SAVE MONEY by renewing your FileMaker licenses before FileMaker Increases Renewal Rates after June 27th, 2014. Quick Facts: -There is no penalty for renewing early. -New licenses purchased with renewals are offered at a lower rate until June 27,2014. -Maintenance program customers have the option to renew for two years for additional savings. -FileMaker will no longer […]
READ ABOUT Best Practices on deploying FileMaker WebDirect by Michael Westendorf. Tip: Each time you change the appearance of any of your objects without saving those changes to the theme, you are creating a local style. Local styles add to the overhead required to render your layout, putting more workload on the server and client. Because of […]
FILEMAKER DIDN’T SHARE all of the improvements in FileMaker 13. Emory Brown found them for us. FileMaker 13 introduced many new features, including a number of very useful enhancements to the relationship graph, none of which are included in the help file or release notes. This is rather surprising, as several of these improvements to […]
Open Directory is Apple’s alternative to Active Directory – a method of authenticating users (Mac and Windows) and setting permissions for users and groups on a network (LAN and WAN). Jason Scharf”s tutorial will ease the way to using it for authentication with FileMaker Server. FileMaker Server can be set up to authenticate against Active […]
Having FileMaker Naming Conventions and Standards is especially important when working in a team environment. You will find applications easier to maintain and developer friendly. The solution will be self documented by the meta data of your development standard. The recommendations below are based on our naming conventions and standards from our years of experience […]