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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
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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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
Free webinar introducing Karbon our free application framework for building ambitious custom business applications. If you are interested in using the FileMaker Workplace Innovation Platform at a high level you'll probably want to see what we have cooked up.
The post Karbon Webinar – Getting Started appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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Part 2: What Should You Consider When Selecting a Development Partner? What Questions Might You Ask a Potential Developer?
Figuring out how to choose a great developer can be bewildering without some insight about what to look for. In this segment of our seven-part series on choosing and working with a custom app developer, we will eXplore some tips on how to vet developer candidates.
Hiring a developer is about creating a working relationship. You want someone who gets your business
Perform Script On Server (PSOS): Overview
The “Perform Script on Server” script step was introduced in FileMaker Server 13 to let clients of a hosted file run scripts on the server. So with some careful planning, you can have the server do a lot of the heavy lifting the client machine would normally have to do (finding, sorting, processing, other data manipulation, etc.). This means you can sometimes avoid moving large amounts of data over the network, which is what normally happens when the cl
<p><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/SlateOpenBookManagement1-295x300.jpg" /><br />Slate recently published a brief intro to the concept of Open Book Management. We have been practicing Open Book Management at Skeleton Key and our sister company, Brightsource IT, since 2009. Running "open book" has been a major factor in our success and it has become a huge part of our culture. We're fortunate to have a company made up of smart, passionate people. Open Book Management a
<p>Join us for App Spotlight: FileMaker — a special business event at the Apple Store, St.Louis Galleria on Wednesday, June 4th, 8:30am.<br /><img src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/AppSpotlight.png" /><br />FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Go make it easy for anyone to create custom business solutions for iPad and iPhone. At this event, presented by Mark Richman, learn how you can create a custom business solution for your business task. See how FileMaker apps running on iPad,
Schedules suck.
Each time we make a schedule, we do so despite two glaring problems:
1. It’s really tough to estimate or forecast any substantial development project. (That’s the long version of “schedules are useless”.) Looking at any large successful software project in hindsight your estimates and schedules appear naive if not ridiculous
2. We also can’t deny that schedules themselves (or is it deadlines?) are a huge cause of stress. Assuming the wrong time scale causes a ton of stress, bu
If you’ve been building layouts for Web Direct you’ve likely seen that Web Direct may draw your objects before conditional formatting or hiding are applied. This never happens in the desktop, where rendering is now double buffered on both Mac and Windows, but it happens frequently in Web Direct. The video below shows this in action and suggests one technique to make it less obvious.
The movie is taken from optimizing our Pro Calendar for Web Direct. We’re also rewriting SeedCode Complete for We
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<p>You are invited to join our local FileMaker User Group. This group is for experienced FileMaker Devs, FileMaker users who've poked around under the hood and want to dive into development, and anyone else who wants to learn more about FileMaker. We aim to cover general FileMaker development, advanced techniques, plugin integration, external data access, external tool integration, etc. It's reall
<h2 class="p1">Using FileMaker® Pro to move files without the use of a PlugIn!</h2>
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<p class="p1">This FileMaker Pro tip and trick shows a simple method of moving a file natively using FileMaker Pro, and works on both Mac and the PC/Win platforms. No plugins required.</p>
<p class="p1"><em>The idea for this Tip-n-Trick originated when building an updater that required files to be in a
Since layout redraw is one of the slowest things a Web Direct (WD) layout can do, you’ll want to do whatever you can to minimize those redraws (which can appear your users as flashing or as a spinning busy icons).
So, “do as little as possible”. This often means wrapping your commands in If() statements to see if they’re necessary. We don’t need to do this in Pro because we don’t notice things like “Revert Record” if they’re not needed. But in Web Direct, you really see Revert Record even if t
Doing some financial planning a few months ago, I was thinking about how to budget for all the stuff we’re trying to get done next year–remodeling on the house, some travel, finishing the van/mobile-office/surf wagon–and I just couldn’t get the numbers to come out right. I had this spreadsheet showing how much we’d have available each quarter but it just wasn’t working. And I was getting pretty stressed out about it.
But then I added 6 more months to my spreadsheet and everything balanced out.
<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
The FileMaker 13v2 update has generated a lot of excitement about the fmp: protocol now being available for running scripts in all deployment situations. Previously, locally running files handled the protocol differently than their Go and Hosted counterparts. This made some of us a little hesitant to use this powerful new technology.
However, it’s not just the UI power from Javascript that we get, although that certainly is the jewel. We also get access to a rich library of data manipulation
I’ve been thinking a lot about schedules lately–software production schedules, deadlines, sprint plans, etc.–and I ran into this from my Pause On Error session 4 years ago:
Below, I’ve proposed 8 “blockers” that, if true, seem to reinforce my skepticism that you can’t really share FileMaker development: that anything bigger than “one developer – one project – start to finish” starts to break down pretty quickly.
1. We have no accurate way to quantify the productivity of a developer.
2. Yet we
FileMaker zealot and all round good guy Egbert Friedrich is putting together the next European FileMaker Unconference, having previously run the successful Berlin PauseOnError in the past. The conference is open to one and all, across Europe and beyond. Berlin: 2nd – 4th June 2014 Where nhow Hotel, Stralauser Allee 3, 10245 Berlin Find out more here...
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The introduction of WebDirect at the expense of Instant Web Publishing has added a much enhanced toolset to the developers armoury. There are considerable improvements in function that can avoid the clunky, compromising and design limited results of an IWP solution. WebDirect offers the following specific feature improvements that are now supported where they were...
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“In our industry, we don’t get big game-changers very often.” – Jason Larson
Jason Larson’s sweet mod of GoMaps for Braun Electric.
We’re very psyched to see FileMaker, Inc. recognize Braun Electric’s very cool FileMaker Go deployment using GoMaps and GoZync. Read the full case study here.
Learn more about the SeedCode add-ons used in this solution:
GoMaps – plot your records on interactive, muti-pin google maps. Available for the desktop as ProMaps.
GoZync – reliable, scriptable sync
SeedCode’s ProMaps lets you add your own links to Google Maps: users can click on a pin and run your own FileMaker scripts–going to that pin’s record in your FileMaker layout, for example.
While ProMaps could always do this for hosted files, FileMaker’s 13v2 update now lets scripts like these run locally, not just when your FileMaker file is hosted. Learn more and download a ProMaps demo to see how this works.
If you haven’t downloaded the 13v2 update, you’ll want to do so now. This update ext
FM Starting Point 4 is a completely FREE FileMaker template designed for use with FileMaker® Pro 13, 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 24 years. FM Starting Point 4.0v2 comes with a number of fixes and improvements!
Feel free to download it now!
http://fmstartingpoint.com/
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I have recently learned that there may be any number of FileMaker Server installations world-wide that are hosting files that open automatically without credentials challenge to the [Full Access] Privilege Set. The default-installed FileMaker Server Sample File is one of these; however, there are others.
This is not such a good practice. Such files offer an attractive attack vector that a Threat Agent can use to inflict damage on the FileMaker Server machine or on its hosted files. If a Thr
As some people may or may not have known, I am Linear Blue’s other apprentice alongside Jacob Unsworth. I am the Web Development Apprentice whereas he is the FileMaker Developer Apprentice. Although we work closely together, even our desks are across from each other, we both have completely different skillsets and work in completely different...
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Todd Geist has put together a great video showing how imports will let you down when you’re syncing records. Tricky stuff, but the basics are very well explained in this video. (Import failing begins at 11:40)
FM13 demo file from Todd’s transaction demo; you can download this here.
Todd’s article/video also includes a pretty cool demo file for showing how the sync / import works. It’s not fully fleshed out (i.e. it’s a demo) but it’s unlocked and has got a really nice FM13 interface.
Of cou
Needless to say, we’re pretty psyched about what’s possible in Web Direct…
SeedCode’s Pro Calendar in Web Direct
Editing a record in Web Direct.
An alternate theme for the Pro Calendar in Web Direct.
Learn more about FileMaker’s Web Direct.
So when can I get it?
I’m Already Using SeedCode Calendar
Good news: the Web Direct add-on should be available as layouts and scripts you can paste into your existing copy of the Pro Calendar.
This will be a paid upgrade, but existing u
<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>
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