All work and no play is never any fun. So let’s start the new year with a bit of fun before getting down to business: Stuart Gripman built a database that generates ancient insults: Old Timey Insult Generator – FileMaker Database. This guy found a piece of his T-bird inside his arm 51 years […]
The Count function is a scripting staple for FileMaker developers, and it is used in a variety of ways, usually as a way to count related records as some sort of a test. But as Stuart Gripman points out, it is really handy in the same table, as well: Count simply tells you how […]
Version 0.73 is the latest, and this new release includes improved Python list & set support, and allows additional parameters to shell commands. So, what is bbox, you might ask? It’s a free FileMaker plugin from Beezwaz for Mac users: bBox FileMaker external plug-in is a toolbox of functions freely available to all developers. Use it to extend […]
What would you change or add to FileMaker if you had a magic wand? Ryan Klenk of Anvil Dataworks offers up his wish list of goodies: FileMaker has always been great at consistently developing and delivering new features to their platform and it’s allowed us to create some awesome solutions for our customers. Even so, […]
Rick Rowland: I'd like to see some simple looping in calculations. What I could write in Delphi as X := 10; for…
Don Clark: That would be nice, indeed!
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Matt Petrowsky put together a great video about the Perform Script on Server (PSoS) command. While there are many benefits to PSoS, this video focuses on installing plugins on either the server or a client (Mac or Windows) on startup. The plugins in his example are Base Elements from Goya and Scriptmaster from 360Works, both great […]
What do you know about web security and FileMaker Pro? Hi, this is Don Clark of FileMaker Pro Gurus, and FM Database Consulting. The following video is part four of a four part series featuring Rosemary Tietge, a FileMaker Consulting Engineer. Rosemary presented at the December 2014 New Mexico FileMaker User Group meeting – and […]
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What do you know about web security and FileMaker Pro? Is your FileMaker server safe from attack and compromise? Uploaded on Dec 26, 2014 What do you know about web security and FileMaker Pro? Hi, this is Don Clark of FileMaker Pro Gurus, and FM Database Consulting. The following video is part three of a […]
What do you know about web security and FileMaker Pro? Is your FileMaker server safe from attack and compromise? Uploaded on Dec 22, 2014 What do you know about web security and FileMaker Pro? Hi, this is Don Clark of FileMaker Pro Gurus, and FM Database Consulting. The following video is part two of a […]
What do you know about web security and FileMaker Pro? Is your server safe from attack and compromise? This video is part one of a four part series featuring Rosemary Tietge, a FileMaker Consulting Engineer. Rosemary presented at the December 2014 New Mexico FileMaker User Group meeting – and it’s basically an updated version of […]
The need to export FileMaker data to Excel with custom column names is something most developers will encounter from time to time. Face it, people don’t want to read obscure column names or try to figure out what they really mean when they need to change them. Jeroen Aarts of Clickworks shares his technique: Could you […]
This article is focused on building a more effective webpage, but the principles found within apply to FileMaker design, as well. Knowing how user eye tracking occurs allows you to build a more effective help page and a more visually pleasant experience for the end user: The logo should be placed at the top […]
Nick Lightbody, of Deskspace Systems Ltd, has his first guest host post at FileMakerHacks. It’s about dealing with overloaded FileMaker 13 servers, and he’s done a pretty thorough job of describing the issue, addressing the problem, and giving the solutions. The true load factor on FileMaker Server itself – ignoring for these purposes the load caused by slow […]
Gianandrea Gattinoni: Very interesting, but unfortunately, I found some errors in the demo file (field definitions, queries, etc.) f.i. invoice::number and invoice::total…
Don Clark: Good catch! I don't normally have time to dig into these files until I need to use them.