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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
The FileMaker Let function is your tool to make a calculation readable, well formatted and easy to debug. Let us discuss how it can be used.
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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.
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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
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.
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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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John Sindelar will be presenting The Year in Review at this year’s FileMaker Developer Conference.
“I get to see so much cool work from other developers over the course of the year, I’m thrilled for this opportunity to showcase some of it. I’ll be highlighting what our peers are finding most valuable in the newest version of FileMaker 13, and demonstrating new techniques folks can put to work in their own files.”
“As always, the goal is to find ways to make your FileMaker solutions faster, si
“Q: How do we change the future?
A: Change the story people tell themselves about the future they will live in.”
“Seen through this lens, effective leadership is made up of of just two core disciplines:
Forging plausible, inspiring stories about the future we wish for ourselves, our families, our companies or our communities,
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Sharing those stories with people in a way that allows them both to embrace them, and to make them their own.”
From http://www.crashdev.com/2014/02/t
Over the last decade we’ve seen a huge amount of change in the way we use IT. This is everything from what we’re using mobile phones for to the games we play and everything in between. I did a presentation for a company a little over a year and a half ago which talked about...
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UPDATE 27 March: The demo file included with the article now supports Insert from URL ! Both plugin and Insert methods are available in the example file. The article has also been updated to reflect this.
When sending Email from FileMaker the most popular methods are the 'Send Mail' script step or a plugin. In this article we explore another method through using Mandrill - a free online service that is easy to setup and integrate into FileMaker. We go in depth in the article to explore wha
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<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
For those waiting to see what happens to the Node.js controlled Lego car, right now it is stuck in the pit lane waiting parts. I can say though that I have had fun linking up the motors and testing with my iPhone just a little teaser there. So what is this blog post all about....
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That’s the restroom key at DevLocal where FileMaker-Seattle meets.
Are we all just frustrated game developers? I know that’s what got me excited about computers and I wonder how much of that original impulse still motivates what we do. Is that why we’re so into the animations and effects afforded by FileMaker 13?
Is that why folks found FileMaker IWP so frustrating for so many years: because it could make nice *looking* apps but couldn’t make things that had nice behaviors? How does Web Direct
A grey fill on the active portal row. For years it has been something that simply 'was'. Well no longer. In FileMaker 13 we can finally easily eliminate this rather annoying design feature, and take back full control of portal fill colours...
Check out the full article here: http://www.teamdf.com/weetbicks/a-portal-grey-area/223/
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<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
Just updated our Dec 5 article on popover workarounds to include notes on conditionally opening popovers and telling when a popover is open.
Here’s the article.
Enjoy!
There’s more; click above to check out the whole article.
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I’m not talking about the superhero here; I’m talking about the video and animation creator and player that millions of people came to love and use on a daily basis. In its hay-day, flash was pretty much a system requirement for accessing the web. Many of the largest websites around would use Flash to relay...
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I decided to take a break from my story having started at Linear Blue around 6 months ago, as everything is settling down and becoming easier for me. Instead I’d like to talk about where we might be going in the future in terms of the technology we use day to day. As with all...
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Got this great screen shot in from Brent Foster at fastcuts.tv where they use our calendar layout to schedule video production…
Brent’s addition of Out, Room, Users, and Resource columns to the calendar
Most developers don’t take enough advantage of how easy it is to add columns to the day view of our Pro Calendar: easy and looks great. Thanks Brent.
• Learn more about our Pro Calendar add-on: built solely with FileMaker Pro scripts and layouts.
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Building FileMaker solutions for iOS introduces a new set of challenges for developers and requires UI controls that make it easy for users to interact. This article gives a very quick and simple technique you can use to make selecting tab controls much easier for FileMaker Go users on iPad and iPhone.
Read the full article here: http://www.teamdf.com/weetbicks/big-tabs/220/
FMI Security Webinar
On February 11th FileMaker, Inc. presented two webinars on FileMaker Platform Security. I am highly gratified that FileMaker, Inc. did this. These webinars, conducted by Consulting Systems Engineer Rosemary Tietge, clearly laid out the case for following Best Practices for securing files and their data across all elements of the FileMaker Platform.
I want to expand on a number of recommendations about enhancing FileMaker file security from those webinars. By way
