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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
I collect all the new calendars for iOS, even the terribly strange ones (for example, try to use–or to even pronounce–”Schelandars“).
Add an event in iCalendar
One of my favorites is currently iCalendar which has a nice clean display and a simple interface for linking contacts and places to an event.
Of course any of these iOS calendars can show events from FileMaker if you’re using SeedCode Subscribe: once you add a Subscribe URL as a source on your iPhone it’s available to any calendar
Our blog re-sent some notifications for a few old posts this morning: sorry for the unwanted email. Not quite sure what happened as we received them also.
I apologize for the interruption.
- John
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FileMaker, Inc. has just published a case study featuring GoZync; it highlights the mobile solution SeedCode built for Blueprint Capital. Blueprint is one of the largest residential construction lenders in Seattle and their whole lending practice is run from a FileMaker solution named Blueprint Connect™.
Blueprint Mobile: offline inspections synced to FileMaker Server
Read FileMaker’s
GoZync Case Study
. Details follow for developers considering adding
GoZync
to their own solutions…
Leverage your FileMaker Audit Logs
Here is a common reporting request: the customer has a project with a status field that changes over time. They’d like a report that shows what the status of the project was on a given date in the past. This can be pretty hard to do if you hadn’t anticipated this request to begin with. Fortunately, running a FileMaker audit log isn’t that tough and makes answering questions like this much simpler.
In our case we had been running a version of Ray Cologon’s Ult
Responsive design is something you may have heard about in recent months but may not know exactly what it means or what it’s meant to do. With the way the web is now shaping, Responsive design is something that is key to any online business’s continued survival. So, what is responsive design? A responsively designed...
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Welcome back, in Part 1 I started talking about what it’s been like for me to start learning FileMaker. Today I talk about about what my impressions are having had some experience, what the future might hold, and what I’m expecting to find along the way. Part 2 I’m now three months down the line...
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Over the past 10 or more years JavaScript has existed as a means of aiding developers in manipulating the DOM or Document Object Model of web browsers, to this day not much has changed, except that JavaScript has grown up and become more powerful. The biggest bugbear with JavaScript was the differences in behaviour between...
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Last day of our Year-End Sale.
Get a head start in 2014: all SeedCode offerings are on sale for 25% off through Dec 31. That includes upgrades and additional licenses. So if your solution is growing, or you’d like to quickly add some value for your users, consider bolting on some SeedCode in the new year.
And if you’re new to all this, dive in with some of our free stuff. Both the free versions of our Calendar and of GoZync let you add real value to your solutions while learning more about how
Fish. Shredder. Catch the People.
Yes, that is the actual name of the game I made with my 5yr old son. It’s a good name. =)
Go play. Requires Chrome. Spacebar to fire. (Good luck)
Something that I remember fondly as a child was spending hours in front of my Nintendo playing every game I could get my hands on. My classmates and I would even fantasize about making our own video game and drew out some very crude game designs to show off our great ideas. So when I was trying to brainstorm some
Making FileMaker 13 Buttons Easy to Modify
FileMaker 12 and 13 give us a lot of new tools for making buttons look great. But if you want to use both an icon and text in your button you’ll need to make some tough decisions as this isn’t well supported out of the box.
The main issue is that while you can use an image as the fill for a button, you can’t position it to the left or right of the button’s text. This means a lot of folks are making their buttons completely in Photoshop–and making a se
Having developed some solutions for iOS devices over recent months in FileMaker 12 I thought I’d reflect on the recent enhancements provided by the release of FileMaker 13. Clearly FileMaker have put considerable emphasis on the ability to quickly deploy efficient solutions that behave as though they were an integral component of either iPad or...
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There are several ways of generating a bar code in FileMaker, the main ones being, a formatted field with a barcode font or using a plugin. The difference being that plugins give more control over the attributes and return a graphic. If you want to generate a QR code there is no font option but we...
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<h2>Hey man, Free-base64 is cool with this FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick of Creating a Progress Status Bar</h2>
<p> <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>
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<h3><em><b>Andy Persons shares his first </b><b>FileMaker
One of the less obvious, but exciting new features in FileMaker 13 is the two new clauses available in FileMaker’s SQL syntax. It’s less obvious, because you need to read the new FileMaker SQL Reference Guide to see they’ve been added.
(Here is the FileMaker 13 SQL Reference. All FM13 docs are here.)
The new clauses are OFFSET and FETCH FIRST. We’ve been asking for these functions in the FMSQL engine since the plug-in days, and they’re finally here. They give you the ability to slice your r
More Fun with FileMaker Animations: Slide Panels
http://www.seedcode.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AnimatedSwitch.mp4
By carefully positioning images within slide panels we can get a nice animated effect when clicking a simple switch.
This doesn’t use any tricky code, just a very careful placement of the image inside a slide control whose radius has been set to match that of the switch image.
Just like a regular button, we use a simple script to set the field value our switch represents–th
Start the new year with the tools you need. All SeedCode products are on sale for 25% off through Dec 31. That includes upgrades and additional licenses. So if your solution is growing, or you’d like to quickly add some value for your users, consider bolting on some SeedCode in the new year.
And if you’re new to all this, dive in with some of our free stuff. Both the free versions of our Calendar and of GoZync let you add real value to your solutions while learning more about how SeedCode uses
<h2>Using Dynamic Script Triggers in FileMaker Go</h2>
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<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
Web & HTML standardisation has been a big talking point over the last year with HTML5 now moving into candidate recommendation and becoming very well supported across all the latest major browsers. But why is standardising the web so important? Where do the standards come from? To start explaining why standards are so important for...
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Popovers are one of my favorite things in FileMaker 13. Like tab panels and slide controls they’re a region within a layout, but unlike our other enclosures they don’t take up any space when they’re not in use. We love them. But they have a couple of unexpected behaviors you’ll want to be aware of as you start putting popovers to work.
FileMaker 13 Popover Bugs
Selecting a customer in a popover. From the “invoices” starter solution.
Issue in Web Direct: Portal buttons fail in all but the
FileMaker 13 Slide Controls + Refresh Object = Faster Layouts
For starters, don’t forget about the new script step “Refresh Object”– I did.
I had some icons whose “hide” status was based on the visibility calc :
GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( “Home” ; “isFrontPanel” )
Using a single panel as a refresh enclosure.
Now, isFront doesn’t just evaluate as slide panels move around so I’d added a Refresh Window script step to get them to behave. However, the new script step “Refresh Object” app
<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">
Hiding FileMaker Objects: The Old Way
Before FileMaker 13 there was no native way to make an object conditionally visible. And sometimes it seems like we developers spent an inordinate amount of our time working around issues of “reflow” and “visibility”: getting objects to slide into the position vacated by now absent objects, and getting objects to show and hide correctly in the first place. Think of button states, error messages, and admin-only areas of our solutions.
Before FileMaker 13
Newest Version of FileMaker Platform
Brings Significant Major Security Enhancement
FileMaker, Inc. today released the latest version of its Platform: FileMaker® Pro 13, FileMaker® Pro 13 Advanced, FileMaker® Server 13, and FileMaker® GO 13. This release brings many significant new features to the platform including the innovative FileMaker WebDirect client access. But to me the most significant enhancement is Encryption of Data at Rest (EAR). Addition of this critical and key function
