Free SVG Icon Pack – Check it out! FileMaker Examples has a free download of a FileMaker database with, at last count, 89 SVG icons, all fully FileMaker compatible. Which means FileMaker users are easily able to change the fill color as desired: This SVG Icon Pack is not just any collection of SVG icons. These […]
Kudos to Macah Encarnacao, FileMaker Consultant. Macah Encarnacao works at home full time as a FileMaker Consultant from Albuquerque, NM (my home town now for over 25 years). I first met her at our local FileMaker User Group a few years back, where she helped others by sharing her knowledge with others. She placed 4th in the FileMaker […]
FileMaker Heat Map Emory Brown of DB Services builds a FileMaker Heat Map using SVG Icons and conditional formatting: Creating A Heat Map FileMaker not only has the ability to import SVG icons, it also gives the ability to change their color with conditional formatting. This is key to using them for data visualization. All we need to get […]
Interesting links from my wanderings around the web Make your own, import, modify, buy existing sets, or get custom made: Free Icon Font, SVG, PDF and PNG Generator The latest from Dr. Andy Cohen and Lee Strong: Filemaker Success Tips 374: Who ya workin for?, Organizing your layouts, Relationship Graph approaches Some Seth Godin to start your […]
Many to Many Relationships Many to Many Relationships are conceptually difficult for many people to grasp. Douglas Alder tackles the subject in an effort to explain it to one of his clients: One-to-Many Relationships are the standard way of building a relational database. Sometimes a developer comes up against situations where they need something more […]
Kevin Frank digs into his bag of tricks for part 2 of his series and comes up with 11 good FileMaker Tips and Tricks. Tip #1: Get to know COALESCE Tip #2: FM/SQL dates revisited Tip #3: use the NOT operator to simplify logic Tip #4: Use “” in place of Get ( FileName ) […]
THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY LISTS… Most Popular Top 10 Lists of 2015 IF YOU OWN A MAC, YOU WANT THIS FREE SOFTWARE FROM MONKEYBREAD SOFTWARE. Monkeybread Software – Freeware – Tree Size 3.1 It lets you see how large every folder is on a drive or in a given folder. Very handy when you are trying […]
I’ve read that highly successful people read, on average, about 60 books a year. And we’re not talking romance novels, here. Instead, they read business success books, how to books, personal and business development books, and books in a similar vein. Now I understand that reading 60 books a year won’t make me successful all […]
Reinstalling FileMaker Server to troubleshoot an issue If you are having trouble with FileMaker Server 14, you may need to completely uninstall and reinstall FileMaker Server 14. Doing so while preserving settings and data will make the process a lot easier. This article from FileMaker Support details how to do the uninstall and reinstall process. […]
Want to know more about SVG Glyphs and FileMaker? Bob Shockey of Alchemy Group wrote a great blog post about SVG Glyphs last summer, and it’s something every FileMaker developer should read: SVG is a compact vector description that uses XML at its core to describe the image. Unlike a bitmap, which uses a pixel-by-pixel description […]
Exciting New FileMaker Happenings from Mike Beargie Mike Beargie is operating on very little sleep, it appears, with his new website, FileMaker Community Live and a new, free iOS app, CoreScope, that allows FileMaker to grab meta data (think Carrier, Network, Battery info and more) from an iOS device. What is FileMaker Community Live? Here’s the answer in Mike’ own […]
I read every word in every issue of MacWorld for years. My first Mac was a 512k, and of course I was jealous of those who, a few months later, bought the 1mb model, which could be upgraded to 4mb (for about $600). Mental Floss’s journey back in time emphasizes the incredible leaps in computing […]
Claus Lavendt has a new blog and website! While looking for Claus’s great SSL Server Certificate Helper tool, I kept getting 404 not found pages…It turns out Claus just launched his new blog, thebrainbasket.com, and moved the files over there: We share! Here at TheBrainBasket we share. Links, ideas, articles, news, you name it. Feel free […]
Training and Infinite ROI Seth Godin on employee training: Consider an employee who is going to work 2000 hours for you this year. It’s not unusual for an organization to spend only 10 or 20 hours training this person–which means about 1% of their annual workload. How much training would it take for this person to […]
Didier: Don, It's Seth Godin not Grodin
Don Clark: Thanks for the catch, Didier! It's fixed.
Tim Cimbura: See also http://cimbura.com/tech/2015/07/13/svg-custom-icons-and-filemaker-14/
Don Clark: I'll add it to the post. Thanks, Tim!