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…et the grid to 64/8. We’ve found that using this type of grid makes our UI design attractive, not to mention easy and fast to implement.   Next, we want to start designing the layout but don’t want to start from scratch. We’re going to use the Apex Blue theme to keep things simple. If you read our blog post about designing a CRM in FileMaker, you might recall that we also used the Apex Blue theme for that project. But we modified it a bit to work…

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…particular, we like Balsamiq because of its simplicity, and it provides a design mode that makes the sketches look like sketches instead of finished products.  During the preliminary design stage, users and developers must keep an open mind and not immediately commit to a particular solution or idea. We want to keep the process fluid such that changes are easy to make without excessive investment in time or money. We’ve found that if something lo…

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…person assigned to that project.   For example, let’s say we are a graphic design firm, to keep this interesting. “Big Dog” dog food has hired us to create a web campaign for their new dog treat, “Big Snack.” We have assigned the logo creation task for the dog snack to our lead designer, Roger Smith.   Here’s what a basic entity relationship diagram (ERD) would look like. We’ve included some sample data to make it clear to see what each bucket wil…

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…find many tutorials and guidelines that review the benefits of a grid when designing UI and the specific benefits of an 8 pt grid. It’s also helpful to watch 5 Quick Ways to Use Material Design to Improve the UI/UX of your Solution, our presentation from AutoEnter. You can make these adjustments in the position tab of the Inspector, and it looks like this:  Next, we choose a theme. We usually build our own theme using Material Design guidelines, b…

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…like to keep as much functionality as possible within the applications we design, so we do it differently. For our Big Candle solution, we created a new table called CandleInventoryTemplate. We removed FileMaker’s standard default fields to keep the table clean and concise. So, we created four new global fields (“Season,” “Price,” Scent,” and “Year”) for the values we want to set for the new records. We spent some time making enough records in th…

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…he static desktop publishing model they’ve always used to a responsive web design model. This web-like responsiveness is accomplished using the new Grid Object. Placing objects, like fields and their respective labels, into a grid ensures that they stay in place regardless of how the window changes.  Speaking of fields, let’s look at how we modify their look and feel using some of the new Inspector options. Click the dripping paintbrush icon on th…

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…for this technique. Matt Stanford, a TSG developer, actually devised this gem. He’s a FileMaker tips and tricks master. He’s also the brains behind the Material Design blog post. Find more development tips, including how to move data from repeating fields….

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…mplex calculation but fortunately you can copy and paste it between files. DESIGNING THE CALENDAR LAYOUT I find designing the overall look and feel of the calendar layout to be the most challenging part. I’ve created enough calendars to have picked up some tricks to share with you. Select or create a theme for the calendar layout. I don’t recommend using the Classic theme. Style all objects. You can create new styles and save them to the theme or…

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