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 […]
Connecting FileMaker: DropBox, LiveCode, QB Let’s start with an oldie but goodie: Connecting FileMaker to QuickBooks. David Nahodyl shares a livestream presentation of Marc Larochelle of Productive Computing doing a nuts to bolts install of FM Books Connector, along with tips on using the connector once live: I fixed up two different connections to Quickbooks in […]
Check this out! Claus Lavendt of DataManix is working on a FileMaker solution that will work with hand gestures over the screen–no touching necessary! I can see uses by mechanics, oil jobbers, and construction workers. Or just about any job that requires getting your hands dirty all the time, for that matter. Get the data entered with […]
Are you integrating FileMaker with web services yet? If not, get busy studying and learn, or risk getting left in other developers dust. The massive growth in web capabilities in recent years has resulted in a wealth of apps and services that have quickly become valuable tools for businesses and people all over the world. Think Airbnb, Uber, […]
THIS HAS TRIPPED ME UP BEFORE, TOO. Setting up a dropbox link with FileMaker Server can be frustrating: In the FileMaker Server Admin Console, 1) Click on Schedules 2) Add a new schedule by clicking the small calendar icon 3) Select your databases to back up, then click ‘Next’. 4) The second screen you will see is […]
Can't get FileMaker Server to Backup to DropBox...: […] What to do when you get an "Invalid Path" error when trying to set up a Dropbox folder as…
Don Clark: It's usually a permissions issue. Change the folders permissions to allow read and write privileges and it should work.