I work with Hamburger Menus all the time on the web side of my business, mostly on mobile devices. Most responsive website themes in WordPress incorporate the Hamburger Menu to replace the standard menu when the website shrinks down to a small window. Mike Duncan, of Soliant Computing, shows how to build a Hamburger Menu in […]
I’ll admit, pushing parameters to FileMaker WebDirect sessions has not been high on my priority list. Actually, it hasn’t made the list at all, so far. Thankfully, guys like Mike Duncan, Mike Beargie, and Steve Senft-Herrera are on the case. FileMaker removed the ability to pass parameters to WebDirect in the 13.0v2 update, and these enterprising […]
MIKE DUNCAN of Soliant offers interesting comparisons of intuitive user interfaces to magical tricks. And he’s got a point: a great user interface will seem like magic to the end user. Things that were error prone and difficult before seem to just work now. While magic deals in deception, user interface deals in human perception: […]
TIRED OF FIGHTING with container fields? FileMaker container fields are great, but the limitations are sometimes frustrating, especially when it comes to displaying their contents in a web viewer. Mike Duncan of Soliant Consulting breaks it down for you: FileMaker 13 introduces a couple new functions, Base64Decode and Base64Encode. Base64 is a commonly used method […]
MIKE DUNCAN guides us through a detailed look at the new Field Picker feature in FileMaker 13: The Field Picker is a floating palette, with a drop down menu at the top to select the Table you are working from, and a list of fields from the selected table occurrence. While the Field Picker is […]
VERY COOL use of FileMaker 13’s Style function from Mike Duncan of Soliant to make a FileMaker designer’s life a bit more simple and to reduce the complexity of changing icons throughout a solution: With the introduction of Styles and Themes in FileMaker 13, there is now another option to consider. You are now able to […]
ANOTHER EXAMPLE of why the upgrade of the FMP URL protocol is so powerful: FileMaker Inc. has released an update for FileMaker Pro 13 (see the release notes here). Among the list of improvements to FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced is the extended functionality of the FMP URL protocol to include support for calling a […]
GOOD ADVICE on setting paths to import files from Mike Duncan: Here is a tip to have your cake and eat it too. Just for example, let’s say we are importing a comma separated value file. Create a copy (perhaps populate with sample data) of the file you want to import and name it something […]
A PEEK UNDER THE THEMES HOOD: It is true that FileMaker handles some themes and styles in CSS. So yes, there is really CSS that is used. You don’t have to worry about learning CSS, because the interface for managing everything is part of the updated inspector (Appearance pane) that gives unprecedented access to all […]
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