The low down on FileMaker Inventory Implementation Last week I interviewed Danial Shanahan, New Leaf Data, LLC. on FaceBook Live. Twice. The second time actually contained usable audio. And now I know how to use Ecamm Live much better than before. Thank you, Daniel, for coming back for round two. The good video is embedded […]
(Ed. note) If you haven’t been following Danial Shanahan’s Inventory Resources website, you are missing out on a lot of free, great methods for handling a myriad of inventory challenges. Here’s the latest from Daniel: Acceptable Levels of Goods Received What if you bought apples buy the US ton? You’d expect your supplier to deliver 1 […]
Inventory Magic: Product Variants If you’ve ever tracked inventory in any system, you may have run across the scenario where you’d like to add another record that is just slightly different from an existing record – also known as a product variants. Take the example of shirts. You may have a medium, white, short sleeve, […]
Units of Measure Can you imagine filling out a sales order for 7 butters? 7 butters doesn’t make any sense. It would need to be 7 ounces of butter or 7 packs of butter or 7 cases of butter. Ounces, packs, and cases are all examples of units of measure. When working with inventory, there […]
FileMaker Inventory Resources When I started developing in FileMaker full-time I soon acquired a customer who wanted an inventory management system. I didn’t know that at the time. I knew he wanted to keep track of camera kits that his company rents out. Not long after that I spoke with a distributor who needed to […]
An informative video (and associated blog post with downloads) by Daniel Shanahan of New Leaf Data on four different ways to accomplish the same task: Updating inventory records in a FileMaker database. Shanahan explains four ways: • 01_Find and Update.fmp12 is straight forward enough. Find the item and the Item location records and update them […]
DANIEL SHANAHAN of New Leaf Data built 10 different grids masters in popular sizes, complete with gutters and spacers. This will take the sting out of getting the proper layout design started–often a challenge to developers, especially when looking at a blank screen. This demo shows how to create multiple layout grids in FileMaker Pro […]
I HADN’T given much thought to changing a timestamp from text to a timestamp. Didn’t even think it was necessary. But it turns out there are some instances where it is. Daniel Shanahan shows us how: FileMaker Server has a timestamp on its log. However, when you export the log data and import it into […]
- FileMakerProGurus: […] into a usable timestamp. Watch this if you want to improve those skills. Part 1 can be found here. FileMaker…
MODAL WINDOW REVERT RECORD UPDATE IN FILEMAKER That’s a mouthful, but it’s worth watching Daniel Shanahan’s video to learn more about it. Modal Window Revert Record Update – YouTube.
POPOVERS BRING BIG CHANGES TO LAYOUT DESIGN: Published on Jan 21, 2014 Vertical navigation is once again popular on the web, particularly on data driven sites. In FileMaker, the typical navigation pattern is often a horizontal menu bar. Some developers incorporate vertical navigation in their systems with the use of a portal. Unfortunately, the portal alone […]
Popovers and Vertical Navigation - Part 2 - FileMakerProGurus: [...] THE SECOND VIDEO on popovers and vertical navigation from Danial Shanahan (Part 1 here). [...]
Published on Dec 6, 2013 By Daniel Shanahan Popovers are a great new feature in FileMaker Pro 13. They can contain a variety of different layout objects, including portals. However, when the popover object is in a portal, it will not display a secondary portal. This is because a portal cannot contain a portal, or more […]
Published on Apr 1, 2012 by Daniel Shanahan As FileMaker Pro developers we are often required to take a flat file and normalize it. Here are the steps that I take to normalize a database in FileMaker Pro 11. The sample file is available at http://newleafdata.com/downloads.php via ▶ 07 – Importing part b – YouTube. […]
Daniel Shanahan of New Leaf Data on how to populate a Foreign Key in a join table… 09 – Populate fk in join table – YouTube.
Cool new website. FileMaker-UI – YouTube.
Lee Smith: Where do you find the sample files? Every link I clicked here is like a loop.
Daniel Shanahan: Hi Lee, Sorry about that. The form on the website was incorrect. It should work now. Once you fill out…