FASCINATING glimpse back to the beginning of Filemaker: The history of Filemaker starts back in the early 1980s with four people who originally worked at Wang Laboratories, headquartered in Lowell Massachusetts: Spec Bowers, Alan Albert, Dan Chadwick, Jega Arulpragasam. Wang Labs had a political culture back then, if you were on the inside track (essentially, […]
WIM DECORTE brings some clarity to the use of variables throughout FileMaker: FileMaker has three types of variables for use in those different scopes: global variables: they have a double dollar sign prefix ($$myvar) and once declared they will retain their value until the FileMaker file closes (or some scripted or calculated action clears their […]
BE CAREFUL trapping for modifier keys – sometimes it can backfire! There are times when you want to allow some advanced functionality when a combination of modifier keys (shift, alt, ctrl, etc.) are held down. I’ve seen some developers go nuts with this – using one button with 5 or 6 functions based on what […]
1,000, ooo FILEMAKER GO Apps downloaded for iPad and iPhone: SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 5, 2014 – FileMaker, Inc., today announced that its FileMaker Go for iPad and iPhone apps have surpassed 1,000,000 downloads from the iTunes App Store. The milestone confirms the continued popularity of the FileMaker Platform for creating custom business solutions that run […]
INTERESTING LAYOUT ANIMATION TECHNIQUE from Seedcode. There’s a video and download file at the link: The animations introduced in FM13 are great, but they still don’t let us animate the transition from one layout to another. This is something we’re looking for as it’s often used in iOS apps to move from list to detail […]
FILEMAKER DIDN’T SHARE all of the improvements in FileMaker 13. Emory Brown found them for us. FileMaker 13 introduced many new features, including a number of very useful enhancements to the relationship graph, none of which are included in the help file or release notes. This is rather surprising, as several of these improvements to […]
SHOW AN OBJECT based upon the active field. Nice little function.
GOOD ADVICE from Entrepreneur.com: What does “click-worthy” mean? Besides the general “worthy of clicking and viewing/reading,” it means that users are able to find the information you want them to find and take the actions you want them to take.
DID YOU EVER WISH you could make a multi-pin map in FileMaker? Douglas Alder did, and he made it happen: My goal was to make a simple modular and portable script that developers (myself included) could just paste into their solution and modify a few steps and have it up and running quickly. This demo […]
COOL – FILEMAKER PRO talking to Google Earth: One of our graduate students here at UC is investigating the movement of artifacts from the origin to archaeological find spot. She had been gathering her data in a FileMaker Pro database and wanted to be able to visualize the quantity of material either sourced or found in […]
Bar Charts in Google Earth from FileMaker - EASY APPS!: [...] Original article here. [...]
KEVIN FRANKS extends his excellent series of posts on virtual lists – this time showing how to displays 3 columns of the same data in browse mode: Recently a question came up on the FMP Experts list re: the possibility of displaying a found set of customers in 3 columns in browse mode in FileMaker […]
NIFTY LITTLE Execute SQL function that returns the highest set (n) of values from a field. FileMaker Custom Function:TopResults ( FieldName ; TableName ; Results).
UKFILEMAKER strikes again – a short video extolling the virtues of FileMaker’s core strengths. FileMaker “Escape from Excel” Event at Look Mum No Hands! Café in Old Street, London – YouTube.
ANOTHER GREAT AUDIO from FileMaker Success Tips. 282_FM_Success_Tips Big Imports, Flashterm, Managing new field names Filemaker Success Tips : 282_FM_Success_Tips
Robert Monasky: can't read the whole article. Tried clicking on "Read the whole thing." which isn't a link. How do I get…
Don Clark: I added a link to that phrase. Try it now.