EXPLORE DIFFERENT USES for the slide control object. And there’s a link to a downloadable example file at the end. Published on Feb 24, 2014 Slide Control is an advanced layout object introduced in Filemaker13.In this video there are steps to create Slider, settings for Slide Control and different ways to design/use Slide Control. This […]
WITH SO MUCH web integration going on, keeping up with trends over there is important. Flash is fading away, replaced by newer technologies: As in the last blog I posted, responsive websites have become increasingly more used leading to a much higher requirement. Sadly, mobile devices do not allow for Flash to be played on […]
ORIGINALLY POSTED IN DECEMBER ’13, Seedcode has updated this post on Popover bugs and fixes. You’ll want to see the new ‘bugs’ and their fixes. FileMaker 13 Popovers: Bugs & Interesting Behaviors – SeedCode Tips.
DIVE DEEP INTO SUMMARY FIELDS with Dwayne Wright: One thing which is often confusing to new users is a summary field calculates on the current found set or the grouping that applies to a sub-summary part. This means you have to take into consideration the “found set” when you have summary fields in reports that […]
HOW DO YOU KNOW if it is good advice? Well, it helps if the author isn’t selling it: If somebody told me years ago that a future generation of would-be entrepreneurs would learn how to sell from a bunch of writers, researchers, and consultants who’ve never sold a product or managed a sales force in […]
THE SECOND VIDEO on popovers and vertical navigation from Danial Shanahan (Part 1 here). Published on Jan 21, 2014 In this second of two videos I show the tables, fields, scripts, and parameters I used to make this vertical navigation. Download the file at http://newleafdata.com/downloads-fmp…. Worth the watch.
INTERFACE DESIGN is a critical part of successful solution: It’s no great mystery that truly great user interfaces are the ones that are engineered to stay out of the way. ‘Staying out of the way’ means not distracting your users. Rather, good UIs let your users complete goals. The result? A reduction in training and […]
THIS IS AN INTERESTING METHOD for managing users and logins from Karsten on Modular FileMaker. UserManagement 3 is a solution to manage users and login procedures. Users are listed in a Filemaker table. Filemaker accounts are functional and per user group. User of the same group share the same settings. In the user table every […]
AS NOTED IN MICHAEL’S VIDEO, this is just a simple illustration-in reality you will need do take more precautions. Be sure to mark the records or have some other system in place insure that the underlying data is not changed after gathering the data for the accounting program. For example, set permissions to lock invoices […]
RE-USING FILEMAKER CODE and layouts is not always easy. Save some steps using Dwayne Wright’s method when possible. To create this report, I went to an existing client subsummary report and duplicated it. I didn’t need the subsummary layout parts, so I deleted all but one of them and converted the other to a body […]
THREE TOOLS I had not heard about, but will find useful. All entrepreneurs want their company to be an overnight success. But if you are lucky enough to experience rapid growth, as Gautum Gupta, founder and CEO of NatureBox discovered, you’ll face a new set of challenges. Read More: My Must-Have Apps: The Digital Tools […]
I HEARD RECENTLY that the starter solutions included with FileMaker Pro are not made by FileMaker. Evidently they are contracted out. Anyway, our thanks to UK FileMaker for this video on how to customize those solutions to meet you needs: Published on Feb 7, 2014 The FileMaker 13 Platform is powerful, flexible and able to […]
LISTEN when you have time: Table View and Web Direct, Simple Imports from Pre-12, Calc Fields or Multi Resources Filemaker Success Tips : 285_FM_Success_Tips.
THERE’S NO WAY to spice this up, but you need to address the use of naming conventions early on in your FileMaker developer career. There are some commonly accepted standards, standards within organizations, and special use needs. Whatever you use, it should be intuitive, easy for you and other developers to use, and consistent. Here’s […]
Karen Weaver: Hi Don! I am pretty sure they have been contracted out since FM7, maybe earlier, but at least that long.…
Don Clark: Thanks for the confirmation, Karen! I read it recently but couldn't find the link.