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GoDraw3 is a FileMaker drawing tool for users. For FileMaker developers, however, it is full of customization. A developer can do with it what she wants.
The post GoDraw3: Hack the Heck Out of It appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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Free webinar introducing Karbon our free application framework for building ambitious custom business applications. If you are interested in using the FileMaker Workplace Innovation Platform at a high level you'll probably want to see what we have cooked up.
The post Karbon Webinar – Getting Started appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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Author’s note: Inevitable comparisons will be drawn between the new While function and the venerable CustomList custom function, which I wrote about at length several years ago. Preliminary testing indicates that CustomList is faster under certain circumstances and While is faster under others. In my opinion, both of them belong in your developer tool kit. […]
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Today I'm happy to announce the release of Elemental for FileMaker. This is a free fully unlocked solution containing some cool user interface and design stuff that I hope you find useful and can incorporate into your own solutions.
You can grab a copy now at https://www.elemental-fm.com
In Elementals first version you'll find the following:
Avatars
Over 20 API integrations with avatar generators. These are uniquely generated based on a name y
The FileMaker Script Debugger is powerful. Its features are often overlooked. In this post we examine the buttons that control stepping through a script.
The post Like a Boss: Using the Script Debugger to its Full Potential appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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FileMaker does most of its processing client side. That means when a client wants to do a find, or show the result of a calculation, the data necessary to do the action is transferred from the server to the client and the client calculates the result. This is handy because you don’t need super powerful [...]
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FileMaker does most of its processing client side. That means when a client wants to do a find, or show the result of a calculation, the data necessary to do the action is transferred from the server to the client and the client calculates the result. This is handy because you don’t need super powerful servers and the amount of load put on the server itself is reduced. But there’s a tradeoff, in some circumstances, it can also be extraordinarily painful. If a lot of data needs to be moved, the t
FileMaker does most of its processing client side. That means when a client wants to do a find, or show the result of a calculation, the data necessary to do the action is transferred from the server to the client and the client calculates the result. This is handy because you don’t need super powerful servers and the amount of load put on the server itself is reduced. But there’s a tradeoff, in some circumstances, it can also be extraordinarily painful. If a lot of data needs to be moved, the t
Last week in part 1 we looked at four “outer join” reporting approaches. Two of them involved ExecuteSQL, and I ended that section with the plea: Of course it’s possible that you, dear reader, know some FileMaker SQL voodoo to speed things up, and would be willing to share? Well Dr. Osamu Noda of Japan [...]
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Join Mark Richman For This FileMaker Web Event
FileMaker Training Series: FileMaker Server
On Tuesday, October 16th, FileMaker invites you to “FileMaker Server,” the last session in a three part webinar series based on the new FileMaker Training Series for FileMaker 12. The webinar is from 8am - 9am (PST) / 10am - 11am (CST) / 11am - 12pm (EST).
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Some common themes are emerging from a number of GoZync deployments we’ve completed recently, and one of them is that folks need their sync to be modular. Even in one-task applications there isn’t just one kind of record being synced, or one sync environment. Here is what we’re seeing recently…
• Not all data has the same timeliness. In our construction inspection app inspectors need to get the textual data from the inspection back to the office immediately (so builders’ checks can be cut) but
Like a crazy hoarder I mistake the root cause of my growing mountain of incomplete work. The hoarder thinks he has a storage problem when he really has a ‘throwing things away problem’. I say I am ‘time poor’ as if the problem is that poor me is given only 24 hours in a day. It’s more accurate to say… what exactly?
…from here.
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Eliminate Double Data Entry
There are two things you can do in business to improve profits: increase top line revenue and cut costs.
Opportunities to increase top line revenue can be elusive, and often depend on forces outside your control. Preventing your staff from entering data two, three or even four times – on the other hand – is a prime opportunity to cut costs.
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Recently I had an on-screen reporting challenge, and decided to try several different approaches to see which would be fastest. Starting with two tables: one containing 20 Employees, and the other containing 2,000 Sales Data records for the current year… …display daily sales totals per employee in a seven-day grid, like so: Of course, as [...]
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Doug Alder of HomeBase Software out of Vancouver, BC posted an excellent explanation of locking down an iOS device to use an FM Go database in “Kiosk” mode, using the Accessibility options. While you’re there, check out his FileMaker Timeline (which isn’t working in Chrome for me, but in Firefox it looks great).
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Doug Alder of HomeBase Software out of Vancouver, BC posted an excellent explanation of locking down an iOS device to use an FM Go database in “Kiosk” mode, using the Accessibility options. While you’re there, check out his FileMaker Timeline (which isn’t working in Chrome for me, but in Firefox it looks great).
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Doug Alder of HomeBase Software out of Vancouver, BC posted an excellent explanation of locking down an iOS device to use an FM Go database in “Kiosk” mode, using the Accessibility options. While you’re there, check out his FileMaker Timeline (which isn’t working in Chrome for me, but in Firefox it looks great).
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Doug Alder of HomeBase Software out of Vancouver, BC posted an excellent explanation of locking down an iOS device to use an FM Go database in “Kiosk” mode, using the Accessibility options. While you’re there, check out his FileMaker Timeline (which isn’t working in Chrome for me, but in Firefox it looks great).
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Filemaker 12 has now been out for a few months and we have had a chance to use all the new features in anger. But which is the stand out improvement to FileMaker The new themes allow you to create a reasonable looking system very quickly and then at the touch of a menu item...
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New! FileMaker iOS Technology Usage Guide
With our broad experience creating advanced database solutions, we agree that the FileMaker Platform provides application developers an unprecedented opportunity for rapidly creating mobile apps that integrate seamlessly with iOS technology components to provide the best iOS experience possible.
Mark's most recent collaboration with FileMaker, the How To Guide – Best practices for using iOS Technology in custom app development with FileMaker Pro
Have you ever wanted to export a single field and maintain all the characters in that field? This article explores the possibility with XML Export and the use of a simple XSLT. But first we’ll explain the good, the bad and the ugly of some different standard ways to export TEXT out of FileMaker. Using [...]
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The question on one or more of the FileMaker forums was asked and answered. Q: How do you get the Count() of the related records in a filtered portal? A: (paraphrased) duplicate the filtered portal and make it one row in height. Place the related summary field, “Count of…”, in the single row filtered portal. [...]
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FileMaker Server 12 BackUps Frequently Asked Questions
FileMaker® Server 12 has a number of new features for creating backups of databases it hosts.
As evidenced by questions raised at the 2012 DevCon and as evidenced by a number of items posted on various FileMaker lists, there is a good deal of confusion still about how the new backup system works.
Wim Decorte and I have authored a short set of Frequently Asked Questions along with their answers about this topic. You can downloa
tl;dr: Plug-in developers can now update their plug-ins to run in 64 bit mode. There’s an undocumented change to how the Web Publishing Engine runs that affects where to install plug-ins to be run by CWP. A few weeks ago FMI released the FMS 12 v2 update, adding support for 64 bit plugins used by [...]
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tl;dr: Plug-in developers can now update their plug-ins to run in 64 bit mode. There’s an undocumented change to how the Web Publishing Engine runs that affects where to install plug-ins to be run by CWP.
A few weeks ago FMI released the FMS 12 v2 update, adding support for 64 bit plugins used by CWP solutions. FMI also released a new software developer’s kit (SDK) for plug-in developers. Until this SDK, there was no way for plug-in devs to update their plug-ins to run in 64 bit mode. So some F
tl;dr: Plug-in developers can now update their plug-ins to run in 64 bit mode.
There’s an undocumented change to how the Web Publishing Engine runs that affects where to install plug-ins to be run by CWP.
A few weeks ago FMI released the FMS 12 v2 update, adding support for 64 bit plugins used by CWP solutions. FMI also released a new software developer’s kit (SDK) for plug-in developers. Until this SDK, there was no way for plug-in devs to update their plug-ins to run in 64 bit mode. So some
In July and August we explored several esoteric value list techniques. This time around, and over the next few postings, we’re going to step back from the cutting edge, identify some common value list challenges, and propose some solutions to those challenges. A few thoughts before we begin: Some of the material in this series [...]
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Upcoming Events
Here are some happenings in September and October:
TOMORROW- Friday, September 7th, FM Academy Free Webinar
Join us from 1pm - 2pm (CST) for DEVCON 2012 RECAP: WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED.
Register here.
Did you make it to Miami this July for FileMaker’s DevCon? Even if you did, you could not have been everywhere at once! Join Anvil Dataworks and the rest of the FM Academy crew as we provide a recap of key sessions and happenings behind the scenes.
