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eXcelisys' Blog

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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

FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick – Let’s free-base64 on a Status Progress Bar!

<p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>Hey man, Free-base64 is cool with this FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick of Creating a Progress Status Bar</h2> <p>&nbsp;<br />Or for those who are true nerdy geeks -</p> <h2>All your base64 are belong to us, But We’ll Share this FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick of Creating a Progress Status Bar</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><em><b>Andy Persons shares his first </b><b>FileMaker

FileMaker Go – Dynamic Script Triggers

<h2>Using Dynamic Script Triggers in FileMaker Go</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><b><i>What?</i></b></h3> <p>It was a couple years ago that I was introduced to dynamic script triggering in a video by Matt Petrowski. The basic premise is that you maintain a table with the names of scripts and a label that is presented in a portal view on a layout. You attach a script to an object in that portal and triggering that button would in

FileMaker Pro 13 Platform is Released!

<h2>FileMaker launches FileMaker 13 Platform – enables teams to easily create custom business solutions for iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac and the web</h2> <p><em>Features FileMaker WebDirect: Breakthrough technology for running custom business solutions in a web browser</em></p> <p>SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Dec. 3, 2013 – FileMaker, Inc. today unveiled the next-generation platform for business productivity: <a href="http://www.filemaker.com/r/beatles">

FileMaker Pro Code 39 Barcode Generator: Without Fonts or Plug-Ins!

<h2>Using FileMaker Pro to generate Code 39 barcodes without the need for fonts or plug-ins.</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>By <a href="http://www.excelisys.com/our-team-custom-database-consultants.php" target="_blank">Doug West</a>, Product/Project manager for <a href="http://www.excelisys.com" target="_blank">Excelisys</a>.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><span style="font-size: 13px;">Yet another FREE </spa

Excelisys Releases The eX-BizTracker 4!

Excelisys Releases The BizTracker 4, a Jump-Start Template That Dramatically Advances FileMaker Pro® Customization South Bend, IN – November 11, 2013 – Excelisys, Inc., (www.excelisys.com) announced the release of The eX-BizTracker 4, the next generation of the popular flagship eX-File business productivity template for small- to medium-sized businesses. The eX-BizTracker 4 maximizes the latest innovations in FileMaker Pro® 12, resulting in a much leaner customizing tool which is easier t

We Love Clients Like Terry!

We are all used to everyone thinking what we do is “easy”. “Shouldn’t take you more than a couple of minutes” is a familiar dictation from some of our self-declared savvy patrons who have voiced in on a chore or task that we know consists of hours and not minutes. So it is refreshing when you get those far and few between letters from a first-rate client who has a sense of humor, has their feet firmly planted on the ground, and are plugged into reality. Since this was such a great communication

FileMaker Pro Recursion PT 3 – A Wrinkle in Timeliness: The Final Reckoning

FileMaker Pro Recursion PT 3 - A Wrinkle in Timeliness: The Final Reckoning, By Andy Persons In my first post of this three part series, I posed a challenge: how do you update hundreds or thousands of tasks interconnected with tens of thousands of connections? In my second installment, we explored a possible solution: recursively looping through each task from the end-level tasks, tracing each one to its source, then returning back down the stack and updating the dates along the way. Howe

FileMaker Pro Development is Not ALL Fun and Games, Or Is It!?

Serious FileMaker Pro® Development. Tic-Tac-Toe: A Challenge of Unspoken Requirements In a recent FileMaker Pro development stress-relieving exercise, our FileMaker Pro developers were offered a simple challenge to create a Tic-Tac-Toe game using FileMaker Pro while following a few basic requirements: The Quality must be apparent in the user interface. It doesn’t have to look stunning…just clean, consistent, fun and professional. Creativity should be apparent behind the scenes. Step out o

Excelisys’ eX-BizTracker 4 Goes Public Beta!

The eX-BizTracker 4 Goes Public Beta! The eX-BizTracker 4 is now out for public beta testing, ready for you to put it through its paces! If you were one of the 100,000 plus people who downloaded eX-BizTracker v3.0, you might recall that FileMaker® Pro template or jump-start solution’s attractive GUI and feature set. You might also remember fondly the advantage it gave your company, or if you were a consultant looking for a quick way to get something for your clients, how easy it was to custom

Perfecting FileMaker Pro Recursion & Virtualization Part 2

A Wrinkle in Timeliness Pt 2 – Perfecting FileMaker Pro Recursion & Virtualization, by Andy Persons of Excelisys Perfecting FileMaker Pro Recursion & Virtualization Part 2 explores the use of recursion and virtualization (through global variables) in solving complex data interconnectivity challenges using FileMaker Pro 12 in a multi-user client-server environment. Using a specific case study of an Excelisys project/client in the medical manufacturing industry, Andy discusses and demons

A Wrinkle in Timeliness – Perfecting FileMaker Recursion & Virtualization

A Wrinkle in Timeliness – Perfecting FileMaker Recursion & Virtualization, by Andy Persons of Excelisys A Wrinkle in Timeliness Pt1 of 4 – Perfecting FileMaker Recursion & Virtualization, by Andrew Persons explores the use of recursion and virtualization (through global variables) in solving complex data interconnectivity challenges using FileMaker Pro 12 in a multi-user client-server environment. Using a specific case study of an Excelisys project/client in the medical manufacturing

Creating User Specific Reports Using FileMaker Pro Privilege Sets

Creating User Specific Reports Using FileMaker Pro Privilege Sets If you’ve ever wanted to generate specific reports for different groups of users, but are intimidated by FileMaker’s, somewhat complicated security schema, this PDF shows you an alternative methodology that is very simple and easy to implement, using FileMaker Pro privilege sets. Recently a client, a large bail bond company, wanted to be able to add reports easily, that could only be viewed by specific employees, and without h

HierarchyLite – FileMaker Pro 12 Tips and Tricks Demo!

HierarchyLite - FileMaker Pro® 12 Tips and Tricks Demo of a Simplified Approach to Hierarchal Portals! Another FREE FileMaker Pro 12 Tips and Tricks Demo file showing an even more simplified approach to hierarchal portals by Doug West, Product/Project manager of Excelisys. Doug has now made this advanced technique, originally developed by our own Andy Persons, even easier! “HierarchyLite” is an EXcellent FREE FileMaker Pro 12 Tips and Tricks demo file which outlines how to create those cool h

FileMaker Pro 12 Tips and Tricks, Using ZipTastic Web Service to retrieve City, State, Country.

From Excelisys by Doug West, Product/Project Manager, a Free FileMaker Pro 12 Tip and Trick demo to retrieve City, State, Country with just a Zip code using a web service called Ziptastic. Basic demonstration of accessing a web service called “Ziptastic” from within FileMaker Pro 12 to retrieve City, State, Country with a Zip using the insert from URL script step introduced in FileMaker Pro 12 (no plug-ins!). The web service provides the corresponding city, state, and country for a given ZIP C

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