Some outside the box thinking on button bar icons by Gary Salem at Philly FileMaker (and there’s a downloadable file at the link): While we were going through user acceptance testing, one person said, “Boy it would be nice to have a shopping cart icon on the review button.” I agreed with him. However, to […]
Auditing Data Changes We’ve all seen it before: Someone (and we don’t know who) makes a change to a record and there is no audit trail to follow. The damage is done and the customer gone, and there is no way to figure out how the mistake was made and how to prevent it in […]
Upgrading to FileMaker Go 14 is not quite as easy as you might think. Especially if you want to keep earlier versions (for demo to clients, or due to limitation of a particular system for compatibility). At any rate, it’s easy if you don’t have any existing files to take from FileMaker Go 13 or […]
Auto-highlight a new portal row using conditional formatting and an onTimer script Published on November 13, 2013. 0 Comments When you’re building a robust FileMaker solution, you might find yourself in a situation where you want to control additions to a portal row via a scripted process rather than by using the “Allow creation of records in this […]
Respect the Inspector – What to try if a Pop-Up Menu appears blank Published on November 13, 2013. 0 Comments Recently I was tasked with converting an existing FileMaker 11 solution to FileMaker 12. As is often the case, the conversion was quick and painless and the solution just plain worked as expected in FileMaker 12. However, I […]
Meeting Recap: Ronnie Rios Sample Files Published on October 28, 2013. 0 Comments Last Thursday Ronnie Rios (Systems Engineer at FileMaker Inc) came by and presented at the Philly FileMaker User Group. The topic was charting, and Ronnie did a great job of laying out the options from a developer and end user perspective. As promised, he passed […]
FileMaker DevCon 2013: My Shortlist – Colin Keefe Published on July 26, 2013. 3 Comments One of the joys and frustrations of FileMaker DevCon is having to select from the smorgasbord of session options (though it’s a dilemma whose pain has been eased by the fact that many sessions are now recorded). via FileMaker DevCon […]
Calling an OS X bash/shell script from a FileMaker script using AppleScript Published on June 28, 2013. 0 Comments Sometimes you have a FileMaker script that needs the OS to take care of something before it can proceed. Windows can execute a batch script using the Send Event script step: cmd /c c:\batchfile.bat param1 param2 […]
The most important feature in FileMaker 12 is arguably the ExecuteSQL function. This is the first of an occasional series highlighting some real life uses of this new and exciting technique. One reason I’m learning to embrace ExecuteSQL is because it lets you perform many tasks without accessing the Relationship Graph. Recently I started working […]