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[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

FileMaker Go Drives Cattle Feed Firm into the 21st Century

Custom Mobile App Puts iPads Out to Pasture (Literally) A farmer loads liquid feed from a distillery in Owensboro, KY, 1938 / Russell Lee, U.S. Farm Security Administration Cattle farmers have been using liquid feed supplements for more than a century. The practice is not new. What has changed over time, though, is the delivery process and precision with which dealers can custom formulate liquid feeds to meet the specific needs of individual livestock herds. Decades ago, farmers squ

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

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

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 d

FileMaker Go Takes Center Stage with Scrub Management Solution

FileMaker Go Takes Center Stage with Scrub Management Solution Kiosk System Cuts Costs, Boosts Compliance Thanks to Custom iPad App Medical facility managers are always looking for ways to bend the cost curve and ensure compliance with all of the regulations faced on a daily basis — while at the same time safeguarding patient care. Sai Systems Technologies understands this operational predicament and strives to provide compliance management systems to the healthcare industry to ease the burd

Sharing Some WordPress Basics, Now You Know!

Consider these next several paragraphs a crash course in WordPress basics, one of the most widely-used web tools available today.  So the next time you’re at that dinner party, and the IT guy starts blathering on about “post categories” and “child themes”, you’ll be prepared.   (You’re welcome.) Okay, we’ll admit it.  We love web technology.  It’s what we do most of our working day.  And one of our favorite web tools is WordPress. Sure, you’ve heard of WordPress (www.wordpress.com), but maybe

FileMaker Developer Conference Interview 2016 in Las Vegas with Christo

FileMaker Developer Conference Interview with Christo – eXcelisys Always hard to see yourself on video… That being said it was a very casual (tad impromptu) and fun exchange with Don Clark from FileMakerProGurus.com. Thank you Don for the opportunity.     I must make note that there was some incorrect information from interpretation by the interviewer in the notes of the video: I was not involved, nor did I work on or for, the movie Jurassic Park – the company I worked for, Dinamation In

Using Git, Even as a Solo Developer

Why You Should Consider Using Git, Even If You Are a Solo Developer by: Fred Morgan If you work with open source software then I’m sure you have already learned how challenging the process of upgrading applications can be (if not, you will soon enough). After recently upgrading a Drupal 7 installation for a client, I found an issue with the way links were being rendered in a particular view (the query string parameters were being mysteriously removed). The settings in the view had not been cor

FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick: Real-Time QuickFind

FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick: Real-Time QuickFind by: David Thorp R… Re… Rem… Reme… Remem… Rememb… Remembe… Remember… …what life was like before instant search on the web became the norm? We had to actually type out whole words and phrases, hit the pesky “return” key and THEN look at the results. Then maybe type in more words and phrases and search again if the results weren’t quite to our liking. Just like us, our users have come to take instant-search for granted. Search results

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

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