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 […]
For the more adventurous developers out there, Aaron Giard brings the fourth in his series on using jQuery inside a FileMaker webviewer to build and display charts. But don’t be intimidated! Using jQuery for charts can be broken down into a discrete set of actions: Download the Chart.js library from Github (there is a zip download […]
A simple little twist that leads to an improved user interface. Bob Kelley of the Scarpetta Group combines the Get(windowmode) function with “Hide Object” feature in FileMaker 13 to only show/hide certain buttons when in Find mode, making it less confusing to users, and limiting their ability to change course in the middle of a paused […]
BOB KELLEY of Scarpetta Group takes on object visibility by combining it with the Get(WindowMode) function from FileMaker’s built in functions: This week we want to review Get(WindowMode) that was introduced in FileMaker Pro 6.0 or earlier. As you know it returns 0 for Browse Mode, 1 for Find Mode, 2 for Preview Mode, 3 […]
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 […]
LEARN MORE ABOUT JOE SCARPETTA of the Scarpetta Group–How he ended up becoming a FileMaker developer, how that lead to more and better things, and how the Scarpetta Group is now a Platinum member of the FileMaker Business Alliance. Just a year ago, the Scarpetta Group was a couple of full time developers with several sub […]
AARON GIARD of Scarpetta Group posted part 2 of his series on extending FileMaker’s capabilities with jQuery: For those of you who who have not read it, click to read part 1 of this series to get a preface on some of the techniques I am using to make this happen. I want to create a slider […]
FOR SOME PRETTY GOOD REASONS, many FileMaker developers are hesitant to use any third party tools to extend it’s capabilities. Incompatibilities in new versions, troubleshooting code in other programming languages, or just not wanting to learn so much new stuff all the time are just a few of the reasons. However, it’s time to embrace […]
MORE OUTSIDE THE BOX THINKING, this time by Joe Scarpetta of the Scarpetta Group: Field Boxes everywhere, ugh. As long as I can remember databases have had labels and field boxes, and that goes back to the days of Claris Works, FileMaker 2.1. and others as well, at least when the GUI started to take over. […]
HAVING TROUBLE remembering which FileMaker icon is for V12 and which is for v13? You’re not alone. FileMaker, for reason unknown to mere mortals, did not change the icon between the two versions, causing many to waste time opening, then closing, the wrong version. Not to worry! Aaron Giard of the Scarpetta Group has the […]
GET GRANULAR with FileMaker 13 styles: One of the new features of FileMaker Pro 13 is that Themes now have Styles which let you change and update the attributes of text, buttons, headers, footers and more on layouts or throughout your solution. In following posts I will go further into detail and show more […]
GRAB A DEMO FILE and some sound pointers about FileMaker Sliders from Joe Scarpetta: FileMaker Pro 13: Slip Sliding Away – The Scarpetta Group, Inc..
Location, Part 6: What’s Close? This is Part 6 in a multi-part series about using the location functions in FileMaker Go. 1. Where Am I? 2. What’s Accuracy? 3. Where’s My Stuff? 4. How Far? 5. Which Way? 6. What’s Close? Now that we can use the location functions in FileMaker Go to get our current geographic coordinates and figure our location relative to particular geocoded points […]
This is Part 5 in a multi-part series bout using the location functions in FileMaker Go. 1. Where Am I? 2. What’s Accuracy? 3. Where’s My Stuff? 4. How Far? 5. Which Way? In my last post, I described how to calculate geographic distances between two locations. That’s fine for knowing how close you are to something, but it’s only half […]
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…