and capability since Wood’s blog post. Check out the Hamburger Menu post and this Unique CRM […]
FileMaker Licensing Explained. This is the best explanation of the current state of FileMaker Licensing I have read/heard so far. Kudos to Mislav Kov of Soliant Consulting for taking the time to untangle the maze: Over the past few years, FileMaker, Inc. has introduced new products and functionality to expand the FileMaker platform, tweaked its licensing programs, […]
Gerard van der Wolf: The sliding drawer is nice. But since it depends on an old version of the plugin I cannot use it…
Don Clark: Check out the Hamburger Menu post. It does not use a plugin to make it work.