One of the most vexing–and potentially time consuming–problems for FileMaker developers is building navigation menu bars for complex solutions. Each navigation menu was usually context sensitive and therefore hard to copy and paste between different layouts. A lot of work went into making and testing the changes. Over the years, there have been several very […]
THERE HAVE BEEN lots of articles bemoaning WebDirect’s lack of support for printing. One of the options tossed about is using a robot FileMaker client–a standalone computer running FileMaker dedicated to processing print jobs for all users. Digital Fusion Weetbicks tried this approach, adding a twist that is simple and effective: Display the PDF in a container field, allowing […]
JAMES CURRIE of Weetbicks shows off a neat little trick to add rows to a FileMaker portal using the FileMaker 13 field to conditionally hide fields. Hiding the contents of the last row We can now specify a simple calculation to hide the contents of the last row. We select all the objects that we […]
DANIEL WOOD OF WEETBICKS has extended the work he did with sliding drawers to popovers: In our last article, we introduced a generic technique that could be used to replicate a mouse-over effect. This used a combination of a custom function, script, plugin and tooltips to allow the user to expand and collapse a sliding […]
A VERY COOL example of outside the box thinking from Daniel Wood of Digital Fusion: The slide control is an exciting new layout tool introduced in FileMaker 13. Because of it’s primary function of sliding via a swipe, it is built with FileMaker Go in mind. However it is quickly finding it’s place in FileMaker Pro with […]