TODD GEIST released new modular code that will apply a watermark to images. Watermark takes advantage of HTML5 to call the Canvas element and place a custom watermark on your image. You can control, the opacity, position and offset from within FileMaker as well. You don’t need to know anything about HTML5 or JavaScript to […]
AMONG OTHER THINGS, it fixes the FMP URL protocol–it now works with FileMaker Pro local files (it worked before on hosted files and on FileMaker Go). More on that later–it’s big news. Other fixes are in the areas of layout rendering, text editing, calculations and scripting, and the application itself. Follow the link for more […]
DELETE FILEMAKER GO RECORDS in the style of IOS – swipe to the side and hit the delete button that slides in. FileMakerBloggen.se brings us this handy tip: You always wished that FileMaker Go was more like real apps in iOS, didn’t you!? Now with FileMaker 13 I would argue that we have come far […]
FILEMAKER 11 ADMIN CONSOLE crashes after updating Java? Java updates seem to break the admin console periodically – backwards compatibility does not rank high on the Java list. Special thanks to Simon at Beezwax for finding a solution to it this time: Adding in the missing manifest is obviously preferable, but when not in a […]
NOT SURE HOW I MISSED THIS last summer, but Chris Ippolite modified Douglas Alders cluster map, which uses JavaScript, HTML5, and the google API to make map of clients. FileMaker can be extended in so many ways to meet a client’s needs. Published on Jun 1, 2013 In this demo we show a modified version of […]
DIGGING INTO the Enlightened theme in Part 3 of James Scarpetta’s series of posts on FileMaker themes. I am looking forward to the part 4. One thing to note about Popover styles is that the buttons are set to a Default button style which I left to demonstrate only the popovers. You can however change […]
DESIGNING FILEMAKER introduces us to Canva.com, a great online design tool. Design a variety of progress bars using this neat tool: First, you’ll create the graphics in Canva and save them to your computer. Next, you’ll open them in Preview and tweak them a bit, and save the different versions you’ll need. Last, you’ll insert […]
GUY STEVENS shows two different ways to navigate amongst records using drop down lists. Nicely done video. Record Navigation using a dropdown in Filemaker – YouTube.
WHY DID YOUR FILEMAKER SOLUTION SLOW DOWN SO MUCH when you add lots of users? Record locking, slow reports, user aborted scripts, and closed windows are just a start. What do you do to fix these problems? To be clear, these are not bugs or things that FileMaker is doing wrong. These are issues that […]
IT’S FREE TO DOWNLOAD and you can read, view, and present. But to create requires an Office 365 subscription. Delving deeper into the offering, Office for iPad brings full file fidelity across Office on PC, Mac, tablet and phone, and along with cloud storage from OneDrive or OneDrive for Business your files are up to […]
SEEDCODE’S CALENDAR now works in WebDirect. There’s a lot of complex code in their calendar–I’ll glad they got it to work. I’ have clients who will make use of that at some point. Preview: SeedCode Calendar in Web Direct. – SeedCode.
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, and flat is the new UI. If you want to incorporate flat UI elements in your solutions, this is a good place to start. 15 free UI kits, some of them pretty dang attractive: And some out there a ways: But to each, his own. Download ’em all. […]
I THINK IT’S THE MOST POWERFUL SOLUTION on the Windows platform, too. Being the most powerful and robust includes features like easier to learn and use, lower development costs, shorter development cycle, and overall product life cycle cost–all areas in which FileMaker excels. FileMaker integrates with other software, too–SQL, PHP, XML, HTML, CSS–to name a […]
STEADY AS SHE GOES: Andy Cohen and Lee Strong with session #290: More working with themes and styles, Check Logo / Image jpg size, Repeating field fields It will be interesting to hear what they have to say about repeating fields. Filemaker Success Tips : 290_FM_Success_Tips.