Some outside the box thinking on button bar icons by Gary Salem at Philly FileMaker (and there’s a downloadable file at the link): While we were going through user acceptance testing, one person said, “Boy it would be nice to have a shopping cart icon on the review button.” I agreed with him. However, to […]
Creating Dynamic Tab Panels Have you ever needed to hide Tab Panels from some users? Jerry Salem of ITSolutions shows an ingenious way to create tab panels using sliders, using conditional hiding to show/hide button bar segments as needed: Luckily things have improved a bit in FileMaker 14. With a combination of the slider panel and the button […]
Auditing Data Changes We’ve all seen it before: Someone (and we don’t know who) makes a change to a record and there is no audit trail to follow. The damage is done and the customer gone, and there is no way to figure out how the mistake was made and how to prevent it in […]
Upgrading to FileMaker Go 14 is not quite as easy as you might think. Especially if you want to keep earlier versions (for demo to clients, or due to limitation of a particular system for compatibility). At any rate, it’s easy if you don’t have any existing files to take from FileMaker Go 13 or […]
Spring Cleaning Jerry Salem, IT Solutions Consulting. Spring is when a man’s fancy turns to…Cleanup. At least once a year, I like to run a Database Design Report on each database I am working on and look for Scripts, Layouts, and Fields that aren’t being used. This step by step guide was presented at the […]
Good advice on using the Database Design Report by Jerry Salem Published on Aug 22, 2013 Now is a great time to assess your database. Is it clean? Do you have layouts that no one is using anymore? Are you scared to open the relationship graph because it is so confusing? There are probably plenty of […]
Business Minute 19 - Delivery and Distribution Part 1 - FileMaker Pro Gurus: [...] Housecleaning and Your Database – Clean It Up! [...]