Container fields can store and display pictures, Quick Time files, sounds, movies and files of any type. Except, in El Capitan, .avi files. For now. Resisting change make your job harder: Are your attachments missing? FileMaker, Inc. has identified an issue where emails with file attachments created in FileMaker Pro on OS X […]
Richard Carlton invited Todd Geist to the FMPUG Without Borders User Group Meeting last month and dug into the topic of how to make FileMaker Apps with the new FileMaker iOS App SDK. For those considering making an app, the first 1o minutes or so of this video are enlightening. The whole video is worth watching, but […]
MirrorSync 2 from 360Works In January of 2015, Jesse Barnum presented to the New Mexico FileMaker User Group for over two hours, all of it on MirrorSync. He showed us how MirrorSync2 works, how to set it up, how to configure different options, and showed us actual synch operations from: FileMaker Server to FileMaker Server […]
Check out the crazy things you can capture using a custom solution comprising Tesseract OCR and an open source program called Tika. Richard Carlton and William Vaughn discuss optical character recognition and how it can relate to FileMaker and FMSP.
A short video by Richard Carlton on User Interface (UI) indicators that provide feedback to users based on activities or status changes. This video is for beginning to intermediate users. UI Indicators for FileMaker
If you need to interact with outside documents from within FileMaker, you’ll want to use Scribe 2. I have used Scribe to parse information into FileMaker from emails, word and excel FileMaker, as well as write or modify those documents from FileMaker. Powerful stuff. And this keeps you from creating/recreating the document in a […]
If you are developing in FileMaker, you’ll want this download. In fact, you’ll want to re-download this periodically as it’s updated. Why? Because it will save you a lot of time and frustration. It’s a FileMaker Bug Database maintained by PhilModJunk, AKA Phil Caulkins: I’ve been using this database to maintain the Known Bug […]
Learn the basics–and some great tips–of ExecuteSQL: Using Let statements Basic syntax Which is faster: ExecuteSQL or FileMaker search? What makes ExecuteSQL massively slower? Debugging the question mark you get with an error Which custom functions to use to improve coding time with ExecuteSQL Sorting, complex finds, and more
I studied SalesForce at a client’s request a year ago or so, and found it to be a powerful, yet rigid tool. As is necessary for a tool trying to be all things to all people. Take a look at Microsoft Word or Excel. Most users barely scratch the surface of the programs capabilities, and […]
The basics of FileMaker 14 security and sharing over the internet in a bit over 9 minutes by Richard Carlton of FileMaker Videos, including rules for collaborative sharing:
360Works’ RemoteScripter is a great piece of software for running scripts on a client–from a server or another client. Kind of like the Perform Script on Server (PSoS), only backwards. I used RemoteScripter years ago to allow Internet Web Publishing (IWP) clients to print pdf’s on a robot client running on the server. The IWP user clicked […]
Jan Stieperaere: Hi Don, I also wanted to suggest the option to use the 'perform script on other client' method of me.…
Don Clark: Hi Jan- Thanks for the feedback. I remember that video (I posted on it in January) and I remember that…
One of the neat new features of FileMaker 14 is the the new button bar tool. The tool not only make it easy to make tool bars, but it makes use of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) icons within the toolbar buttons. What does that mean to you and your clients? SVG icons are resolution independent, […]
Richard Carlton shows us how to send SMS Messages from FileMaker Pro, and does it without the need for a plugin. It’s pretty straightforward, and if you’re willing to spend a little with Twilio, you can send out a lot of texts this way. Hat tip to Colibri Solutions for developing this solution last year–and don’t forget […]
Security concerns are paramount these days, and for good reason: Hackers, and their bots, are running on the web all the time, probing and poking at routers and data streams. Part of the solution to better security is to install an SSL certificate, which will encrypt data from point to point. SSL does not protect data at […]
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