Creativity or Rip Off and Duplicate? I get a kick out of the second part of the above statement – the “rip off or duplicate” part. James Scarpetta quoted that phrase in his DevCon 2018 presentation on interface design last summer – and he quoted a professional photographer sharing what he perceived as a universal […]
Jarvis CRM I interviewed Joe and James Scarpetta at their DevCon 2017 exhibition booth and learned more about Jarvis CRM. Joe Scarpetta is man behind Jarvis, a powerful and well built Customer Relations Manager (CRM). What makes Jarvis CRM unique? Among other things, it takes full advantage of FileMaker 16 Card Windows, JSON, and other […]
James Scarpetta put together a handy dynamic portal search technique that works fast and finds matching records across any number of fields–a very nice feature for your clients! This technique requires custom functions, but is very fast, easy to implement, and close to modular in design: So here is another one of those things I […]
The Perform Script on Server (PSoS) showed up in FileMaker Server 13 back in November of 2013. Since then, there have been several good sources for learning more about it: PSoS FileMaker Perform Script on Server – YouTube PSoS FileMaker Tutorial – Perform Script on Server – YouTube PSoS 100x Faster – Flight Testing FileMaker 13 Perform Script […]
THIS IS AN ISSUE I probably would never notice without it being pointed out: adjusting your layout size to allow for showing more data once the iOS status bar (the area where the time, battery status, and signal strength are shown) is turned off. And now that it has been pointed out, I will be […]
THERE WERE SO MANY NEW FEATURES added in FileMaker V13, it’s sometimes hard to keep track. The latest example of this is the OnGestureTap script trigger and a companion function, Get(TriggerGestureInfo), which allow you to capture gestures in FileMaker Go. James Scarpetta of the Scarpetta Group just posted an article showing how to capture how, when […]
DIGGING INTO the Enlightened theme in Part 3 of James Scarpetta’s series of posts on FileMaker themes. I am looking forward to the part 4. One thing to note about Popover styles is that the buttons are set to a Default button style which I left to demonstrate only the popovers. You can however change […]
FYI - iOS Status Bar In FileMaker Go - FileMake...: […] How do you handle the problem of proper screens size when the user toggles the iOS status bar on…
Mogens Brun: "But in this case, there is no way (yet) to turn of the iOS Status bar with a FileMaker command."…
FYI - iOS Status Bar In FileMaker Go - FileMake...: […] “ How do you handle the problem of proper screens size when the user toggles the iOS status bar…
Mauro Navarro: I do not know what you meant by "Cut the layout size down and they have it turned on, it…