Congratulations. You’ve upgraded to the latest version of the FileMaker platform. That’s a good thing. We always recommend folks do that quickly. There’s compelling reasons to keep your app fresh. The FileMaker platform, in its current 17 version state, is exciting and new and quite game changing (again). Let’s take a moment to look at […]
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FileMaker Pro Advanced 17 gives everyone the full developer tools in the platform to be efficient in development and analysis. We review all the tools finally available.
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FileMaker is not a Product it is a Platform. Platforms are different. They don't really have a product release every 2 to 4 years. They have regular releases of whatever is ready to go. That's why I don't care much about the number 17.
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The FileMaker Database Design Report exposes the DNA of a custom app, showing where a field or calculation is used. The report is invaluable to a developer.
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Last week, the Adatasol FileMaker Podcast, hosted by Dan Weiss of Adatasol interviewed Todd. He spoke about Geist Interactive: our history, where we are, and things we love.
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We are FileMaker Developers. That means we can be JavaScript developers as well. We can learn and use JS in our work to enhance our custom FileMaker apps. Let's explore why we can and learn JavaScript.
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Have you ever been deep into a complex FileMaker script and realized you need to know something about the structure of the app? Maybe you need to know where a custom function is used, or what scripts call the script you are working on. What do you do?
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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.
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GoDraw3 is a drawing tool, but it can also be used as a visual data-entry system. Objects in a drawing can have data attached, and that data can be saved.
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GoDraw3 is the FileMaker Drawing Tool. It provides a lot of functionality for users, and gives great flexibility for FileMaker developers. Take a look and see how to Draw in FileMaker.
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FileMaker Security is like leveling up your character in a video game: get to the level that is best for your data. Here we examine the levels of security.
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We’ve got something special up our sleeves. It’s an awesome new version of a great product, and it features some great technology. . . We’re pretty proud of it. Stay tuned!
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A summary table in a custom app is a good way to hold information of a closed set of records. This kind of table brings many advantages and some considerations, but it is worth exploring.
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FileMaker JSON Charting is very possible since JSON is a great source of data. Here we take a look at how these two great tools are combined.
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We're continuing our discussion of FileMaker Charting by discussing how to collect data using the Related Records and Current Record data sources.
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The FileMaker Charting object can be mastered by understanding its data sources.We will look at the three sources and how to collect data for it.
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FileMaker 16's game-changing JSON functions give us native ability to parse a JSON object. Our free tool, Generator, makes that even easier. Follow along in this post or in the video and see how Generator will do 80% of the work for you!
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Native FileMaker consists of so much more than scripts and fields and tables. We can leverage the entire platform and use all of native FileMaker.
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The San Diego User Group meeting is scheduled and full of great topics. We'll look at Geist Interactive's Generator and Testable FileMaker Solutions
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Geist Interactive is proud to be a Diamond Level sponsor at FileMaker DevCon 2018. The whole team will be there sharing our love of the platform.
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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.
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The FileMaker Data Viewer is an essential tool for reviewing current scripts or data in a record or the file in general. It is a must for every developer. In this post we will look at all you can do with the tool.
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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.
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In this new series "Learn FileMaker Like a BOSS!" we explore techniques and concepts and tools that will help developers become better at what they do. It is our goal to remind people of all that is out there and to bring those new to FileMaker up into more advanced development faster.
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DamageDetectoR is a free macOS-only tool that identifies the issues that can cause an XML DDR to fail to import into FMPerception or other analysis tool. It identifies specific issues and the location of each issue in your FileMaker file.
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