Another in the FTS:Basics series from UKFileMaker. These videos are great for those learning the basics. And there’s always something for the experienced developer, as well. Published on Jun 5, 2015 Join us for the fifth in a series of six webinars designed to complement your learning via FTS:Basics, the official self-paced training curriculum from […]
Soliant offers high level integration with SalesForce, a heavyweight in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) arena. They’ve just combined javascript and FileMaker to connect directly to the SalesForce API: The team here at Soliant was hoping that the improved “insert from URL” script step would prove to be able to communicate with Salesforce – Alas, the lack […]
Yet another web based tool for FileMaker from Tim Dietrich (when does he sleep?). This one is a basic drawing tool inside a web viewer in FileMaker, and the tools to draw and type. It is easily integrated into your solution, and adds a new layer of functionality for those wanting to draw freehand, add […]
Tim Dietrich released an open source signature capture solution that captures signatures via a web viewer, making it possible to grab signatures on a desktop client as well as FileMaker Go: This morning I released FMEasySignature, an open source solution for capturing signatures in FileMaker databases. It is a technique for capturing signatures and optionally storing […]
I DOWNLOADED THE DEMO and played with it a bit–pretty impressive performance. It’s in beta now, and you can sign for the beta program at the link: The next version of SeedCode Calendar moves the calendar’s complexity out of layouts and into the WebViewer, creating a calendar that’s faster, and much easier to paste into your files. This also […]
I DON’T NORMALLY post videos that do not have audio (even some music helps). This time is an exception. I don’t know how to pronounce the authors name (here it is, help is appreciated: 野田修) or anything about him. Other than what he shows in this video is pretty cool. And that he found a way to […]
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 […]
HERE’s SOMETHING I’ll bet you didn’t know (I didn’t). It seems Web Viewers cover all objects on a layout, but those objects are clickable if layered on top of the Web Viewer. For example, a popover placed on top of a Web Viewer does not show on the screen, but can be activated with […]
WHAT IS THE FMP URL–AND WHAT CAN YOU REALLY DO WITH IT? How about talk to your FileMaker database directly from a web viewer? Without the need for a web server to host the files and without the need for a server. The big changes with 13.0V2: Call scripts–with parameters–from a web viewer and return results […]
GET YOUR THINKING CAP ON before reading this Jason Young’s latest. Javascript is a robust scripting language with thousands of already written free routines–think of them as custom functions, if you’re having trouble wrapping your head around the concept. Using the fmp: protocol now available in FileMaker 13v2, developers can harness the power of these […]
MORE ON THE FILEMAKER V13.0v2 FMP URL scheme: FileMaker released version 13.0v2 on April 3, 2014. Its primary new feature was an improvement to their “FMP” URL Scheme. To understand what this is and why this is such a big deal, first a discussion on FMP URLs. FMP URLs The most important aspect of being […]
If you a FileMaker developer and aren’t studying html/css/js, you’re falling behind. iSolutions and Chris Ippolite shortens the learning curve… Published on Oct 5, 2013 In this demo we show an example of using JavaScript to allow us to control the video playing in a web viewer and to execute certain FileMaker script depending on whether […]
Business Minute 20: Delivery and Distribution Part 2 - FileMaker Pro Gurus: [...] Basics of using HTML, CSS, and Javascript with FileMaker [...]
How to: Add Interactive D3 Charts to FileMaker: […] charts into FileMaker, starting with the source code from the D3 library. Similar to what others in the FileMaker…
Dialing Phone Numbers using SkypeOut from FileMaker Pro SEPTEMBER 3, 2013 BY DOUGLAS ALDER 0 COMMENTS 1 Votes A while back, I found a technique to launch Skype and using the SkypeOut URI scheme, dial a number in Skype. I tested the ability recently and was surprised to see that the technique seems to be broken. […]
FileMaker and HTML5 -pt 3 "Making Your Code Dynamic" – YouTube.
Darren: Absolutely awesome Tim! Thanks for sharing, you need a donate button!!