FM Starting Point - General Discussions

Hello all, We're currently testing with FM Starting Point 24.0x5 USS and having trouble locating the best place to modify the default window size setting(s). Which script(s) should we be modifying to increase the default window size?

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“FM Starting Point_3_6_2024_41608PM.fp7” could not be created on this disk. Use a different name, make more room on the disk, unlock it or use a different disk. how do I fix it? running a Carlton Consulting custom made FM solution with FM Pro 16.0.5.500 on my MacBook Pro macOS Ventura 13.5.2 w/ 1GB HD

I download new FMSP file and opened calendar then in the top right i changed the calendar to current day then all column and icon gone = white screen .Nothing help to get it back.

Has anyone seen this error. It just started popping up and don't know how to fix it. thanks!

Dear Folks, need to know if there is a way to make FMSP re-use sample data on the landing page, I selected the option to update charts, but there was no entries so I missed all the charts, how can I make read again the sample data Thanks

Hi All When I print my estimate on Starting point 603.aub I would like it to show the company name and estimate number as the file name to save PDF is this possible as it now only names it after the FM starting point file name would like to name it .....IE - GLOBALLINK EST... 001 from Filemaker Is this possible ?? Thank you

I feel silly asking, but I cannot find the way to export a script from one FMP file to import into another. Four scripts I have written need to be exported / saved / copied (choose your semantics) from a test Db and imported into a production Db. Please advise.

Hi, I need to send html email from FMSP. There's the option in the FMSP for the 360Works email. As I am considering two options, being 360Works email and Dacon's Mailit 8, I wanted to know whether the 360Works email is already integrated with FMSP 2020, or whether I need to add it using scripting? Which plugin allows for the easiest integration on a network? Thanks, Sam

Is there a simple way to have a pricing point for a product based on number of products sold? Something like: 1-10 - $100 11-15 - $90 16-20 - $80 etc. I know I can set up different products and then use the correct version, but I'd like to automate it to avoid errors. Thanks!

Tested the v7 calendar with FM 18 First successfully create a Task with date and start / end time. It displayed correctly on the calendar. When I performed a drag and drop, the task disappeared from the screen. Upon checking the TASK table, the record is there but all the Date and Time have become ? . If I edit this record and enter the proper date and time, then it appear again in the calendar.

Dear Users, can someone help me? When I Prepare an invoice in FM Starting point, and for different line items i use a different tax rate, the VAT amount in the sales tax field on the right disappears. But , magically spears again when i lower the amount of the lowest taxed item in the line item tab. Where is the sales tax calculated? The field "sales tax" in a number, not a calculation. Greatings from Belgium, Reindert

I'm not a Filemaker developer so I'm hoping someone can help me with an error message that keeps coming up. I'm am trying to test out the FM Books Connector Online integration with FMSP 7. I have FMSP connected to our companies Quickbooks Online sandbox account. When I do the PreFlight Check I get Success! in the Results / Info field. However when I click the circular arrows to run the "QB_UpdatePaymentAccounts" script I get "There was an error in trying to to use the CountEntities function for the Account entity type." error. I think it might be one of two things. We running FMSP 7 with FM 18 and 18 Server which I know can cause some parts of FMSP 7 to not work corr…

Ladies and Gentlemen I have a question and hope someone can help me I use FM Startingpoint and if I want to add items via my barcode scanner to my invoices. Then the field always jumps to the description and I have to click on the barcode bar again. Is there a solution for this? I use Data wedge as a communication tool with my PC on a Motorola MC70

In the invoice module there is a "Deposit" entry field under the "Detailed Total" tab. The deposit field doesn't list in the "Invoice payments" line items. Where can the list of all deposit payment be found ? I also want to create a pre tax sub total in the invoice module . How do I do this ? How is the "Order_Total_Price" field and the "Total_Amount_Due" field calculated? These fields are Number field ??

Hi When you go into the invoice tab and select print it generates a report for that invoice. I am trying to make it so that it displays then in date order. I can of course make it display in date order in the portal but that doesn't affect the report. which is a problem if I forget something on a certain date and want to add it in, it will display it at the end of the invoice lines. I tried adding in a sub summary part by Qdate worked but it will not display. I made it red to see if it displayed anything, but it will only display items in the body. I tried adding in art in the script but again it didn't seem to do anything. If a…

Hi, Whenever I start a new invoice and the customer is not in my "Contacts" I can create this contact from the "Invoice" module. The thing is that if I proceed with the invoice I don't see the contact's name and billing address on the invoice. Do I have to do a refresh and if so, how? Same with the "products" : how can I do a refresh. Help appreciated.

We are using the invoice in FM Starting point as a library system of loaning more than an actual invoice. The items get returned and I want to be able to have a way to say invoice items have been returned and it automatically updates the amount in the Products quantity. How do I do that?

How do I delete the sample data? Thanks, Thomas

Hello I am a very happy user of FM starting point and have used the program to increase my understanding and inspiration to develop it further for our use. However, I have had trouble sending mail and getting a message Error 130. Could you please give me a tip on how to handle it. Best regards Ola

To All, [ I first posted this on "my FM group" which got exactly zero attention or comments, which was upsetting to me. I'm posting it here. Maybe it will get some attention. ] Nobody loves FM more than me.. That would be impossible. My introduction to FM predates FM with File Books Pro. I’ve upgraded every crappy version since. Filemaker is my best friend, my best relationship, my only true love, and other schmaltzy stuff like that. But that’s just me. I also know, acknowledge, and celebrate that many people love FM just as much as I do, which is infinitely. They too have infinite love for FM and I respect and admire these people many of whom hang out …

Is there a guide to implementing the FullCalendar into an earlier version of FMST that has the old calendar style?

Hi, I am looking for a solution to help me add multiple line items from the "Add Line Items" popover on the estimates and invoices layout. What I would like to do is search for a subset of products in the popover, then add the line item without refreshing the popover each time an item is added. Currently, as I understand two scripts are running for this popover. (0930) Trigger | Refresh Search Estimates (Mouse & Touch) and (0930) Trigger | Refresh Search Estimates (Mouse & Touch) Could somebody please help me understand how I can adapt the scripts so that the search does not refresh. Very new to FM so any help much appreciat…

Hi There all Maybe I just don't understand it, but where do your place an order to the vendors in Fm Starting point?

Is there an easy way to do this?

I am running Filemaker Pro 16 and I use FMSP 4.6.6b1 Should I upgrade to Filemaker 17? And, is it easy to import all of my data (records) from FMSP 4.6.6b1 into FMSP 6? For the time being everything is working fine on FMSP 4.6.6b1. I also had some changes made for me on FMSP 4.6.6b1

I am working on FMSP 4.6 and I can't figure out how to send a mail from FMSP. I have all my mails going through "gmail". Working on Mac OSX. Any help?

I've been using FileMaker Pro for some time now, but some move advanced concepts are a bit foreign to me. I'm pulling apart the FMSP more for academic purposes at the moment, and I'm looking to start purchasing some training in the near future. One thing that is a bit confusing to me is the id_constant field that seems to appear all over the solution. I'm not certain what purpose it serves.

I would like to be able to map the activities in my FMP events file to the calendar offered by FileMaker Starting Point but am not sure how to do this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Just to keep everyone everyone up to date, we shipped updated training courses for the FileMaker 17 platform this past week. We also shipped an updated release of FMSP, version 6.0. We have forked FMSP 5 into 2 releases. There is an enhanced release which is available only to people who buy our annual training bundle, and a basic version, which is free to the public. The Enhanced version includes what we call "Side Nuggets" of functionality. Items that are fully functional and ready to be used, that live on the side of the layout until the user or developer drags them onto the active section of the layout. There are quite a few of these currently, but we are alway…

Hi, On the L370_ESTIMATES_Data_Entry layout on iPad I am having issues with the barcode scanning. When I touch the button it doesn't launch the camera app, it seems there may be some bug with the script 0983, does anybody know of a fix for this problem? Any help much appreciated. Regards, Jake

Hi, I am new to FMSP and any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to add the product category field from table T15_products into the portal in the estimates and invoice layouts. I am unable to figure out which field, from which table, I need to include here to have this show. Could somebody please help me identify the correct field for this use? Thank you.

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My clients pay me into one of two PayPal accounts and I want to track where each invoice is paid. So I went to the "status" field in the invoice layout and changed the existing "Paid" entry to one with a descriptor of the account and then I created a second "Paid" entry for the other account. When I went to List view, the two paid fields went from bold dark blue to just black, same as the "Sent" entry (FMP 3 attached image). Active stayed red, though. I poked around and found a place where I could manipulate "Sent" and the two "Paids," but it changed the formatting (added the lines you see in the image FMP) and also made "Sent" in blue bold font rather than black re…

Hello, I would like to use UUIDdecimal CF for the taskID rather than an auto-enter Serial Number. However I get Integer Notation like this: 2.25640703445567e+37, rather than a number like this: 22564070344556677882256407034455667788. I have toyed with other implementations of FullCalendar and have gotten it to work, but the related libraries were different versions and I can't recall how I solved the same problem then. How can I solve this? Example { "allDay" : false, "color" : "#FF0000", "end" : "2018-05-30T23:00:00**TIMEZONE**", "id" : 9, "start" : "2018-05-30T21:00:00**TIMEZONE**", "title" : "New Task" …

I really did search the forum... I can sort my contacts by last name, but when I want to print a contacts report, they print sorted by first name. It's probably something simple I overlooked...

Is it possible to add a chart of accounts to fm starting point? TIA

Hi Guys, Very recently downloaded FMSP and having fun customising it. I'm a rank amateur at this and normally enjoy solving the problems the customisation process throws up but there is one thing I can't figure out and would love a steer on... When making an estimate, I press the button "Add Line" and a popup appears with my products on it. However, the ones I inputted are connected with "Per Hour" rate but the default rccconsulting pre-inputted product (Angular Clamp) does not have this association. How can I lose the "per hour" association and have it just like the pre-inputted product? Thank you!

Hi, I have been running FM Starting Point for many years now and it has always performed very well. Just lately though, it has begun crashing quite frequently at intermittent times. Sometimes while I am using it, other times when it is simply open but in the background. Here is my system: FileMaker Pro 13.0v5 for Mac FM Starting Point 2,1v8 MacOS v10.13.2 My Starting Point solution was customized by RCC and I have further tweaked it slightly as I learn my way around FileMaker. I have now learned that FM pro 13 is not compatible with MoacOS 10. Therefore I will have to buy the latest FM program v16. I am of the understanding that if I…

Hi I have been trying to use the calendar on the FM starting point. And I have been playing around with the fields in the add task button to see what field will display what. I want to adjust it so it can add in one other things. but when I do to say the calendar layout for the month and go to edit it just shows c_diplay boxes but I am struggling to find out where the set is to tell it what to display and where. I know in this free solutions package everything seems to be slightly interlinked. The task option is linked to the calendar one, but I am stuggling to see where it is setup to display what fields in each date box? What I wanted to do is add say a…

Saving Millions with FileMaker - FMSP 5.1 New Calendar - March 2018 - FileMaker Training https://youtu.be/WYuFrKvELz4 The Basic version of FMSP has the new calendar. If you are looking for the PayPal integration, you need FMSP Enhanced. If you have our complete training bundle or have purchased our Pro 16 video training, you should get an email about this. If you have not received that email, then please email us at [email protected] To learn more about the FileMaker platform: http://bit.ly/2m9KRQV Most Recent Upload https://goo.gl/Dbn9fm Get up to speed with the FileMaker Pro 16 Video Training Course! Top Rated Course by FileMaker Ex…

Hello, I'm trying to make an integrated map on FileMaker, with multiple addresses tied to it. Showing pins of the locations and then pulling up information on the screen when you click on the pin. I want it to pull from the properties table I already have on my FileMaker database. I know there is a map on FMSP, but I can't seem to find any videos about how to make it. I want to know and learn how to create this on my own database I already have set up for FileMaker. If someone could help me out, or point me in the direction of some videos or information that would help, it would be much appreciated! Thanks!!

How do you mass delete in FM Starting point. I want to slim down my database by removing contacts by country. I can't seem to work it out. Any help would be great.

I am running the FM Starting Point solution 2.1v8 with FileMaker Pro 13.0v5. In the ToDo popup box there is a Due Date drop down box for a calendar date and also a Time selection box. When clicking on the Time box you have to manually enter a time with either am or pm. I am wondering if there is a way to have a wheel pop up when you click on the Time box. Then just be able to spin the wheel to the desired Time. Anybody know?

Hi in FMP 13 every time I create a new field I need to go to the layout mode and add it manually I think there is a way to do it automatically ... but I forgot how Would anyone be so kind to refresh my memory .... Thanks a lot

Folks we all know how useful the "unread" badge icon on your telephone can be, I'd like to try and implement something like this into my FM SP database. I've a filter on the invoice list view that allows me to see any orders that need invoicing to the customer. The search criteria is: OMIT = invoice posted = "1" FIND = Quantity Remaining = "0" I've tried to make a button on a button bar in the preferences layout using the same process as the tab formatting, namely: Let ( [ number = Count ( T14m_preferences_INVOICES||id_constant::ID_Invoice ) ; label = If ( number = 1 ; "Inv" ; "Invs" ) ; findmode = "Invs" ; size = 22 ; …

Hello All I have an excel spreadsheet with contact names, company names , email, phone etc. I imported the company details email & phone to the Accounts module and I imported the contact names & associated account name to the Contacts module How do I "relookup" the account names so that the contact is assigned to the Account in the accounts module? Regards Stephen Murphy Ireland

Hi everyone, I'm using Fm Starting Point 4.6.6.b for a personal project but I don't know if you can help me with some problem I have right now. In the Invoices module, there's a field for Contact info (Contact_Name) where you can search for a specific contact just clicking on the lens button and when you found the desire contact, the Biil To and Ship To tabs are updated with contact information. So I duplicate the Contact field, copy the buttons and rename it to Contact Ship and also I modify all the scripst for Contact (Contact_Name) update Bill To tab, and Contact Ship updates Ship To tab, and here is the problem; every time I choose a contact name in either o…

I'm really new at this so be gentle.. when creating an invoice or an estimate, and I select an account or contact under Basic Info, the Bill To and Ship To address boxes are auto-populated except for Address 2 and Country. Where would I change this so that it does populate those boxes? These same two boxes are not included on printed (or emailed) invoices or estimates. What would I need to change so that these two boxes are included on as part of the address on printed invoices or estimates?

So...part of RCC's "Extended Family" is Bill Kapeles. Bill has multiple hats... and is working on getting his Paramedic License... He went to that Las Vegas Shooting and was on an Ambulance...as a First Responder. I have no details... except he was up all night. Glad some of the "good guys" could get in there to help. I am proud of you Bill!!! - RC --------------------------------------------- From Bill's Wife: For everyone checking on me- thank you- I am safe. > I was freaked out this morning because Bill was supposed to be home from his EMS shift last night and wasn’t. I was in bed at 9p last night and had no clue what was going on...when…

How do you add an additional insert field button on the email template in the contacts module?

Hi there, Would really like to be able to automatically add Invoice and Estimate information into the Calendar view when a new Invoice or Estimate is created, is this possible? Struggling to find out how the Tasks get added and thought it would be a matter of adjusting a script or calculation. Any ideas? Thanks

Was checking out the map function-from the Contacts layout. It doesn't show the marker on the map. The address is correct, the lat and lng are populated, and the customer is marked as active. It showed markers the first time I opened it, but not now. I even went back to my zip file, unzipped, and opened a fresh version-no luck. Any thoughts/help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Steve

When a timesheet is created how do you invoice it to relate the invoice number to the timesheet? In the timesheets module there is a note on the Help section bottom left under "General Notes"..... "If you see a √ on a line item, that line iten has been invoiced" How do you get the √ to appear

I am not quite convinced but I am considering switching from MAC to PC. The question however is : how to get my FMSP data from my MAC to aPC ? I thought it over and my logic saus : 1. Export MAC FMSP into an excel sheet 2. Download new FMST on the PC 3. Adjust the changes I made in "fields" on the PC so the "fields" do correspond 4. Import the excel sheet from MAC on PC and then in FMSP on PC Is this the workaround or is there a better one ?

Hi to everyone, I had left FMPro in the dust for many years until I discovered FM Starting Point. This free solution made me fall in love again with databases. So, I big shout out to the RCC developers. My question: Do I need to create a "Locations" table to be able to set up multiple branches of a company? This solution would run on he Cloud or a server. I could move the "My Company" information in the "Preferences" table to the "Locations" table so each branch could use its own set of address. Is this the right approach? Thank you.

What I would like to do is link contacts to contacts with a specific role attached. The example would be a family signing up for services, I'd like to say enter the mom, dad, and kids and then link the mom & dad to the kids so when you look up the dad/mom you'd see they are connected to the kids. Additionally, I'd like to add the role, so in the case it would be 'mother' or 'father' of the connected contact. When I tried to take the 'add connected contact' from another tab (say account table) it says it isn't related. But the question is, since I am linking a contacts table to itself, how would this work? Thanks!

Hello, I have some questions that baffel me a little being a novice at Filemaker as well. In FM Starting Point in the Startup script there is a reference made on Line 29 to populated field T17_STAFF::Filemaker_account with the logged in account name. Thereafter there is find performed. But when creating a new staff member by selecting New record you can populate first name last name and all other details. Question: How does FIlemaker_Account field get populated and with what info to link back to Get(Accountname) detail? Calendar Question: When Logged in as a staff member and the g_user field is changed to another user followed b…

Just as a side note to everyone, we shipped updated training courses for the FileMaker 16 platform this past week. We also shipped updated release of FMSP... 5.0. We have forked FMSP 5 into 2 releases. There is an enhanced release.... available only to people who buy our annual training bundle. We are in the process of adding new "Side Nuggets" of functionality... that live on the side of the layout... until the user or developer drags them onto the active section of the layout. There are handful of these now... but more will be added. We are going to thread in some AWS S3... upload support...this summer, and Dropbox integration via the new LiveCode plugin e…

Been awhile... i am still using version 12 Where can i post question pertaining to compilng my project to another drive folder.using Utilities Question... i used to have option to store project to a external hard drive I see the drive using the image logo option...on left lets me select a drive to find a file, Whereas where to store project does not let me select drive??????? any ideas it used to

I'm using FM Starting Point and duplicated the Invoice "module" (layout with tables, tos, etc.) to create an Orders "module". I dutifully went through and changed the fields, relationships, scripts, etc. etc. However, when I click Add Item and the Popover Button appears, when I select a product it is not being added to the order. So I ran the debugger while going through the process and the debugger shows that the old OnObjectExit script (from the Invoice "module") is being called for. I double checked all the scripts and TOs and everything and all do indicate they are the correct new ones I created (by duplicating the Invoice ones) for the orders. So why is it still…

Our calendar displays all our To Dos, is it possible to filter the calendar to the items assigned to a particular person? I figured out a way .. I have a script changing the show flag when the calendar is activated so the user only sees the items they created.

Hi All, So FMSP... has been recently updated to version 4.6.8...and is now available at www.fmstartingpoint.com. There were a few User Interface bugs, and coding errors that have been corrected. In Addition, we have added FM Cloud Support to our PSOS scripts, to allow you to take full advantage of all of FileMaker's latest offerings.. Super cool!!! As always... this is a free product. There is a BUG submitter tool... built in... if you visit the preferences screen so that you may submit any bugs you find, directly to us. If you are interested in our Design team assisting you with your database... to make it look, and function, just as well as FMSP... th…

This is one of the hardest thing I been trying to acomplish, I want to transform the contacts module into a Donors module for our blood bank. I have transform most of the fields already to match the donor information we will need. However I want each donor to show in a portal all the units or (products) associated to that donor. Example: 1 Donor can donate blood every 56 days 1 unit (which has a serial number associated to it) I want each donor to show all the products or units associated to him. Im sure this might be something really simple to some of you so any help will me much appreciated Thank you in advance for all the help

Hello once again I been trying to make a calculation for the conversion of weight into ml's. Normally I do this by dividing the the weight by 1.026 and the results is the amount in ml's ( 1.026 is the density of blood, plasma, serum ) I have a field for weight and another for volume I want to input the weight and have the result show in volume after being calculated. Thank you in advance for the help and advice

Often we have to revise estimates for a customer, and they may come back and order against an estimate that is not the most recent. I am trying to find the best way to tie all the estimates together with the same Estimate or Job #, and increment a revision #. So far I've created a Job# field, and a Revision number field, but having trouble getting the revision number and job number to increment correctly when I have a new estimate vs a revision. Any suggestions?

Recently i change my office PC to a Mac Laptop since is much more accessible for me. After getting Filemaker 12 for it, I try running the copy I have of FM starting point and this what happens. I will appreciated any help I can get to resolve this Thank you

Hi Guys, So, I've downloaded Starting Point and also bought the video. The reason I did both was so that I could look 'under the hood' at Starting Point and understand whats going on. As I've started to investigate, I have noticed references to T01 or T14, which appear to be Tables not in view. Can anyone confirm that my assumption is correct - or am I doing something wrong? Thanks Neil

How to select the invoice date in FMSP on Filemaker Go ? And where can I see Table View in "Invoices" on Filemaker Go ?

I'm working with a client adapting FMSP version 4 (they use FM 13). The map always shows the same area of California no matter what the address is. The same thing happens with the latest version of FMSP and FM 15. When I run through the debugger to get the actual coordinates and plug them into Google on the web the are plotted correctly. Is there something I'm missing in the setup for this to work properly? Thanks

I would like to start by thanking the developers for such a wonderful solution. Our organization has been successfully adapted FM starting point to our current needs. However one of the biggest challenges we have right now comes from having the invoices and Estimates List more than 18 items when they print. I have read in another discussion that was solution for it however I wasn't able to truly grasp the meaning of it. Any help I could get to solve this would be truly appreciated. Thank you.

Hi guys!, Thanks for the last response regarding entering of new invoices. Somehow I am unable to reply to that thread. Anyway, I would like to apologise for bothering you guys again. BTW, I had bought the 40 hours training video and its amazing. I encourage all those who are new to starting point to get this training videos. Thanks Richard. I do a lot of field work and data capturing on the field in an important aspect. I am wondering can anyone advise me how do I capture images onto the starting point photo container on my contact list? What are the third party application I need to get this function done? I really appreciate your input. Lesster

Hi fellow FMSPers, Can anyone help me on this? I changed the theme of the original template to wave and everything works fine except for the note pane in the contact segment. I can only add but not able to click on individual note to read them. I would greatly appreciate if anyone can help me with this issue. Thanks in advance. Lesster

I am a distributor. My customers can also be distributors. They can also be large companies with many locations and hundreds of contacts, like Pepsi. Is it wiser to keep the "Accounts" table as is with only one "bill to" and "ship to" address and really treat accounts as locations, or create a separate table for "ship to" addresses and associate them with an account relationally? Has anyone else with this sort of customer relationship found a succesful solution. I simply don't see the efficiency of having to store the same contact and billing information for 50 different locations for all my larger accounts. For instance accounting personnel, regional and district ma…

I search but can't seem to find the answer to this one. Here are some of the searches I tried which may help others find this message. Can I change the FM Starting Point file name to something else? Rename FM Starting Point Thanks!

Dear fellow forum members, Hope this message find all well. I am very new to filemaker starting point and I would greatly appreciate if anyone can assist on this matter. I am using 4.6. I tried entering a new invoice but somehow when I key in the product, it doesn't reflect the product ID automatically. Can anyone help me on this? Much appreciated. Lesster

I am new to filemaker and am using Filemaker 14 with starting point. I am connected remotely to my network. I am in the account section of starting point and for some reason when I click the create new record button it is randomly adding data from another record in the database and linking a contact to it. Specifially in the Tabs at the bottom "contacts" "projects" Does anyone know how to change this and make the new record completely blank?

I'm relatively new to FMP but I wouldn't consider myself a beginner. First, FMSP is a wonderful learning tool and I find myself emulating much of what you have done here so....job well done and thank you. I've been struggling lately trying to emulate the behavior of the comments text field. Lets take Accounts ---> comments. On the accounts layout the first tab is "Comm and Notes". You have a portal based on the foreign key id_accounts in the notes table. This all works well and I can recreate this just fine. To the right of that you have the text field from a different TO...one that has a relationship in the accounts table based on id_current_note to the foreign key id…

Is there a way to sync the calendar found in FM Starting Point to the Apple calendar app? I would like to be able to type events into one of the calendars and have it appear in the other. I am very new to FileMaker so have absolutely no experience with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hello there, I've just started using FM Starting Point as a guide for my own app, and so far I have learned a few very important things from it, so thank you for that right away. Now, one of the things I was trying to do is to have the First and Last names to appear together in a Text only field. Let me try to be more specific. In the Contacts tab of FM Starting Point, there are the First and Last Name fields to the left, and to the right, next to the photo, the names appear ordered in a separate Text field. How can I do that? I hope I was able to explain what I mean. Thank you so much. All the best, Rui

I am unable to find one specific record using Quick Find, but can find this same record using a standard field search. I can find all other records that I search for using Quick Find. Any suggestion for a fix please?

I am really new to Filemaker and and have been trying to figure it out. We recently have tried using an MRP from Eagle Business System that just isn't doing what is needed. Is it possible to get Filemaker Pro 14 to act as a MRP (Manufacturing Resources Planning) and mrp (Material Requirements Planning) for our trailer manufacturing company? It seems that Starting Point has some features ready to go, but I know it is just a "starting point". I just don't know enough to manipulate it. Would someone know of anyone who can make FMP do what we need it do? 1. Vendor Database 2. Dealer Database 3. Purchasing 4. Build Tickets for Jobs 5. Track Build thro…

When I select Quick Access, not of my active projects appear, nor do any of the other tabs work (New Contact, Active Estimates, Active Invoices). Can anyone help please?

As I am getting interested in a chromebook, I was wondering if you can run FM Startibgpopint on a chromebook. I already found some answer that you can't run locally Filemaker on a Chromebook. So what would be a solution. I like the idea of having FMSP in the cloud. But as far as I understand the only way is using a Filemaker Server which for me as a small ( 2 men) company would be too much. I don't have the knowledge nor the time to invest in an own server and prefer rather using Gdrive or similar. Any suggestions anybody ?

Hi There, I am currently using the StartingPoint Template for my business. My current problem that needs solving is I created a few new fields and portals on the estimates module in which I must manually put a customer Reference Number, portal created for showing the Cubic meterage, and a calculation field which calculates the total cartons needed as a result of the Quantity input and the Master carton qty. The problem enters when I "move to invoice" it does not relay all the information from Estimates to the invoice module. I am struggling for the answer, having tried creating portals (perhaps I am not setting up the portal correctly?) Any g…

Hello, Can we run more company's on the same starter solutions database.How do we navigate or switch to another company on the same database templates.

This has a bunch of fixes. If you have 4.6.5... the new "b" version gets you an inventory management fix...for products being committed to inventory. Every time we launch a major release... we end up stomping out tons of bugs... which people find... after the fact. You would never know that we had a pretty health beta... with over 200 bug documented and fixed. LOL - RC

Newbie to FM. Worked with 4.5 before and I changed and added a lot of fields. How to update to 4.6 and keeping alle the records and lay-outs?

hi josenoulezdemiguel, Thank you for being a FM Starting Point fan. I would be glad to help you. In the Invoices module, click the "Commit from Inventory" button. This will apply product changes to your inventory. If by any reason you wanted take out a item from the invoices, click the "Revert Inventory", make your changes, and then click the "Commit from Inventory" button. In the Products module, the Sold, Sales, and Profit have not been changed. To update these totals, click the refresh icon at the top right. This will update your Products page and display all the current information about your product.

Hello , Here I just download the FM starting point 4.6. Though it is much hardworked free templates starter solutions. I like it very much and most of the requirements fulfil by this solutions. I just want to know that while sending Quotations through Email by Estimates than how it can pick the product descriptions details and product image and video (saved in container field) which I have saved in product details of that particular product and can send along with quotation line item layout format .As well as if there are more than line items in layout format in that conditions how it can pick the each product descriptions and product image or video for particular…

After installing Filemaker Pro 13 from a download provided by Filemaker or my Physical DVD Disk with Key, upon opening software, I get a message that says my Trial Period is over. I have a Key that I enter during the install. I have spent a couple of hours with Filemaker trying to resolve this situation and now they are saying that I need to do a fresh install of all software on my Mac because it may be interfering with another application. Anyone else experienced this? Jeff W Waldrop

I'm sure there's a easy answer... I downloaded the video course and FMSP and I'm not able to do anything to FMSP because the it says the action is not allowed because the file is not modifiable. Is there something I'm not doing?

Hi All, So FMSP 4.6... has been radically updated...and is now available at www.fmstartingpoint.com. The User Interface is inspired by current Apple design esthetics. This App... looks a lot of an Apple Branded database. Super cool!!! As always... this is a free product. There is a BUG submitter tool... built in... if you visit the preferences screen. Structurally, this is very similar to FMSP 4.5... but looks a lot different. We have many hundred of hours of work... into retooling this database. If you are interested in our Design team assisting you with your database... to make it look at as good as FMSP... then email us at support@…

Does anyone have an idea when the next version of FMStartingPoint (after 4.5) is going to be released? I want to use it as a starting point for a new project, but heard a new version is "about" to be released. I would rather start with that version. I have used the 4.5 version on other projects so am excited to do a new project with 5.0. Thanks

Folks, I just discovered this wonderful site this morning. I did spend some time (probably not enough) looking through the posted questions & solutions but failed to find an answer to a small but annoying problem. I am the Volunteer Coordinator for our local police department. When I came onboard 6 years ago they were still in the 20th century - data was mostly all on paper with regard to keeping track of volunteer hours. I was introduced to Filemaker back in the ver 4 days (mid 90s) so, although not a stranger to the app, neither am I anything more than a novice when looking at the big picture. So years back I created us a DB to keep track of volunteer hour…

Hi all, This one has me really confused and I'm going round and round in circles trying to figure it out. It's been a while since I posted so hope that I manage to explain myself properly... FM13 on a Mac with the data on FM Server. Clients::__kpClientID = Customers::_kfClientID Customers::ID = TickSheet::ID I have a Sub-Summary report layout based and sorted on Clients::ClientName Most of the fields on this report layout are from the Customers table but there are a couple from an events table called TickSheet. So far, I can group the report by Client which lists all the events per Customer. I have two Su…

Hello everyone... newbie alert here I'm afraid I'm highly impressed with this FM Starting Point software, but I have been on a search to find invoicing software to this: to be able to track a running tally of amount owed vs amount paid for each account/client. This is so important for me because most my clients do not refer to a specific invoice when they pay me, and will not change their accounting system, so it is next to impossible to know which specific invoices have been paid, so keeping a running total is the clearest way of knowing how much they still owe... I hope there is a way to do that, but couldn't find it, and don't have an idea how to add that f…

There is another thread on this topic from September 2015 . Thought I would give the problem/solution its on thread to easily help others. this had me baffled and scratching my head as everything seemed fine in the script.... then Don Bahash wrote: "OMG ... I just got it to work! So, for me, the solution was to remove all the references to field "id_constant" in the SMTP dialog box in script "0783 Send Email by Parameter" So following Don's solution ... I hard coded each of the smtp fields that referenced the prefs table and it solved the problem. I then went back in and undid each change one at a time and tested. I saved the password field for last …

Using FMSP's SMTP mail feature isn't working--the mail server rejects the attempt (connection refused by SMTP server). This is true with FMSP and with "SMTP Send Mail Interrogation". HOWEVER, when I use "SMTP Send Mail", the test email is received, as it is when I use "Send Mail" from FM's menu. I am using identical settings in all cases. I have tried it with two different accounts I administer with the same mail server provider (MacHighway). Does this scenario suggest what is happening here? Is there a way to analyze in more detail why the server has refused the connection? I am actually using Donations 2.1, where it also fails to work.

Hello I require some advice please. Regarding the attached file, I need to find the mileage between a start and end postcode. It seems to be showing the correct Google Page. However, I’m not sure about the syntax for getting the mileage figure into the calculation field ‘Distance’. Any help would be greatly appreciated please. Calculate Distance.fmp12