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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GoZync Case Study
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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
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
One of the less obvious, but exciting new features in FileMaker 13 is the two new clauses available in FileMaker’s SQL syntax. It’s less obvious, because you need to read the new FileMaker SQL Reference Guide to see they’ve been added.
(Here is the FileMaker 13 SQL Reference. All FM13 docs are here.)
The new clauses are OFFSET and FETCH FIRST. We’ve been asking for these functions in the FMSQL engine since the plug-in days, and they’re finally here. They give you the ability to slice your r
More Fun with FileMaker Animations: Slide Panels
http://www.seedcode.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AnimatedSwitch.mp4
By carefully positioning images within slide panels we can get a nice animated effect when clicking a simple switch.
This doesn’t use any tricky code, just a very careful placement of the image inside a slide control whose radius has been set to match that of the switch image.
Just like a regular button, we use a simple script to set the field value our switch represents–th
Start the new year with the tools you need. All SeedCode products 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 SeedCode uses
Popovers are one of my favorite things in FileMaker 13. Like tab panels and slide controls they’re a region within a layout, but unlike our other enclosures they don’t take up any space when they’re not in use. We love them. But they have a couple of unexpected behaviors you’ll want to be aware of as you start putting popovers to work.
FileMaker 13 Popover Bugs
Selecting a customer in a popover. From the “invoices” starter solution.
Issue in Web Direct: Portal buttons fail in all but the
FileMaker 13 Slide Controls + Refresh Object = Faster Layouts
For starters, don’t forget about the new script step “Refresh Object”– I did.
I had some icons whose “hide” status was based on the visibility calc :
GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( “Home” ; “isFrontPanel” )
Using a single panel as a refresh enclosure.
Now, isFront doesn’t just evaluate as slide panels move around so I’d added a Refresh Window script step to get them to behave. However, the new script step “Refresh Object” app
Hiding FileMaker Objects: The Old Way
Before FileMaker 13 there was no native way to make an object conditionally visible. And sometimes it seems like we developers spent an inordinate amount of our time working around issues of “reflow” and “visibility”: getting objects to slide into the position vacated by now absent objects, and getting objects to show and hide correctly in the first place. Think of button states, error messages, and admin-only areas of our solutions.
Before FileMaker 13
Ever since we added rich logging to GoZync, I’ve found the logs incredibly helpful. (Look for them to make their way into SeedCode’s next products as well.)
Here is a great example of why they’re so cool (and why having a transparent, scriptable sync helps developers)…
GoZync maintains the last sync log for each user.
A customer recently contacted us to say that their syncs were rolling back due to errors. This was new as they’d been up with GoZync for months.
The logs in their hosted file
Missed SeedCode in Chicago?
If you missed Jeff’s presentation at fmproductconference.com, we’ve published his introduction to GoZync here. This is a great overview of what we love most about GoZync and why we use it whenever our customers need to work with FileMaker offline.
Interested in attending a GoZync Webinar?
Jeff will be offering webinars on GoZync following the rough outline of this presentation in the next few weeks. Attendance will be limited to 30 people for each webinar so
SeedCode’s customer KeyPlus was recently featured on FileMaker’s UK site showing off their new GoZync-enabled solution for alarm response and reporting.
Employees complete incident reports in the field using company iPads and iPhones, this “not only saves time but also helps to prevent errors stemming from employees having to wait until they have returned to the office before typing up reports.”
The FileMaker solution has completely streamlined the business. Clients are now updated much mo
Parameter order matters in ng-repeat
While building our new timeline app, speed has always been tricky; even if we are trying to show 1k events at once over a span of several years, we hope the app will feel responsive. Accordingly, we’re looping through all available events and reserving a space for them in the DOM whether they are visible or not. This can cause some pretty big slowdowns as our event count grows.
Timeline. Events only rendered as users scroll them into view.
This all happe
…there may be thoughts we can not think.” Without new tools. – Richard Hamming via Bret Victor from “Media for Thinking the Unthinkable”.
Wonderful stuff. I see a timeline in many of the representations Victor employs and the temporal nature of a system seems to be part of what he’s emphasizing. (I often need to remind myself, when working on an app, that I’m not “designing a better poster” of a calendar, for example. Rather, it can move; it can be interrogated.)
Details: http://worrydream.c
Finally got some images of the new interface FullCity Consulting is using in their GoZync-enabled inspection app. We showed this off in a case study before they’d revised it and this new, sexy version was subsequently featured at DevCon in 2011. Good stuff. Check out the full case study here.
FullCity’s new zync-enabled application.
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Looks like folks will have to update to FileMaker Pro/Advanced 12.0 v5 to be compatible with Mac OS X “Mavericks” (12.0 v4 is NOT compatible). Of greater concern is that FileMaker Server 12 and FMSA 12 are not currently compatible with Mavericks at all, and the update isn’t expected until “later this year”. Joe at 360Works says they’ve done some internal testing, and reports that “it seems to hose the WPE pretty well”. Ugh!
Here’s FileMaker’s document on all of that: http://help.filemaker.com/a
One of the most popular sync workflows we see involves marking records as checked out when a mobile user downloads them. This can be used, along with FileMaker’s Access Privileges, to prevent hosted users from changing records a mobile user now “owns”.
This is very easy to do in GoZync and really shows off how developers can get inside the scripts and change the sync itself:
Learn more about checking out records in GoZync’s docs here.
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“The great secret of System Design is to be able to sense what things can be done easily and elegantly by means of a system and what things are hard–and to stay away from the hard things.” – John Gall
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(For those who’ve seen this before we’re just reposting this, having neglected to move it from our old site. For those who haven’t seen this, check out the video below: a great testimonial of what GoZync can do for a customer.)
As featured in the DevCon 2011 Keynote, using Sync Zync For FileMaker Go
We were thrilled to see Andy LeCates demonstrate GoZync in the DevCon keynote back in 2011.
Andy showed off a deployment of GoZync that Todd Geist integrated into a solution for STAT Bio-Medical.
Apple’s new operating system for iPhone and iPad changes the way two critical FileMaker functions work in FileMaker Go. While we fully expect a patch from FileMaker very soon, you’ll want to review the issue and either hold off on upgrading to iOS7, retool your FileMaker Go apps, or both.
You can read more about this issue, along with our recommendations, here: www.seedcode.com/iOS7
It’s especially important for GoZync users to read up and take this opportunity to update to at least GoZync 4 (
This is what finally got me to read Roberto Bolaño?!
Angus Croll: fantastic.
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Back from DevCon and refocussing, as I think we all are. I’m trying the “desired outcomes” chart again (worked well when I worked it) and am reminded of Benjamin Franklin’s plan for each day:
Wish I remembered where I snapped this.
Pretty cool. The days when I do the most important thing before I start reacting to email are by far the most productive enjoyable. The “desired outcomes” chart is here.
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We’re offering 20% off on all products through August 22nd as part of DevCon 2013.
If you need some inspiration, all our FileMaker Syncing Products are on sale: you know you’ll need ‘em sooner or later.
You’ll see the 20% taken off as soon as you add an item to your cart.
Enjoy!
By the way, neither John nor Jason are speaking at the conference this year. We wanted to take the summer to focus on shipping a few things–like SQLx, the new faster GoZync 4, and the brand new SeedCode Subscribe–al
