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FileMaker 2026 Released

Captain's Blog

A blog by Ocean West in Affiliate Blogs

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DotFMP - The Pan European Un-Conference

I don't blog much - but I wanted to say i really enjoyed my second visit to dotFMP.com in Berlin a few weeks ago ( first week of June). It was a fantastic collection of brilliant talent! and very kindred souls, that I have had the pleasure of visiting. The start to the conference in Berlin was the oldest beer garden in east Berlin - and well when in Berlin    Was a great way to start a conference.  Here is an audio recording of a impromptu podcast I did with Egbert or @pixi the conference or

A little SQL with a dash of Virtual List

Ok I don't blog much so here goes. I have this process where I need to create 4 records for every customer with different dates per month. I settled on the process to derive this set of values via Execute SQL because of a few factors. I need to collect all this data in and have it sorted by date. Any other method the data would be semi sorted and not naturally in chronological order because of overlap from one customer to the next. But i also needed another UUID that can wo

Local Blogs

For members who have been blogging on the site - many of you have or maintain an external blog. Initially when we set up the forum we allowed external blog link all that did was redirect a visitor to your actually blog, and counted how many times that link was clicked. I have since disabled external blog links but I have enabled RSS Import of external blogs - This way entries of your blogs can be imported as they occur. (10 per day) and you get the benefit of having view counts on each o

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