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FileMaker Kanban is the latest tool that offers familiar functionality for users and flexibility for the developer. It offers great functionality and organizes your data visually into lanes and cards.
The post FileMaker Kanban: Organize Your Data appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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The FileMaker Script Debugger is powerful. Its features are often overlooked. In this post we examine the buttons that control stepping through a script.
The post Like a Boss: Using the Script Debugger to its Full Potential appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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Hacking Your Own FileMaker Platform Solutions
Should FileMaker Platform developers mount hacking attacks on their own solutions? At first glance, this may seem an odd question. But I believe that the answer is “Yes, we should.”
Consider this. As developers we see our solutions from a totally different perspective than Threat Agents see them. Without practicing our own hacking skills, we can become blind to the vulnerabilities a Threat Agent can exploit to compromise the Confidentiality
For the first time, DB Services has been ranked #3494 on the annual Inc. 5000 list, which ranks the country’s “fastest-growing innovators” based on overall revenue growth over a three-year period. The Inc. 5000 list has brought attention to America’s growing private businesses since 1982.
DB Services now joins the ranks of other Inc. 5000 list alumni such as Facebook, Zappos, Pandora, and others. DB Services is top ranked FileMaker Platinum Business Alliance Partner on the 2019 Inc. 5000 li
Hi all,
Today I'm happy to announce the release of Elemental for FileMaker. This is a free fully unlocked solution containing some cool user interface and design stuff that I hope you find useful and can incorporate into your own solutions.
You can grab a copy now at https://www.elemental-fm.com
In Elementals first version you'll find the following:
Avatars
Over 20 API integrations with avatar generators. These are uniquely generated based on a name y
Had a chance to catch up with Angelo Luchi at Pause On Error and was very impressed with what he has planned for Foxtail Labs. “Labs” is a suite of hosted APIs that let FileMaker developers employ techniques that previously required plugins. The first lab involves using URLs to generate bar codes: vey useful for apps on FileMaker Go where plugins won’t run, but also makes sense on Pro for folks who don’t want to install or update plugins.
This was part of a big theme at Pause: leveraging File
<p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/blog/confidential-for-your-eyes-only"><br /><h1>Confidential! For Your Eyes Only...</h1>
<p></p></a><br />Sometimes as FileMaker developers we have to give back to the kids. Let me give you an example: </p>
<p>My daughter went through a phase where everything "spy" related was very cool. For her 9th birthday party, I dressed up as a CIA agent (suit, sunglasses, earbud com). So what mor
If you’re using SQL in your FM12 work, you’re in luck. Jason has released a new version of SQLexplorer that writes queries which survive field renaming.
It will also apply this abstraction to queries you simply type in there (vs ones you build with the wizard). Big step forward.
Still free and unlocked, the new version is here.
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Psyched that GoMaps is featured front and center on the FileMaker home page and in FileMaker’s iOS Showcase:
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The public-facing website SeedCode created for Blueprint Capitol was recently featured on UrbnLivn as a way for savvy Seattle home buyers to find new construction projects before they’re listed on the MLS.
The site uses FileMaker Pro and PHP to publish new projects, renderings, and photos from Blueprint’s ERP system to a slick, searchable public site.
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Has this ever happened to you? You have a number of identically named fields in two different tables… …but when you copy one of those fields from a layout based on the first table… … and paste it onto a layout based on the second one… …the result is not what you might have wished [...]
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 21, 2013 – FileMaker, Inc. today announced the FileMaker iOS Demo Solutions webpage, where businesses will find free downloadable demos that highlight custom iPad and iPhone solutions created using the FileMaker Platform. The sample solutions reflect a wide range of real-world iOS business uses and have been created by leading independent FileMaker developers.
The demos, which are limited in functionality or time, include solutions for event management, point of
FM Starting Point is a completely FREE FileMaker template designed for use with FileMaker® Pro 12, and is focused on small businesses, work groups, and non-profit organizations. These templates were built with the experience gained from working with these target groups for over 22 years.
This updated version includes many bug fixes that needed to be taken care of.
Feel free to download it now before it doubles in price!
http://fmstartingpoint.com/
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Pleased to announce that our latest template for FileMaker Go is nearly ready to ship… GoMaps lets you visualize found sets on a map, with full control over the pop-over contents, including showing photos from your records right in the map. Click on a pin to see the pop-over; click again to jump to that record in your own layout.
Unlocked and already plumbed for offline access with GoZync, our sync engine for FileMaker.
We’re proud to say that FileMaker has chosen GoMaps as one of their iOS S
<p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/blog/snow_day_technology_keeps_us_moving_and_working_update"><br /><h1>Snow Day: Technology That Keeps Us Moving and Working</h1>
<p></p></a><br /><i>Is technology working for you?</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/Blog/snowmancomputer.jpg<br />" align="right"><img width="237" height="213" src="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/Blog/snowmanco
I wanted to share a milestone in the history of RCC. Not that I turned 40… I did that already. RCC is now training its 40th college intern.
For those that are unaware of this… at any given time RCC is busy training a corp of college interns in the art of FileMaker. RCC interns spend many months learning database design work, programming, and even the more important aspect of project and customer management. They will take these skills plus many life lessons with them forever. Some of the i
Very psyched to see the schedule for Pause on Error coming together! Just recorded a podcast with Matt Navarre of FileMaker Talk about all we’re looking forward to.
Check it out: http://filemakertalk.com/
And stay in touch by following pauseonerror on twitter.
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A while back my youngest son, who is an avid Go player, asked me, “Is it true there are more possible Go games than there are atoms in the universe?” “Absolutely,” I replied, “Let’s fire up FileMaker Pro and prove it.” (I wasn’t about to let a rare teachable moment slip by.) “If memory serves, [...]
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Working on a GoZync integration with Jason this morning and remembered this troubleshooting trick Todd and I came up with. This lets you quickly find where a given operation happens in GoZync scripts. (Worth a quick watch.)
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We’ve added a new article to the GoZync docs describing how to turn off the automatic deletion of mobile records that no longer match the users’ pull criteria.
For users pulling very large found sets, this can radically speed up pulls down to their mobile device.
The article describes scenarios where this would help, and walks users though the (very simple) mods required. Again, thanks to Todd’s clean code, this can be as simple as changing a single line. (We should make a collection of our fa
Recently I received a dual-technique FileMaker 12 demo from Eden Morris. Here’s what he had to say about technique #1: In the Relationships Graph I show the use of colored labels to indicate where record creation, cascade deletes, and sorted relationships. Looking at the graph it easily shows that I can create customers from a [...]
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Editor’s note: Today I’m pleased to present a guest article by Michael Rocharde, author of FileMaker & Me, an interactive multimedia book focusing on FileMaker Interface Design. FileMaker has always been an incredible tool for generating reports and for many years, I used to have a report screen with banks of buttons to generate all [...]
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Unskilled and Unaware
Nearly fourteen years ago two Cornell University psychologists authored a definitive study titled Unskilled and Unaware of It. Their core thesis was that persons who were unskilled in any number of domains suffered a dual burden. They reach erroneous conclusions and make incorrect and unfortunate choices on the one hand. And second, their lack of knowledge and competence robs them of the ability to recognize their errors. They are incorrect; yet, they believe that they
Dear Reader, There’s an old saying that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but having experienced it first hand, I’m not feeling even remotely flattered. Pissed off? Yes. Violated? Yes. But not flattered, and not amused. Here’s the short version: Me: The Impostor: Here’s a longer version (and I hope you’ll read to the [...]
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How I got a list with data from MySQL in less than 1 second with a SQL VIEW - from an awful 20-25 seconds when going through relationships between multiple tables from the MySQL database.
My Filemaker solution is integrated with a MySQL database that has been highly normalized for different reasons.
This means that a simple list with 4 different fields can easily contain info from 4 different tables, where a couple of the relationships might span 3 tables. This made the performance in FM
