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Survival Guide: Find, Hire and Work with a Software Developer, Successfully! (Part 1 of 7)

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

[FMP Tip-n-Trick] Hierarchical JSON Viewer / Editor

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

FileMaker Developers Wanted

: FileMaker Developers Wanted : We’re Looking For a Few Good FileMaker Developers eXcelisys is eXpanding! Demand has grown for our FileMaker Pro development and consulting services. FT, PT, subcontractor positions available. We are seeking motivated self–starters to join our expanding team of professional FileMaker Pro Developers If you like setting your own hours, working from a hammock on the beach, or from a cabin overlooking a snow–capped mountain, or whatever idealistic work–from–

eXcelisys Congratulates MosquitoMate on EPA Approval!

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

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

Reviews Display

Google Rating:5 out 5 based on 37 reviews FaceBook Rating:5 out 5 based on 23 reviews BBB Rating:A+ based on 38 reviews eXcelisys Survey:5 out 5 based on 92 reviews The post Reviews Display appeared first on eXcelisys. View the full article

Oyster Farm Nets Hefty Harvest by Linking FileMaker Pro and QuickBooks

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

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

FileMaker Go iPad App: A Notion for Motion Devotion

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

[FMP Tip-n-Trick] FileMaker Pro Hierarchical Portal Filtering 2.3 Using Drag-n-Drop

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

[FMP Tip-n-Trick] Ziptastic Revisited Using FileMaker Pro 16

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.

Happy Camping at Riverview with FileMaker Pro Custom App

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

[FMP TnT] Editable FileMaker Pro Virtual Lists

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

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 Master-Detail in a Web Viewer

• 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

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

FileMaker Pro Hierarchical Portal Filtering 2.2

Hierarchical Portal Filtering within FileMaker Pro By Andy Persons This is the second of a three-part series on FileMaker Pro hierarchical portal filtering. You can find part one here. This FileMaker Pro hierarchical portal filtering file demonstrates how to provide high-performance sorting of a hierarchical portal by various fields, while maintaining the hierarchy. **Been tested in FileMaker Pro versions 14-16. Download the FileMaker Pro hierarchical portal filtering demo file. Static Ap

Got Rentals?

Got Rentals? Finally, the Ultimate Rental-Tracking Software Solution for the Equipment Rental Industry!   Pre-made? Custom? Or SaaS? It’s a never-ending battle of pros and cons when trying to find apps that will make your rental business run smoother while giving you the best bang for the buck. Pre-made? Tempting. It costs less up front but choosing this one-size-fits-all solution may leave you addled with useless features and not enough

Got Rentals? Get Our Rental-Tracking eX-File!

Finally, the Ultimate Rental-Tracking Software Solution for the Equipment Rental Industry! Pre-made? Custom? Or SaaS? It’s a never-ending battle of pros and cons when trying to find rental-tracking apps that will make your rental business run smoother while giving you the best bang for the buck. Pre-made? Tempting. It costs less up front but choosing this one-size-fits-all solution may leave you addled with useless features and not enough functionality. Custom? Seems costly but will definit

Cinema Camera Reboots With FileMaker Pro Rental Tracking App

New Camera Rental Tracking App Trims Paperwork “Production” Time & Turns Daily Tasks into One-Click Acts In the hot movie-making hub of Hollywood, Cinema Camera Rentals faces stiff competition in providing customers with the latest and greatest technology has to offer. With a need to streamline its equipment rental pipeline, Cinema Camera Rentals recently contracted with eXcelisys for a new rental tracking app. Together, the two firms wrote the script for a bang-up inventory management sy

Camera Rental Company Zooms In On Inventory Control Using FileMaker Pro

Blockbuster Rental-Tracking Inventory App Sharpens Booking Process, Cuts Equipment Retrieval and Check-in Times During Hollywood’s rapid fade-out of 35-millimeter film, camera operator Neal Norton saw an opportunity to make money in the digital retooling of the industry. The year was 2010 and the German-made Arri ALEXA had just hit the market, providing a viable digital alternative to celluloid film. Norton decided to take action. He partnered with cinematographer Alan Degen to found Gulf

Geologist Fuels Consulting Biz by Drilling Deeper Into FileMaker Web Technology

FileMaker® Pro / WebDirect: FileMaker Web Subscription Service Keeps Oil Field and Reservoir Data Flowing to Prospectors 24/7 Just because your business involves fossil fuels, the technology you rely on doesn’t need to be a fossil too. A new FileMaker web solution brings new technology to finding an old resource.  In the United States, the average person consumes about 2.5 gallons of crude oil per day — or 22 barrels per year. Offshore oil production helps meet this need. According to the U

Basics Before You Purchase a WordPress Theme

WordPress Theme Considerations By: Fred Morgan WordPress originally began life as a blogging engine, but over time has matured into not only a great content management system (CMS), but also a full-fledged application development framework.  Consequently, WordPress holds the lion’s share of the CMS market and its widespread use has spurred the development of countless WordPress themes and plugins to extend its feature set.  However, not all WordPress themes and plugins are created equal

[FMP TnT] FileMaker Pro Hierarchical Portal Filtering 2.1

Hierarchical Portal Filtering using FileMaker Pro 15 By Andy Persons Way back in 1996/97, I developed my original hierarchical portal filtering technique using FileMaker Pro 3. Twenty years later, we decided to take another look and update it for FileMaker Pro 15. Several alternate approaches have been developed in the interim for the hierarchical portal filtering technique (including a “lite” approach by my colleague Doug West). After reviewing them, we believe the original approach s

FileMaker Pro Hierarchical Portal Filtering 2.1

Hierarchical Portal Filtering using FileMaker Pro 15 By Andy Persons Way back in 1996/97, I developed my original hierarchical portal filtering technique using FileMaker Pro 3. Twenty years later, we decided to take another look and update it for FileMaker Pro 15. Several alternate approaches have been developed in the interim for the hierarchical portal filtering technique (including a “lite” approach by my colleague Doug West). After reviewing them, we believe the original approach still ha

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