I DOWNLOADED THIS FILEMAKER APP and entered the results of the Ghana USA match (Go USA!) this morning. It’s a slick way to track World Cup results and also shows how easy it is to build a quick app for various uses in FileMaker. Hat tip to Salon Hiyake for providing the link–Thanks! Download […]
LEARN MORE ABOUT the “FileMaker Interviewer”, Tim Dietrich, as he gets interviewed for the first time! Learn how and why he became a FileMaker developer, the latest projects he is working on (including his new FileMaker book for beginners), and what he does when he is not developing great FileMaker solutions. Tim Dietrich started interviewing people in […]
POPOVERS ARE ALL THE CRAZE with FileMaker developers these days. Learn how to have fun with popovers, some of the limits of popovers, and more with Dr. Andy Cohen and Lee Strong: Popover Button Fun, Popover limits, Status in our calendar Filemaker Success Tips : 301_FM_Success_Tips.
AS EVERY EXPERIENCED FILEMAKER DEVELOPER KNOWS (heck, an experienced developer in any language, for that matter), there’s more that one way to do a given task. Usually there are several, each having it’s own pro’s and cons. Alexis Allen’s article on controlling the tab action after choosing a value from a drop down is a […]
IF YOU ARE PREPPING for the FileMaker Certification test, you’ll need to know Script Triggers inside and out. Of course, to fully realize their utility, you need to study them closely, anyway. Consider the OnObjectExit script trigger: Triggers a script to run before an active object is exited as a result of the following: a […]
PREPARING A QUOTE FOR A CLIENT IS A TIME CONSUMING PROCESS. You have to assess their needs, both software and hardware, ask plenty of questions, and get a grasp of the project scope. You then need to turn that into a picture of what is needed to complete the project – the tables, layouts, […]
SMALL ORGANIZATIONAL TIPS are often overlooked in the overall picture. Meaning the new or intermediate developer doesn’t get up to speed quickly on tricks that would help organize his efforts. This video from Dwayne Wright shows a simple concept for organizing layouts into folders–simple yet powerful for keeping a handle on where things are in a larger […]
WHAT IS THE FMP URL–AND WHAT CAN YOU REALLY DO WITH IT? How about talk to your FileMaker database directly from a web viewer? Without the need for a web server to host the files and without the need for a server. The big changes with 13.0V2: Call scripts–with parameters–from a web viewer and return results […]
XML HANDLES DATA. And makes it easily movable between different languages and computers and systems. That’s what it does, and it does it well. And FileMaker easily handles XML: FileMaker Pro can import XML data into an existing FileMaker Pro file, or convert XML into a new FileMaker Pro file. The XML can be a […]
ON THE ROAD, no time to read right now, but this article from DB Services looks interesting: If you’re anything like me, you’ve had moments where you needed to modify an icon in an inherited FileMaker solution, but couldn’t, because you couldn’t get the icon out of FileMaker. Embedding an image in a layout is, […]
Bart Bartholomay: Maybe I'm missing something, but why go through hoops when you can simply right-click copy the image in FileMaker layout…
300 PODCASTS–Ya gotta give it up for Dr. Andy Cohen and Lee Strong! It takes a special commitment to produce a show for 6 years, week after week. Well Done! Topics: Go to related record in a different context, Setting grids on served files, Watch your screen resolution Get over there and listen now! Filemaker […]
THE CORE CRM SOLUTION has been around for quite a while (I modified it for a client in the mid-2000’s) and is a pretty impressive piece of software, more so now that the latest update supports FileMaker Pro 13 and WebDirect features: San Diego, CA – May 28, 2014 – Productive Computing, Inc., a Platinum member […]
NETWORK WORLD CHOSE FILEMAKER GO as one of seven free apps new iPad users should choose to get going with business. The list covers a variety of needs: video conferencing, database, mail, calendar, an analytics package, a web clipper, and a signature program. *FileMaker Go 13, by FileMaker If you’re a FileMaker Pro user on your PC […]
DESIGNING USER INTERFACES in FileMaker Pro is a challenge for most, if not all, developers. We all strive for the interface that is great looking, intuitive, and easy to use. This is even more critical given the trends in the industry now towards oversimplification–many times functions and tasks are so well hidden and non-intuitive that experienced […]
Qualifying the Client and Setting Expectations ...: […] You have to assess their needs, both software and hardware, ask plenty of questions, and get a grasp of…