FileMaker and Amazon Web Services Mike Duncan and Bill Heizer of Soliant Consulting presented at DevCon 2017 on FileMaker and Amazon Web Services (AWS). First, kudos to both for tackling a large and complex topic in less than an hour. By necessity, they had to take a high level view, meaning it’s not really a […]
Executing Design It’s time for FileMaker’s take on UX design, brought to you by Chih Hsiao, Senior UX Designer at FileMaker: How do you incorporate design into your day-to‐day development activities? Design is not an afterthought but an ongoing practice of planning, testing, and validating your ideas. In this session, we look at examples that […]
Shawn Krueger at Cimbura.com answers the question many of our clients have: Should I upgrade to FileMaker 15 Now? Michael Rocharde does the thinking for you on taking reservations: More Date Magic In this one, we’re going to take it a stage further and work with a date range. For our example, we are using a property […]
Soliant Computing (and Albuquerque’s Makah Encarnacao) just finished up a pro bono FileMaker project in Swaziland, and it’s a great feel good story for all: Way to go, Makah! Productive Computing’s new tutorial on pushing invoices and pulling balances to Quickbooks is worth the read if you need to do this for a client: Productive Computing, […]
Pulling data from repeating fields FileMaker is always a challenge. I’ve used virtual lists to do so with success, looping scripts, and now there is another way: Anders Monsens shows you how to use drag and drop plus Insert from Url on a file to split repeating fields. In a FileMaker solution, repeating fields as data […]
Speedy Data Entry Many industries (medical, insurance, rentals, to name a few) need speedy data entry, but not at the expense of accuracy and detail. As a result, database programmers have experimented with different “word or phrase” pickers to speed the process. A common form of this is to build a series of often used words […]
FileMaker Server on Amazon Web Services I recently set up a Simple Email Service (SES) account to use with 360Works Cloudmail, and it is truly a challenging learning experience that is not for the faint of heart. But it is much easier than it was a 18 months ago when I first tried it. The learning curve is […]
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 […]
In keeping with my theme of the power of integrating FileMaker with the web, Jeremy Brown shares imaginative ways to use Web Viewer Magic to improve the client user experience. One great example is the use of javascript charts: I’ve been exploring this type of charting with the help of Robert Schaub, and we are both impressed with […]
Macah Encarnacao of Soliant Computing wrote a great little demo file for building folders on either a Mac or PC: It is very common to generate reoccurring reports in FileMaker that get saved to the user’s computer. Perhaps you would like to organize these reports by day or type. OS level folders and subfolders are a […]
Scott Love has a well written article on the FileMaker Platform in App Developer Magazine: As our world has increasingly adopted mobile technologies, developers have struggled with ways to meet the often urgent demands of business users. When iPhone and its iOS were introduced in January 2007, astute software developers certainly took note – but […]
Mislav Kov has an informative post on generating sample data for different tables using custom functions, and he went the extra mile with a demo file and a video to help you out. Kov started with a Modular FileMaker solution and made it better: There’s also a custom function in there that selects a random value from a […]
Mislav Kov, of Soliant Computing, put together a very detailed post on FileMaker 14 Script Triggers, and included a bonus: a journey back to the first script triggers in FileMaker 7: FileMaker 7 and earlier Total number of triggers: 2 (OnFileOpen and OnFileClose) These were renamed to OnFirstWindowOpen and OnFirstWindowClose in FileMaker 12 Just two script […]
Wim Decorte of Soliant answers a common question found on forums: “How can I exclude my externally stored container content from a backup run?”… If the container data is fairly static and you can exclude it from the backup then you could save roughly 100GB on each backup run and not fill up the hard […]