FM Cloud and SSL Certificates – The Brain Basket I posted about setting up FileMaker Cloud servers last week and managed to miss the final, and probably most difficult, part of successfully setting up a FileMaker Cloud Server: Setting up an SSL certificate after the 90-day courtesy certificate expires. Fortunately, Claus Lavendt rides to the rescue (again) […]
There are changes to what is popular – and working – in Form Design And these changes apply to what you need to know about form design in FileMaker. And I think this is a good thing, as form design (and readability) suffered from the Flat Design fiasco that swept the design world a couple […]
Executing Design It’s time for FileMaker’s take on UX design, brought to you by Chih Hsiao, Senior UX Designer at FileMaker: How do you incorporate design into your day-to‐day development activities? Design is not an afterthought but an ongoing practice of planning, testing, and validating your ideas. In this session, we look at examples that […]
The Simple Paste Command Matt Larson of Cimbura.com digs into the simple paste command–it turns out it’s not as simple as one might think: FileMaker’s default Paste behavior is to paste formatted text in a FileMaker text field. Additional steps, either by the user or the developer, must be taken to paste unformatted text. Text stored with custom formatting may […]
Greg Lane at Skeleton Key shows how to use an audio file to allow FileMaker Go 15 to keep processing a script while in the background: Have you ever heard of Jack Ma? He is the founder of the highest valued company in the world (yes, larger than Apple). Jack Ma failed repeatedly, sometimes massively, […]
Modal Dialog windows are straightforward in FileMaker 14 (they were introduced in FileMaker 12, btw), but it’s good to have it explained in a video, especially for newbies: And for a different way to control the window, take a trip back in the time machine and check out this Modal Dialog with roll back from Soliant. It uses […]
DataManix is an FBA Platinum partner now, and is giving away FMS ServerAdminDT to celebrate: We are very proud to announce that FileMaker Inc. has appointed DataManix as a FBA Platinum partner. Platinum partners are specially selected by FileMaker Inc., an Apple subsidiary, for exhibiting the highest level of technical expertise and customer service in […]
Date Magic, Backup Magic, Googles Onhub, and more Michael Rocharde shares a powerful, fairly simple way to handle reservations for just about anything: It’s a common scenario. You’ve got a reservation system of some kind or another and you have a limited number of resources available. When you add a reservation (for a specific date), […]
I just went through most of this setup of MirrorSync 2, and this video is helpful to those who haven’t set it up before. I am trying this out for client that needs two way synching with a MySQL database on a custom website. Since only parts of the database are synched, the process can […]
Interesting links from my wanderings around the web Make your own, import, modify, buy existing sets, or get custom made: Free Icon Font, SVG, PDF and PNG Generator The latest from Dr. Andy Cohen and Lee Strong: Filemaker Success Tips 374: Who ya workin for?, Organizing your layouts, Relationship Graph approaches Some Seth Godin to start your […]
Training and Infinite ROI Seth Godin on employee training: Consider an employee who is going to work 2000 hours for you this year. It’s not unusual for an organization to spend only 10 or 20 hours training this person–which means about 1% of their annual workload. How much training would it take for this person to […]
Didier: Don, It's Seth Godin not Grodin
Don Clark: Thanks for the catch, Didier! It's fixed.
This is broken! This video is funny and true. We all look at things and say “This is broken”. And we usually shrug it off, because there is nothing we can do about it. Watch this video and take this opportunity to look at your FileMaker solutions with a critical eye, and ask these questions: […]
Filemaker Success Tips : 370_FM_Success_Tips: Dr. Andy Cohen and Lee Strong’s FileMaker Podcast : Always Script It, How to Build your FM Biz The End of the Future is Premature – Seth Godin: Twenty years ago, when I was working on projects with AOL, we were sure that this was the next big thing […]
An important part of being a FileMaker developer is effective communication skills–without them your job is almost impossible to do well. Seth Godin offers an interesting point of view of the importance of vocabulary: The typical native speaker knows 20,000 words, and there’s your opportunity: If you know 40,000 words, if you learn five words […]
wkeja: Love this quote: "An optimist is an ill informed pessimist." No idea who said that.