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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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Hacking Your Own FileMaker Platform Solutions
Should FileMaker Platform developers mount hacking attacks on their own solutions? At first glance, this may seem an odd question. But I believe that the answer is “Yes, we should.”
Consider this. As developers we see our solutions from a totally different perspective than Threat Agents see them. Without practicing our own hacking skills, we can become blind to the vulnerabilities a Threat Agent can exploit to compromise the Confidentiality
WidgetStudio makes it easy to use, design and share powerful interface widgets, like calendars, gauges, charts, and timers. Pick from the constantly growing set of included widgets or build your own. Freely share them with your customers or friends.
The post Announcing WidgetStudio – FileMaker WebViewer Widgets appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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Hierarchical JSON Viewer / Editor
By Andy Persons & Doug West
One of the standout new features of FileMaker Pro 16 is native support for the JSON data-interchange format. In addition to providing easy integration with a host of online services, it also provides developers with the tools to create robust hierarchical structures for use entirely within FileMaker. This hierarchical JSON viewer / editor file provides some tools for visualizing, manipulating, and leveraging JSON text.
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The FileMaker Let function is your tool to make a calculation readable, well formatted and easy to debug. Let us discuss how it can be used.
The post Like a Boss: Let us Discuss the FileMaker Let Function appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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Got this great screen shot in from Brent Foster at fastcuts.tv where they use our calendar layout to schedule video production…
Brent’s addition of Out, Room, Users, and Resource columns to the calendar
Most developers don’t take enough advantage of how easy it is to add columns to the day view of our Pro Calendar: easy and looks great. Thanks Brent.
• Learn more about our Pro Calendar add-on: built solely with FileMaker Pro scripts and layouts.
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Building FileMaker solutions for iOS introduces a new set of challenges for developers and requires UI controls that make it easy for users to interact. This article gives a very quick and simple technique you can use to make selecting tab controls much easier for FileMaker Go users on iPad and iPhone.
Read the full article here: http://www.teamdf.com/weetbicks/big-tabs/220/
FMI Security Webinar
On February 11th FileMaker, Inc. presented two webinars on FileMaker Platform Security. I am highly gratified that FileMaker, Inc. did this. These webinars, conducted by Consulting Systems Engineer Rosemary Tietge, clearly laid out the case for following Best Practices for securing files and their data across all elements of the FileMaker Platform.
I want to expand on a number of recommendations about enhancing FileMaker file security from those webinars. By way
Developers love that GoZync can be set to pull just a found set of records down to an iPhone or iPad. Folks use this to deliver just one user’s records–usually very specific things like “my customer visits for today” or “my active orders in this territory”.
The QuickContact example file from GoZync: modded to sync flagged records.
Less well known but almost cooler is that you can give your users the ability to “push” just a found set of records back to the office. This is great for when yo
My last post talked about JavaScpipt and how exciting it is to be programming in this language. With this post I thought I would continue and explain a little bit more why it is exciting. A few months ago at Linear Blue the web team began looking into Node.js and inperticular it’s ability to achieve...
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The animations introduced in FM13 are great, but they still don’t let us animate the transition from one layout to another. This is something we’re looking for as it’s often used in iOS apps to move from list to detail and back again.
However, using full-layout slide panels, we can animate layout transitions as long as we’re careful to get the timings right. Our unlocked example file demonstrates how to do this in your own solutions and introduces using
I’m sure we can think of some examples of where the deployment of Instant Web Publishing [iWP] for a solution has been successful and served to meet purpose for the end user. There are many examples, however, where IWP has been considered but the limitations proved too much of a stretch to be incorporated into...
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Syncing FileMaker Go
If you’re looking to learn more about syncing FileMaker Go, this Jan 7 webinar features demos of some of GoZync’s features along with a good deal of Q&A from the audience. Enjoy!
Learn more about Syncing FileMaker Go with GoZync: GoZync download, demo & screenshots.
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FileMaker 13 has been with us for a few weeks now and with it comes a new set of gotchas. I thought I would share a couple of things to watch out for when producing printed (pdf) reports (one of which was introduced in 12). In FileMaker 12 in the Layout Setup dialog we were...
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Here’s to 30 years of the Macintosh platform. Having started my journey into programming and computers back in the days of DOS and command prompts, I quickly fell in love with the beauty of the design, simplicity and power that the Macintosh gave to the user. 30 years on and I still love working on...
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I collect all the new calendars for iOS, even the terribly strange ones (for example, try to use–or to even pronounce–”Schelandars“).
Add an event in iCalendar
One of my favorites is currently iCalendar which has a nice clean display and a simple interface for linking contacts and places to an event.
Of course any of these iOS calendars can show events from FileMaker if you’re using SeedCode Subscribe: once you add a Subscribe URL as a source on your iPhone it’s available to any calendar
Our blog re-sent some notifications for a few old posts this morning: sorry for the unwanted email. Not quite sure what happened as we received them also.
I apologize for the interruption.
- John
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FileMaker, Inc. has just published a case study featuring GoZync; it highlights the mobile solution SeedCode built for Blueprint Capital. Blueprint is one of the largest residential construction lenders in Seattle and their whole lending practice is run from a FileMaker solution named Blueprint Connect™.
Blueprint Mobile: offline inspections synced to FileMaker Server
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Leverage your FileMaker Audit Logs
Here is a common reporting request: the customer has a project with a status field that changes over time. They’d like a report that shows what the status of the project was on a given date in the past. This can be pretty hard to do if you hadn’t anticipated this request to begin with. Fortunately, running a FileMaker audit log isn’t that tough and makes answering questions like this much simpler.
In our case we had been running a version of Ray Cologon’s Ult
Responsive design is something you may have heard about in recent months but may not know exactly what it means or what it’s meant to do. With the way the web is now shaping, Responsive design is something that is key to any online business’s continued survival. So, what is responsive design? A responsively designed...
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Welcome back, in Part 1 I started talking about what it’s been like for me to start learning FileMaker. Today I talk about about what my impressions are having had some experience, what the future might hold, and what I’m expecting to find along the way. Part 2 I’m now three months down the line...
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Over the past 10 or more years JavaScript has existed as a means of aiding developers in manipulating the DOM or Document Object Model of web browsers, to this day not much has changed, except that JavaScript has grown up and become more powerful. The biggest bugbear with JavaScript was the differences in behaviour between...
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Last day of our Year-End Sale.
Get a head start in 2014: all SeedCode offerings are on sale for 25% off through Dec 31. That includes upgrades and additional licenses. So if your solution is growing, or you’d like to quickly add some value for your users, consider bolting on some SeedCode in the new year.
And if you’re new to all this, dive in with some of our free stuff. Both the free versions of our Calendar and of GoZync let you add real value to your solutions while learning more about how
Fish. Shredder. Catch the People.
Yes, that is the actual name of the game I made with my 5yr old son. It’s a good name. =)
Go play. Requires Chrome. Spacebar to fire. (Good luck)
Something that I remember fondly as a child was spending hours in front of my Nintendo playing every game I could get my hands on. My classmates and I would even fantasize about making our own video game and drew out some very crude game designs to show off our great ideas. So when I was trying to brainstorm some
Making FileMaker 13 Buttons Easy to Modify
FileMaker 12 and 13 give us a lot of new tools for making buttons look great. But if you want to use both an icon and text in your button you’ll need to make some tough decisions as this isn’t well supported out of the box.
The main issue is that while you can use an image as the fill for a button, you can’t position it to the left or right of the button’s text. This means a lot of folks are making their buttons completely in Photoshop–and making a se
Having developed some solutions for iOS devices over recent months in FileMaker 12 I thought I’d reflect on the recent enhancements provided by the release of FileMaker 13. Clearly FileMaker have put considerable emphasis on the ability to quickly deploy efficient solutions that behave as though they were an integral component of either iPad or...
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There are several ways of generating a bar code in FileMaker, the main ones being, a formatted field with a barcode font or using a plugin. The difference being that plugins give more control over the attributes and return a graphic. If you want to generate a QR code there is no font option but we...
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