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Part 2: What Should You Consider When Selecting a Development Partner? What Questions Might You Ask a Potential Developer?
Hiring a developer is about creating a working relationship. You want someone who gets your business and gets you. Having a good working relationship often determines the success or failure of a development project. Hire someone you are comfortable with who also has the skills necessary to make your project successful. Beyond the quality of the working relationsh
Michael Layne from Gearbox Solutions presents on FileMaker’s new JSON functions. He does a deep dive into FileMaker’s new JSON functions and demos several examples of how they are using JSON for passing parameters, populating form data, validation and rollback, managing session info such as value lists as global. Michael also demos REST client and REST server with new data API.
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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
FileMaker offers many different options for charting, but if you need a chart that is not available in FileMaker, you should consider using Google Charts. Google Charts is a free Javascript framework that can be used in conjunction with web viewers in FileMaker to extend your charting capabilities: https://dbservices.com/articles/google-charts-in-filemaker/
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WidgetStudio makes it easy to use, design and share powerful interface widgets, like calendars, gauges, charts, and timers. Pick from the constantly growing set of included widgets or build your own. Freely share them with your customers or friends.
The post Announcing WidgetStudio – FileMaker WebViewer Widgets appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Zoom Lock
Welcome to the third post in my blog series about Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout. This entry will cover Locking the Zoom Level on Filemaker Go Layouts.
The previous posts in the series covered:
Understanding scroll lock
Basic Go Layout Sizing
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Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Understanding Scroll Lock
This is the first blog post in a series about Creating a Fundamental Layout for use in FileMaker Go. The goal of this series is to offer practical advice and specific instructions for creating FileMaker Go layouts that look and act the way you, and your users, expect.
The first topic we'll cover in the series is 'Understanding Scroll Lock'.
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This is the first in a series of articles that will present some useful and time saving tidbits for various areas of FileMaker. In this first article we focus on layout mode. There is no rhyme or reason, no common theme - just an assortment of our favorite time-savers, shortcuts, tips, hints, tricks, tools of the trade and more…
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Recently I was doing some FileMaker training with my older son; we were looking at the “DayOfWeek” function in the data viewer, and I showed him that… DayOfWeek ( Date ( 1 ; 22 ; 2012 ) ) …returns a 1, since this particular date falls on Sunday, and FileMaker considers Sunday to be the [...]
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The release of FileMaker Go has added a new variable to the equation we use when considering whether to use a FileMaker plug-in. We are experiencing a big shift to mobile solutions. Within less than a year ignoring the iOS platform became an unforgivable mistake for every FileMaker developer. When creating a new solution, adding...
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Matthew Hardy of Real Estate Success Tools has put together a great video showing off how he’s using Zulu to link iCal and Google Calendar to his application.
Great overview and a link to the video here.
And if you haven’t seen his solution, REST, before, take some time to check out the site: it’s really well done. And as Matthew says, between Zulu and FileMaker his users can now interact with REST from any platform.
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Have you ever right-clicked into a field (or Ctrl-clicked if on a Mac) and chosen Find Matching Records? It works remarkably well, but oddly enough, there is no scripted equivalent for this command. Of course if we do a Find Matching Records and then invoke Modify Last Find… …we can see what FileMaker is doing [...]
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FileMaker's Developer Tools: A Love-Hate Relationship
FileMaker is a great platform for development and I owe most of my professional success to its success. There are some things about FileMaker Pro that I love and, of course, as with any passionate relationship, there are a few things I would like to see improved. This article will strive to expose my passionate feelings about certain developer features in FileMaker Pro that I both love, and hate, with equal verve.
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FileMaker Training: Wherever You Are
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Skeleton Key will kick off its 2012 FileMaker online training schedule this week with FileMaker Server 101. Take a look at the line up of trainings available for you to attend from your desk, home office, or anywhere you've got a good internet connection.
Sometimes a seemingly-simple FileMaker challenge turns out to be more nuanced and educational than first impressions might indicate. This happened recently when I was asked to help make a scripted search behave properly. Most of the time, the existing routine worked correctly, but on certain records it would fail. The challenge: Click a button to [...]
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For members who have been blogging on the site - many of you have or maintain an external blog. Initially when we set up the forum we allowed external blog link all that did was redirect a visitor to your actually blog, and counted how many times that link was clicked.
I have since disabled external blog links but I have enabled RSS Import of external blogs - This way entries of your blogs can be imported as they occur. (10 per day)
and you get the benefit of having view counts on each o
…are great. Of course. And necessary. Of course. Too often i spend time and energy railing against the powers that be to change their application/service/website to meet my individual needs. “This app should let me do this! Why doesn’t it? Will there be an update to address this? I should write support and have them [...]
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Awww, scratch that last post, as yet another thing has gone wrong with this horrific ‘easy’billing database. Now the invoice numbers aren’t updating – we had this problem before but the solution was ?? – it just fixed itself magically, as far was we could tell. I how to buy prescription drugs without a prescription [...]
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Sometimes someone else posts the definitive piece. Read this blog post by Lee Lukeheart, founder of Savvy Data, for the skinny on Filemaker and Gmail.
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Sometimes you need to add a field to an existing database that should have values for all the already existing records in the table. Say you’ve added a new field on an existing database. It’s not a calc field, but will have an auto-entered calculation field that will always be filled out. For example, in [...]
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or even use an old one… just HAVE a plan, and STICK to it. A few thoughts for the next time we make a brand new database: We should set some strict naming and formatting conventions so that all the names used for tables, field, layouts and scripts use the same rules, allowing us to [...]
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It’s funny how things I’ve studied thoroughly do not necessarily register themselves in my brain as useful knowledge until I’ve made use of them. In working with Filemaker, and learning it in a somewhat haphazard way, it’s cool to observe how I learn. First off, I started by reading many books and stuff on Filemaker [...]
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We’ve got a few websites based on WordPress. They’re little sites and have been hosted with GoDaddy since launch. GoDaddy is cheap, cheap, cheap, and good enough for the sites we’ve had up. But we want to drive more traffic to those sites, take hosting control of a couple other more complicated sites, and get [...]
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The client is running Magento 1.1.8. Magento was installed and configured a couple years ago by another company. The client wants to change the way shipping is calculated. There are three types of shipping each with a single fixed price:, Ground ($12), 2nd Day Air ($35) and 2nd Day Air Oversized ($65). Samples of the [...]
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We are trying to move our website to a new hosting company (godaddy is SLOW and not very easy to use – and, as we just found out, VERY RESTRICTIVE). We researched a bunch online and found that a good way to move a wordpress site safely (and with little or no downtime) is to [...]
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Gas, Liquid, or Solid: Drive On
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Steven H. Blackwell
January 3rd 2012
Happy New Year to FileMaker developers and users around the world. We have a lot of work to do in the FileMaker World in 2012, and I am eager to get started.
A very key element and requirement for the reliable and safe deployment of FileMaker Pro files is, of course, FileMaker Server. And, of all the components of a FileMaker Server deployment, none is more important, I woul
