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eXcelisys' Blog

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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

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

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