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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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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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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
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
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<p>Join us Tuesday, September 24, for a free one-hour webinar at
1) To create an iOS friendly layout for FMGo, the best practice is to minimize the amount of horizontal and vertical scrolling required to interact on your layout. To achieve the same, we should make a single layout for iPhone having size 320W X 255H and for iPad having size 768W X 673H (instead of making two layouts one for landscape and one for portrait) along with proper anchor locks which will stretch it properly to fit for both the landscape and portrait mode view.
2) We also need to take
Apple’s new operating system for iPhone and iPad changes the way two critical FileMaker functions work in FileMaker Go. While we fully expect a patch from FileMaker very soon, you’ll want to review the issue and either hold off on upgrading to iOS7, retool your FileMaker Go apps, or both.
You can read more about this issue, along with our recommendations, here: www.seedcode.com/iOS7
It’s especially important for GoZync users to read up and take this opportunity to update to at least GoZync 4 (
One of the best ways to learn about a particular FileMaker feature or behavior is to build a demo. You might build one in response to a client request, or to try to answer a question somone has asked, or just to see what happens. At any rate, today we’re going to look at three […]
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<p>FMRPC makes FileMaker Pro and Go perform much faster over the Internet, and it lets FileMaker Go r
From time to time people ask me why the Privilege Set bits in FileMaker Pro are all turned OFF by default. Would it not be easier and better for security purposes, the questions go, if all these were turned ON instead?
The answer is No; here is why. First, some history. Prior to the introduction of FileMaker® Pro 7 in March 2004, all of the privilegesâas they then existedâwere turned on by default. Developers then had to wade through a veritable sea of settings and options to limit acc
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This is what finally got me to read Roberto Bolaño?!
Angus Croll: fantastic.
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Back from DevCon and refocussing, as I think we all are. I’m trying the “desired outcomes” chart again (worked well when I worked it) and am reminded of Benjamin Franklin’s plan for each day:
Wish I remembered where I snapped this.
Pretty cool. The days when I do the most important thing before I start reacting to email are by far the most productive enjoyable. The “desired outcomes” chart is here.
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We are all used to everyone thinking what we do is “easy”. “Shouldn’t take you more than a couple of minutes” is a familiar dictation from some of our self-declared savvy patrons who have voiced in on a chore or task that we know consists of hours and not minutes. So it is refreshing when you get those far and few between letters from a first-rate client who has a sense of humor, has their feet firmly planted on the ground, and are plugged into reality. Since this was such a great communication
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A common exercise in freshman courses on statistics and probability is to divide the students into two groups, let’s call them A and B. Each student in group A is instructed to flip a coin 100 times and record the resulting sequence of heads and tails. Each student in group B is instructed to merely […]
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<p><i>The following is a shared blog from Oliver Block, <a href="http://www.brightsourcei
We’re offering 20% off on all products through August 22nd as part of DevCon 2013.
If you need some inspiration, all our FileMaker Syncing Products are on sale: you know you’ll need ‘em sooner or later.
You’ll see the 20% taken off as soon as you add an item to your cart.
Enjoy!
By the way, neither John nor Jason are speaking at the conference this year. We wanted to take the summer to focus on shipping a few things–like SQLx, the new faster GoZync 4, and the brand new SeedCode Subscribe–al
FileMaker Pro Recursion PT 3 - A Wrinkle in Timeliness: The Final Reckoning, By Andy Persons
In my first post of this three part series, I posed a challenge: how do you update hundreds or thousands of tasks interconnected with tens of thousands of connections? In my second installment, we explored a possible solution: recursively looping through each task from the end-level tasks, tracing each one to its source, then returning back down the stack and updating the dates along the way.
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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:
-Usability Adjustments
-Workflow Improvements
-Various Bug Fixes
Feel free to download it now!
http://fmstartingpoint.com/
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Ever since we built our first calendar in FileMaker 5, we’ve been publishing that data to iCal (and then to Google Calendar) one way or another. We’ve always wanted something simpler, and now we have it.
SeedCode Subscribe is the simplest way we’ve found to get your FileMaker data into iCal, Google Calendar, and the calendars on your iPhone and iPad.
Please check it out here, where you’ll find a short video showing how easy it is to get started (you can test your first calendars without even i
FileMaker Security Survey Reveals Interest and Some Confusion
During early and mid-July, I posted on FM Forums a multi-question survey asking people about their use of various FileMaker product security features. I also asked for any comments or for any recommendations they might have for enhancing product security features. The results are interesting. They reveal a high level of use of many security features; they also indicate some areas of confusion about how security features in FileMa
One of my favorite FileMaker functions is GetSummary; I use it frequently, and it had never occurred to me that there might be any alternative. Recently, however, Mikhail Edoshin pointed out on the FMPExperts list that GetLayoutObjectAttribute can serve as a viable replacement, like so: I threw together a demo file, ForgetSummary, to compare the [...]
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We’ve just released the newest version of GoZync and it makes a lot of things easier for developers using sync as part of their workflow.
You’ll find it easier to sync calc fields, add business logic inside the sync, and get GoZync added to your files more quickly. And though we’re still coding for transparency and dependability vs speed, the sync itself is also faster: often 4x faster.
If you’ve looked at GoZync before, or are using version 3, this video gives you a quick overview of the new
Jason has just completed a major new version of SQLexplorer that makes it easier for beginners and pros alike to write better queries.
If you haven’t used SQLexplorer before, it writes FileMaker SQL queries for you as you fill out a simple form using FileMaker terms your familiar with (sorts, relationships, etc). You can then test your query right in SQLexplorer before copying and pasting it into your solution. Queries are clearly commented and abstracted to survive field renaming.
I can tell
