Thousands of free SVG Icons, Avatars, Placeholders, Animations and Gradients from Elemental FM Daniel Wood released a new Free FileMaker Example File called Elemental FM. Note: Wood does request a donation to fund further development, but the donation is not required. And the file is fully unlocked. Elemental FM contains an unbelievable number of goodies […]
Building a Multilingual App in FileMaker I just finished reading and, to a limited degree, studying Daniel Wood’s post on building a multilingual app in FileMaker. If you need to take on a challenge of this nature, you must read and study his post. And don’t forget to download the free FileMaker example file, as […]
FileMaker Goodies I’ve been collecting interesting links here and there, saving them up to share. Here goes in no particular order: Douglas Alder sends web data directly to FileMaker (with a free FileMaker Example File at the link): Ever wish there was a way to ‘Send to FileMaker’ from your Web Browser? Turns out there […]
FileMaker Tricks Exporting to Excel Five years ago, Kevin Frank developed and wrote an exhaustive series of articles on exporting to Excel. The whole point of his series was to bypass the very limited options provided in FileMaker to give the end-user a nice looking spreadsheet without having to do a lot of manipulation in […]
A FileMaker Sliding Drawer that Opens on MouseOver Daniel Wood of Digital Fusion wrote about FileMaker sliding drawers way back in July of 2014, and I somehow missed it. Dang it. Anyway, sliding drawers have, for good reason, grown in popularity and capability since Wood’s blog post. Check out the Hamburger Menu post and this Unique CRM […]
Were you using Mandrill to send emails through FileMaker? And did you stop (or want to stop) when Mandrill started charging for small accounts? If so, you’ll want to check out this blog post from Daniel Wood of Digital Fusion: This is where SparkPost comes in. SparkPost is a new web service sending emails much like […]
Have you ever used a FileMaker development tool from Dracoventions? I have: I’ve been using their developer tool (now called Developer Assistant) for several years. It provides not often used functionality, but when you need it, it saves a lot of time and hassle. Developer Assistant V3.0 has plenty of new features: Ability to search in […]
FileMaker 14 has plenty of new features, and I thought I knew all the major (and a lot of the minor) ones. But one completely escaped my attention until I read about it on Weetbicks (Digital Fusion’s blog page: Navigation Parts. Navigation Parts are a brand layout feature with the following characteristics: There is a top […]
EfficientBizz: Just one thing I hardly miss: Option enable/disable Zoom for Navigation Parts. Currently, it's disabled by default. Otherwise, we could…
How well do you know the new formatting and styling options in FileMaker 14? Have you started using them? Daniel Wood of Digital Fusion has a great post (with a downloadable file) that dives a bit deeper: FileMaker just keeps getting better! With 14 we have more flexibility than ever before when it comes to […]
One of the most vexing–and potentially time consuming–problems for FileMaker developers is building navigation menu bars for complex solutions. Each navigation menu was usually context sensitive and therefore hard to copy and paste between different layouts. A lot of work went into making and testing the changes. Over the years, there have been several very […]
A very nicely thought out system of FileMaker script workspace shortcuts using the new type ahead feature found in FileMaker 14 Script Workspace. Daniel Wood of Digital Fusion took the time to figure out the most intuitive and the shortest keystroke combinations necessary to invoke a given script step. He took it a step further by adding, when […]
One of the most frustrating issues when dealing with ExecuteSQL is the dreaded question mark (“?”) FileMaker returns as the result of the malformed query. Your query does not work for some reason, but you have no idea what the problem is. Daniel Wood, of Digital Fusion, stumbled upon a method to coerce a useful error […]
THERE HAVE BEEN lots of articles bemoaning WebDirect’s lack of support for printing. One of the options tossed about is using a robot FileMaker client–a standalone computer running FileMaker dedicated to processing print jobs for all users. Digital Fusion Weetbicks tried this approach, adding a twist that is simple and effective: Display the PDF in a container field, allowing […]
DANIEL WOOD OF WEETBICKS has extended the work he did with sliding drawers to popovers: In our last article, we introduced a generic technique that could be used to replicate a mouse-over effect. This used a combination of a custom function, script, plugin and tooltips to allow the user to expand and collapse a sliding […]
Gerard van der Wolf: The sliding drawer is nice. But since it depends on an old version of the plugin I cannot use it…
Don Clark: Check out the Hamburger Menu post. It does not use a plugin to make it work.