Michael Rocharde on saving your client time and money: Reminding your clients about the great things a custom solution brings to the table–time and money savings, increased productivity, etc.–is important in your day to day dealings. When soothing clients worries, it focus’ their attention on the benefits, not the costs. When selling, this helps close the […]
This is cool: It’s a simple slide presentation tool built in FileMaker by Osamu Noda, a Dentist and FileMaker developer in Japan, who does great work with WebViewers and Javascript. I first posted on his triggering a remote computer via a WebViewer back in 2014. By the way, there is a link to download the presentation […]
The Perform Script on Server (PSoS) script step is an extraordinarily powerful tool for speeding up processing in FileMaker, but it poses a challenge to go along with it’s power: Since the processes run on the server, the results are not always available to the client. Imagine a situation where the server is finding a set […]
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 […]
Mike Duncan explores FileMaker 14 WebDirect, and offers some great tips and trick in addition to discussing new features: New Launch Center More Concurrent Users A Better Toolbar Expanded Browser Support Support for passing parameters and for deep linking Custom home page options Redirects in HTML I particularly like the discussion of bypassing the Launch […]
The driving force behind Kevin Frank’s latest post is a request from a client to have two different images on a button: one regular and a different one on hover. Not hard at all, unless you need to update the button images on several different layouts on the fly. Frank, with the help of some […]
New blogger Joe Simpson shows how to make simple toggle buttons using FileMaker 14 button bars and other features: Recently I had a need for a simple toggle button. In the past I would have used object visibility (FMP13) or conditional formatting (FMP12 and earlier) to show or hide two or more buttons based on a […]
FileMaker 14 Platform and OS X El Capitan FileMaker supports El Capitan, but you’ll need to update to 14.0.3 And there are still some known bugs: Email attachments will be missing when Sending Mail through Menu or Script Drop-down calendar does not show when quitting full screen mode from Mission Control Windows act like floating window […]
Running behind recently, and not keeping up with all the great posts and media out there, so here are two episodes of Dr. Andy Cohen and Lee Strong’s FileMaker Success Tips. Enjoy! Thu, 10 September 2015 361_FM_Success_Tips Task bidding for FM proposals, Use the launch center to delete recents, When should you upgrade your FileMaker? Direct […]
Having the ability to find records with an address in a set radius could come in very handy at times. Nate Williams of DB Services shows us how to do this in FileMaker 14: Imagine a sales rep visiting a customer in an adjacent state. Since the rep is unfamiliar with the area, it would be great to […]
Going away for the weekend? Download Filemaker Success Tips 359 to your smart phone or computer and listen while you travel. Thu, 27 August 2015 359_FM_Success_Tips Removing Asterisk, Server OS requirements, Using Estimation System Direct download: 359_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 Category:podcasts — posted at: 5:30 PM Source: Filemaker Success Tips 359_FM_Success_Tips
Part one of an in-depth look at setting up an Amazon Web Server and installing FileMaker services by Duncan Baker of Sound Essentials: Learn to set up your own FileMaker Server using Amazon Web Services in this step-by-step tutorial from Sounds Essential… What’s involved in setting up FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services (AWS), one […]
The dangerous shortcut? Command-R, which runs a script if the Script Workspace is open. If not, it modifies the last Find. You’ll have to listen to Lee Strong and Dr. Andy Cohen learn the fix. Thu, 20 August 2015 358_FM_Success_Tips Fixing a dangerous shortcut, Upgrading to 14, First step for project from scratch Direct download: 358_FM_Success_Tips.mp3 […]
Dave Evans: Hello, This is intended for Mr Lee Strong. I have been an avid FM Success Tips podcast listener for a…