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FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick: Simple Column Sort

FileMaker® Pro Tip-n-Trick: Smart & Simple Column Sort By: RJ Carroll One of the most-requested features from FileMaker Pro developers is a one-click simple column sort. Trying to sort out how to sort can be a tricky business. The typical way to implement column sort from list-view is by using buttons above each column. First, the user calls a script by clicking on a field name in the column header. Usually, the script includes a number of hard-coded “Sort Records” steps.  Then, the script

DevCon 2016 – eXcelisys Vendor Session: Tantalizing Tips-n-Tricks from the Trenches

DevCon 2016 – eXcelisys Vendor Session: Tantalizing Tips-n-Tricks from the Trenches Attend the eXcelisys vendor session on Wednesday July, 20 2016 from 2:00pm – 3:15pm The eXcelisys vendor session will be lead by our very own Mr. Doug West and assisted by some of the eXceptional eXcelisys FileMaker Pro talent. With a team of developers working on thousands of projects over the last 14+ years, we’ve stood our ground against a variety of challenging customer requirements. eXcelisys, a FileMaker

Introduction to WordPress Custom Post Types

Intro to WordPress Custom Post Types Welcome to the exciting world of WordPress Custom Post Types! If you have spent any time working with WordPress you know that a basic WordPress site is primarily made up of Pages and Posts. You have probably also noticed that there isn’t a ton of difference between Pages and Posts. Both have similar input fields: a title, some body text, and possibly a featured image. In fact, the main content of a Page or a Post is stored in the very same database table dis

FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick: FileMaker Pro Progress Bars, Gantt-Man

FileMaker Pro Progress Bars, chapter 5: Gantt-Man By Andy Persons In which nothing can Bar our intrepid code from Progressing to Uncharted territory! We received an interesting variety of responses to our FileMaker Pro Progress Bars demo files. Can you make it show an image for the foreground? How about an animated gif? It’s too blurry; can you sharpen it up? Any chance it can do my taxes? One of the requests that piqued our interest was the ability to have the foreground color appear in the

FileMaker Pro Review; an intuitive user experience

I was recently asked by another site to do a FileMaker Pro review, so I think it only fitting to share it here for our readers as well. 🙂 By David Thorp   What do you like best about FileMaker Pro? FileMaker Pro takes the core tasks involved with managing, storing and processing information and simplifies them into an intuitive user experience. The best thing about FileMaker Pro is how broadly useful it can be to almost anyone with nearly any level of technical skill. Even as a seasoned File

FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick: Hide-n-Seek a Button in a FileMaker Pro Portal Row

Ready to Play Hide and Seek with a Button in a FileMaker Pro Portal Row? By Rob Poelking I just figured this out and thought it was cool enough to share with you. It’s pretty commonplace to put a button over a FileMaker Pro portal row object to trigger an event related to that particular row. But sometimes you don’t want a button across the entire row. So then we typically put a visual button off to the side like an “edit” button, but the result can be unsightly seeing “edit” repeated a dozen

Video – Quick Single-Double Click Trick

Video: FileMaker Pro Tip -n- Trick: Quick Single-Double Click Trick   Video By Richard Carlton Consulting & Content Provided by eXcelisys RCC came across Andy’s FileMaker Pro Tip -n- Trick single-double click quick demo file and loved the simplicity of how it helps you add the ability to support a double-click on objects within FileMaker Pro. He thought this FileMaker Pro tip -n- trick was so ingenious and simple, that he asked us if he could make a video that would explain fo

Double-Single Click Trick

FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick: A Double-Single Click Trick By Andy Persons A nice little FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick showing you a double-single click trick! Have you ever wanted to add support for double-clicking in your FileMaker Pro solutions? FileMaker Pro doesn’t currently support that natively, but various workarounds have been created over the years. Unfortunately, none of the techniques I found support exclusive actions. BOTH the single and double-click actions occur when t

Tip-n-Trick: Gotcha’s When Assigning and Using Variables

Gotcha’s When Assigning and Using Variables   by Andy Frazier   “Learn from the master, you must!”   "alt="Programming Languages" width="300" height="192" />               If you do any development outside of FileMaker Pro (and trust me, if only to learn different ways of approaching problems, you really should), you know that there’s a “gotcha” when assigning and using variables. In several languages, you can assign a variable like this: $myvariable = ‘my value'

How to Video: Integrate a Progress Bar into your FileMaker Pro 13 Solutions

<p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>How to Video: Integrate a Progress Bar into your FileMaker Pro 13 Solutions</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h4><em>By Richard Carlton Consulting</em></h4> <p>&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<br />While developing videos for their FileMaker Pro video course (www.learningfilemaker.com) … RCC ran into our cool FileMaker Pro 13 progress bar demo file done by Andy Persons that helps you create and integrate

FileMaker Webinar – Getting Rid of Paper-based Processes

<h4>Presented by; Doug West, Kurt Knippel, and Christo</h4> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>Getting Rid of Paper-based Processes using the FileMaker Platform</h3> <p>More businesses today are seeking alternatives to legacy paper-based processes. Companies of all sizes are replacing photocopiers with iPads, reducing storage costs, and severely improving data collection time and accuracy with efficient solutions that automate and empower their local and mobile

FileMaker Pro Tips-n-Tricks: A New Home-Page for FileMaker Server 13

<h3>FileMaker Pro Tips-n-Tricks: A New Home-Page for FileMaker Server 13</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h4><b style="color: #000000;">Über Awesome Sauce for FileMaker Server 13</b></h4> <p style="color: #000000;">We’re going to take the original default index page on your FileMaker Server 13, and replace it with something a little more interesting, and a lot more useful.</p> <p style="color: #000000;">As I’m sure you’ll recognize

FileMaker Pro Progress Bar V3

V3 FileMaker Pro Progress Bar – Gangsta with Gradients! OK, one last riff on progress bars! The V2 FileMaker Pro Progress Bar demo file showed how to have the bar change color based on the percentage, such as changing the entire bar from green to yellow to red as the percentage increased. That approach has some good uses (showing how full a container is, for instance), but some people had something else in mind: having the bar incrementally change color as it progressed. In other words, a g

FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick – V2 FileMaker Pro Progress Bar

<h4 style="color: #000000;">By Andy Persons</h4> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2 style="color: #000000;">The Next Generation of the FileMaker Pro Progress Bar Using base64</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: #000000;">After we posted the FileMaker Pro 13 Progress Bar demo file using a base64 image last December, one frequent request we received was for a way to have the bar change color based on its percentage. For example, changing from gr

FileMaker DevCon 2014 Excelisys Vendor Session : Explore the BT4 and More!

<h4>Excelisys Vendor Session at FileMaker DevCon 2014</h4> <h4>Tuesday July 29th from 9am-10:15AM in the Periwinkle Room</h4> <h4>Let’s Explore the BT4 and More!</h4> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>With over 100K downloads, the Excelisys Business Tracker has become an essential tool for many successful businesses. You can check out the latest enhancements and learn some additional cool tips-n-tricks as we explore the next rev of this efficient

Excelisys seeks to hire a WordPress Developer

<p style="color: #000000;">Excelisys Inc., is an international organization of talented, self–motivated individuals who specialize in business &amp; software consulting services, custom software design &amp; development, and software integration and repair. We have provided a variety of individuals, companies, organizations, and industries worldwide with innovative and diverse custom database software application development services. A cut to the chase: The solutions we create on

FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick: Easy-Bake FileMaker Pro 13 Audit Trail

<h3></h3> <h3>FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-nTrick: Easy-Bake FileMaker Pro 13 Audit Trail</h3> <p><em>By: Doug West</em></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;">There are many ways to implement audit logs in FileMaker Pro 13, but I’m always on the lookout for the method with the least overhead. If you don’t need separate records in another table for every field change, </span>then you can keep track of field changes using FileMaker 1

FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick: FileMaker Pro 13 Popover Close in One Script

Simple FileMaker Pro 13 Popover Close in One Script By: David Thorp Yes, this is a common nuisance. Although it depends on what you want to use it for. The intended use for popovers is what is commonly seen on iOS (and more and more websites are picking it up as time goes by) – for example the iCloud tabs and bookmarks popovers in iOS Safari. Eg. for bookmarks: You tap the bookmarks icon, it pops down a popover with the list of bookmarks in it, you choose one, and it goes away.

FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick: Using Remote Volumes to Host Files in FileMaker Server 13

<h2>Using Remote Volumes to Host Files in FileMaker Server 13</h2> <p><em>By Rob Poelking</em></p> <p>After a discouraging loss of work due to a virtual machine image crashing, I looked deeper into the FileMaker Server 13 user guide and discovered that FileMaker Server 13 is now supporting hosting files from a mounted network volume. You still cannot back up files to a remote volume but being able to serve from a remote folder would have saved my wor

FileMaker Pro Tips and Tricks: Moving Files Without a PlugIn

<h2 class="p1">Using FileMaker® Pro to move files without the use of a PlugIn!</h2> <h3>By Rob Poelking,</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="p1">This FileMaker Pro tip and trick shows a simple method of moving a file natively using FileMaker Pro, and works on both Mac and the PC/Win platforms. No plugins required.</p> <p class="p1"><em>The idea for this Tip-n-Trick originated when building an updater that required files to be in a

Excelisys is recognized as a FileMaker Business Alliance Platinum Member!

<p>&nbsp;</p> <div id="attachment_1129" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://developer.filemaker.com/search/platinum/?flag_platinum=1&amp;country[0]=US&amp;country[1]=CA&amp;country[2]=MX" target="_blank"><img class="wp-image-1129 size-medium" src="http://www.excelisys.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FBA_PLATINUM_4C-300x114.jpg" alt="Excelisys FBA platinum partner member" width="300" height="114" /></a><p

FileMaker Pro Tips and Tricks – Setting Portal Color, By Rob Poelking

<p><strong>Setting Portal Color</strong>, By Rob Poelking</p> <p>Here is a little FileMaker Pro Tip and Trick… Have you tried setting the color or opacity of your portal object only to find that it doesn’t seem to take? That happened to me and it took looking at the CSS to realize that while my Portal object was set to clear, the portal row was set to opaque white. The portal background colors are controlled by 7 different styles: the portal ( normal, hover, press

FileMaker Developer Conference 2014 explores “Business without Boundaries” using the FileMaker 13 Platform

<p><a href="http://www.filemaker.com/developers/devcon/"><img class=" wp-image-1120 alignleft" alt="FileMaker Developer Conference" src="http://www.excelisys.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/devcon_14_banner_horz.png" width="223" height="93" /></a></p> <h3>More than 70 expert-led sessions about building custom solutions for iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac and the web – plus a hackathon!</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

EXCELISYS PROMOTES DOUG WEST TO VP OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND PARTNER

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>South Bend, IN – March 20, 2014</strong> – Christo, Founder/President of Excelisys, Inc. (www.excelisys.com), a leading full service custom software development firm, announced the promotion of Doug West to VP of Product Development and Partner of the custom business application design, development, and consulting organization.</p> <p>“Doug has shown tremendous team adhesion, his clients love him, he stays on top of the l

FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick: A Custom Order Without The Wait

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Here is a nice little FileMaker Pro 13 Tip</strong> – Do you keep your custom functions in FileMaker Pro 13 sorted by a “Custom Order”? If so, then I’m sure you’ve noticed that new or duplicated functions appear at the bottom of the list. Moving the new item near the top of a long list of custom functions can take more than just a few seconds. Repeat this a few times a day and it gets pretty annoying, right?&l

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