If you’ve been developing in FileMaker for any length of time, you’ve probably visited FileMakerHacks.com. Kevin Frank’s website delves into very creative hacks to make the impossible happen. Then works to find faster alternatives to the same problem, often reaching out to the FileMaker community for solutions. Recent work has focused on finding duplicate records […]
Ralph Learmont gets top billing from Kevin Frank for his script that quickly de-dupes a found set and returns the remains of the found set when finished. And the best part: The script is completely portable. The only caveat is you must select the field you want used to de-dupe the set. The script […]
OMG thinking…also known as Outside the Box thinking… also know as “Aha” thinking… Kevin Frank has a great post (its the third in the series) on anti-deduping (retain duplicates and omit unique entries from within an existing found set, as opposed to starting from all records). Why would you want to do that? This is […]