Pond Care Company Uses FileMaker Pro with Field-Synced iPads to Deliver Photos & Service Records to Office Staff & Clientele; System Eliminates Paperwork & Improves Customer Communications
ASAP Aquatics is located in Indianapolis.
Lakes and ponds are lovely … when they are lovely. But not so much when frothy slicks of fluorescent algae bloom all over the surface. To fix this problem, the people of Central Indiana rely on ASAP Aquatics. Founded in 1996, ASAP Aquatics offers algae
Penny Newman Grain Co.
CLIENT Penny Newman Grain Co.
DATE 2012
TAGS Agriculture, Consulting, Database, Design-Development, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Pro, Mobile Applications, Synchronization
About Penny Newman Grain Co.
Penny Newman Grain Inc. is a grain/feed supplier to the cattle and livestock industry.
Challenge:
Penny Newman had an idea to try and convert their dealers from paper-based reportin
The Discovery Phase:
Taking the Final Leap: Define the Scope & Approve the Plan
When it’s time to actually begin development the tendency is to want to just get started. A lot of time and effort has gone into getting to this point, so there can be a lot of eXcitement about finally making things happen. However, there is one last step to take before your developer puts fingers to keyboard. The “discovery” phase is where the requirements gathering is done. It is the all important planning
FileMaker Pro Brings Light to the End of Repair Shop’s Dark Data Tunnel
Solution Optimizes Workflow & Allows ERS to Analyze Data to Reduce Customers’ Repair Costs
When an endoscope fails or performs poorly, it’s a big, costly deal. Broken scopes lead to downtime and downtime costs money. So how do hospitals, surgery centers and clinics keep their endoscopy suites in full working order? They rely on businesses like Endoscopy Repair Specialist Inc. (ERS) to provide preventive mainten
Part 5: Rassling with the R’s — Roles and Responsibilities in Software Development
Knowing the Software Development Roles…
It’s important to get the right people in the right place at the right time. Once the development project launches, everyone involved will have an opinion, eXpertise and investment in the outcome. To get the best results, it’s important to use each person in the right way. Quality in, quality out. In this installment, we’ll walk you through client and developer d
FileMaker Pro Audit Trail “Revisited”
By Doug West
Nearly four years have passed since our last Easy-Bake FileMaker Pro Audit Trail made its Internet debut. The same principles are still going strong, and now we’ve added some bells and whistles based on user feedback.
The steps to implement this revised FileMaker Pro audit trail technique in your own solution is as easy as:
Copy the four custom functions from this demo file and paste them into each file of your app.
Copy the _audit field a
Part 4: Making the Plan for Planning Your Plan of the Project Plan – What Do We Need to Get This Software Development Party Started!
You’ve decided that custom app development is for you. You’ve vetted software firms, sorted out your contract and hired a developer. You’re ready to start creating the ideal solution for your business. Now what?
As you start a custom software development project, it is important to gather as much of the necessary information up front as you can to be cer
Part 3: Quotes, Estimates and Change Orders, Oh My! — Understanding Pricing & Billing Models
Creating the perfect vision of your business and even how a software solution enhances that vision is the fun part of dreaming about growing a business. Brainstorming ideas and building a mental picture of how business could be done more efficiently, or eXpanded, really gets the juices flowing. Creativity is unleashed. Evaluating the costs associated with business development, however, tends
Part 2: What Should You Consider When Selecting a Development Partner? What Questions Might You Ask a Potential Developer?
Hiring a developer is about creating a working relationship. You want someone who gets your business and gets you. Having a good working relationship often determines the success or failure of a development project. Hire someone you are comfortable with who also has the skills necessary to make your project successful. Beyond the quality of the working relationsh
Part 1: Embracing the Development Mind-Set
Software development isn’t magic. There isn’t a black box where you can throw a bunch of ideas and requirements and out pops a smoothly working app that perfectly meets all of your business needs. Once you see that in print, it seems perfectly logical, but because the process is often hard to understand it feels like there is at least a little magic involved.
Collaboration
Development is a partnership between the client and the developer. You br
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.
Features
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Government Approves Bio-Engineered Mosquitoes to Combat Disease
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Mosquitoes suck blood.
From me and from you.
There’s a groovy new way to bid them adieu.
eXcelisys would like to offer a huge “Hip, Hip, Hurrah!” to our client MosquitoMate for passing the EPA hurdle of approval. A few days ago, the U.S. government approved MosquitoMate’s ZAP Males® for use in 20 states.
New Assassin Mosquitoes
EPA approves method designed by MosquitoMate to combat
FileMaker Pro Coaching / Consulting … Because 2 Heads Are Better Than 1
Citizen developers and seasoned developers alike can benefit from a little technical & tactical FileMaker Pro advice to keep them moving in the right direction
Coaching. We all know what that is. Flip on a college or pro football game any weekend and you’ll see the coach pacing the sideline, barking instructions and yelping words of encouragement. When we hear “coach” we think sports, but the word’s origin points
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Oyster Farm Nets Hefty Harvest by Linking FileMaker Pro and QuickBooks
FMP/QB Integration Spawns a Sea Change of Efficiency
Located on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, Hama Hama is a fifth-generation timber and oyster farm (photo courtesy of Hama Hama).
Just as the soils of Napa Valley bestow the ideal wine-making grapes, the waters of Washington’s glacier-carved Hood Canal are idyllic for oyster farming. Here, the Hama Hama Co. raises its famous beach-cultured Hama Hama oysters and tumb
Custom FileMaker Pro App Pedals Bike Tour Company on a New Journey
Tour-Tracker takes the hammering out of managing two-wheeled travelers to a more coasting eXperience!
Dedicated to helping women grow into intrepid bike travelers, WomanTours has been spreading the joys of two-wheeled travel since 1994. The women-only bike tour company offers more than 50 cycling trips a year, from weeklong domestic romps to epic cross-country tours (think 58 days of pedal-pushing from sea to shining sea). In
Custom FileMaker Go iPad App Helps FMS Health & Safety Identify Dysfunctional Movement to Reduce Injuries and Workers’ Compensation Costs
Mike Contreras would like to teach the world to move. Fluidly. Adeptly. With no hitches. No pain. “Our research — and the research out there — shows that if you can improve how somebody moves, you can improve everything about the quality of their life.” Thanks to a custom FileMaker Go iPad App built by eXcelisys, Contreras’s data now moves fluidly
Hierarchical Portal Filtering Incorporating Drag-n-Drop Technique
By Andy Persons
This is part three of a three-part series on hierarchical portals in FileMaker Pro. You can find part one here and part two here. Demonstrating how to provide drag-and-drop rearranging and arbitrary sorting of hierarchical items.
Standard Interface
A common request when implementing hierarchical portal filtering is the ability to drag an item exactly where you want it to go. If you want it insid
Ziptastic Revisited
By: Doug West
**Requires FileMaker Pro 16
Lookup the city and state for any ZIP Code quickly and easily using JSON data from the Ziptastic web service API with FileMaker Pro 16.
Ziptastic is a simple web service for accessing geolocation data associated with postal codes. The API provided at getziptastic.com supports postal codes in 70 countries. By sending a US-based ZIP Code in a URL, we can quickly and easily get the associated city, county, and state.
FileMaker Pro Custom App with Interactive Maps & Scheduling Grids Turn Campground & Canoe Management into a Leisure Activity
Located on the Rifle River in Sterling, Michigan, River View Campground & Canoe Livery hosts some 2,000 guests each weekend.
Paper-process overload is one of the top reasons organizations turn to a FileMaker Pro Custom App. In the mid-2000s, River View Campground & Canoe Livery co-owner Todd Golebiewski realized he needed a better canoe and camp
Editable FileMaker Pro Virtual Lists
FMP tip developed by David Thorp, Article written by Andy Persons
*Tested in FileMaker Pro 14-16
Virtual Lists
Since FileMaker Pro virtual lists were introduced more than five years go, they have seen wide use due to two primary benefits: flexibility and performance. The whole point of this tip is EDITING values in a virtual list. That's new and fancy and most people believed impossible, until now!
Flexibility
FileMaker Pro Virt
Editable FileMaker Pro Virtual Lists
FMP tip developed by David Thorp, Article written by Andy Persons
*Tested in FileMaker Pro 14-16
Virtual Lists
Since FileMaker Pro virtual lists were introduced more than five years go, they have seen wide use due to two primary benefits: flexibility and performance. The whole point of this tip is EDITING values in a virtual list. That’s new and fancy and most people believed impossible, until now!
Flexibility
FileMaker Pro Virt
• FileMaker® Pro Tip-n-Trick •
FileMaker Master-Detail in a Web Viewer
By: RJ Carroll
* This has been tested on FileMaker Pro 14-16
FileMaker Master-Detail views are a great way to minimize the number of separate layouts and also provide users with the best of both worlds when it comes to viewing their data as a hybrid of FileMaker Pro’s native “List” and “Form” views. A Master-Detail interface is also naturally intuitive to users familiar with side navigation panels that are
Inverted Portals With FileMaker Pro
By: Doug West
**Tested on FileMaker Pro versions 14-16
Portals are great for displaying information in the appropriate context. Unfortunately, they don’t always provide the most intuitive user experience when newcomers are learning how to enter data in a FileMaker solution.
After configuring a relationship in the Manage Database window to enable the option to “Allow creation of records in this table via this relationship”, we can easily cre
