LINKS TO THINGS and more fun stuff I’ve been reading: More Seth Godin goodness: “It’s Not About You.” http://buff.ly/1kKQV58 A great start to changing your life: The Only 7 Things We Truly Can Control in Life—and How to Rock Them All: http://buff.ly/1yNn5aD Great Design does make a difference in the bottom line: The Bottom Line Value of Design http://buff.ly/1iLIG9e […]
A NICELY WRITTEN post on variables from Dwayne Wright. Some topics don’t change much over the years, and this one stands the test of time: A local variable is defined by adding a single dollar sign in its name such as $InvoiceNumber, $ClientID or $Counter. A local variable will store it’s information within the script […]
WEBDIRECT REPLACED IWP in FileMaker 13, and it was a big change in how FileMaker approached web integration. Instant Web Publishing had been around for a long time, and was ready for retirement. Gwyn Jenkins of Linear Blue explores the differences between the two: The introduction of WebDirect at the expense of Instant Web Publishing […]
HERE’s SOMETHING I’ll bet you didn’t know (I didn’t). It seems Web Viewers cover all objects on a layout, but those objects are clickable if layered on top of the Web Viewer. For example, a popover placed on top of a Web Viewer does not show on the screen, but can be activated with […]
Time for podcast episode #302. These guys are tireless, to the benefit of us all: New Use Case ruins the key. Should you always do what your client asks? How to get the customer moving. I particularly like their take on how to get clients moving along on a project. Listen to the whole thing. […]
JOIN DON CLARK AND KEVIN HAMMOND DB Services as they talk about Kevin’s path to FileMaker Platinum status, his favorite FileMaker tools, his life outside of FileMaker, and much more. This is the third interview in a series of interviews featuring prominent people in the FileMaker Community. Subscribe to this channel to see future interviews. If […]
KEVIN HAMMOND of DB Services mentioned in his FileMakerProGurus video interview that his favorite FileMaker Plugin was BaseElements: The BaseElements plugin is a free and open source plugin, available to everyone to extend the built in functions of FileMaker Pro. Originally conceived to replace two separate plugins for our developer tool BaseElements, we’ve since extended and adapted […]
OK, I’M TALKING ABOUT TABLE OCCURRENCE relationships here, not the other kind. Although those might get more hits… Dwayne Wright explores the basic different types of relationships that are possible between two tables: …there is a feature in the FileMaker define relationship dialog box, you can define what is a compatible relationship. For example, say we have […]
EfficientBizz: I've been told (and actually believe) that cartesian [x] and comparable [≥≤] operators are speedkillers. To avoid cartesian, i have…
A QUICK FIX for Douglas Alder’s Cluster Maps demo–check it out if you missed it the first time, it’s a cool technique. Previous versions of the Cluster Maps demo have suffered from a formatting issue. I have known about this for a while, but haven’t had the time to fix it. I also thought it […]
I UNDERSTAND WHY JAVA needs to continuously update their product–I really do. New features, bug fixes, new functionality–it all makes sense. What I don’t understand is why it breaks FileMaker Server or Server Admin dang near every time. Thankfully, FileMaker Server 13 is HTML based and not subject to this little dance anymore. Here’s the […]
GREG LANE OF SKELETON KEY explores using ExecuteSQL to produce more effective charts–which is what our clients want, isn’t it? This is part one of three: Sometimes as software developers we get caught up in the details of collecting, storing, and displaying data. To our clients, this is rarely the ultimate goal. Our clients want […]
I HAVE WANTED TO DO THIS A FEW TIMES BEFORE, but never bad enough to pursue a solution: Have you ever wanted to have a script toggle the Formatting Bar on/off in browse mode? If so, you will discover that FileMaker does not provide a “Show/Hide Formatting Bar” script step. Follow the link to see […]
HERE’S SOME MORE ON REFRESHING OBJECTS AND FIELDS. This should be of concern to all developers–we all have times where we can’t get a pesky field to update. Seedcode wrote this article last December on just this subject, and explains how it lets you get granular in it’s application: However, the new script step “Refresh Object” […]
REFRESHING RESULTS through a relationship in FileMaker can sometimes be frustrating. You will need to find a way to nudge the related records in order to get the updated results you need to show. Daniel Wood tackles this issues and developed a way to fix it: Cartesion Joins! The refresh problem arises because the relationship […]
James Bardwell: Donald, doesn't FM 13's "Refresh Object" script step help to address the need to refresh a named portal?
Don Clark: Hi James- Yes, it does: If the specified object is in a portal, Refresh Object updates the object in every…
Oakland A's use FileMaker to Scout Opposing Players: […] didn’t know they were using FileMaker to build a system like this. And what’s more, Kevin Hammond of DB…