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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.
The post Like a Boss: Using the Script Debugger to its Full Potential 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
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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Hierarchical JSON Viewer / Editor
By Andy Persons & Doug West
One of the standout new features of FileMaker Pro 16 is native support for the JSON data-interchange format. In addition to providing easy integration with a host of online services, it also provides developers with the tools to create robust hierarchical structures for use entirely within FileMaker. This hierarchical JSON viewer / editor file provides some tools for visualizing, manipulating, and leveraging JSON text.
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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.
The post Like a Boss: Let us Discuss the FileMaker Let Function appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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Script triggers are a great feature in FileMaker that allow you to initiate a script when certain actions occur such as committing a record or leaving a layout. Not only do they run when user initiated, they can also be script initiated by script steps. This can sometimes produce unexpected results and so you may wish for triggers to be disabled. This article presents a very simple and elegant method of suppressing script triggers from firing when initiated by other scripts…
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Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Layout Sizing
This is the second 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.
Today we'll be covering Layout Sizing.
Sizing a FileMaker Go layout is based on the idea of being able to Scroll Lock your layout. I cover the explanation and i
This tutorial video describes how to run credit card transactions from FileMaker Go using the 360Works Plastic plugin. The transcript is attached below, and the video can be watched on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.c...bed/qrOucBq6HHg.
Hi, I’m Sarah Mulligan from 360Works, and this video is going to demonstrate how to run credit cards from FileMaker Go. We’ll be using a combination of FileMaker Server, FileMaker Go, and a plugin called
Plastic. Plastic is a 360Works product that a
The other day someone asked a question on the FMP Experts list about plotting a driving route in Google Maps using FileMaker data. Mark Rubinstein posted a simple solution, and my reactions were, in this order: “No way, it can’t possibly be this easy; better build a demo (google-route-mapping) to find out; wow, it really [...]
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This tutorial video describes an example of using
RemoteScripter to create a PDF in Instant Web Publishing. The video can be viewed on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiNWKGSvI9o.
The transcript of the video is provided below.
Hi, my name is Sarah Mulligan from 360Works and I'm here today to discuss the scripts and functions behind the 360Works RemoteScripter plug-in. Today we'll be looking at an example where we create a PDF in Instant Web Publishing and save it
In this second article in our series of tips and hints we focus on the relationship graph. Take it as it is - this is just an assortment of our favorite time-savers, shortcuts, tips, hints, tricks, tools of the trade and more…
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geist interactive has just released a new add on for FileMaker Go that let’s you draw on photos. The unlocked file comes in Free or Pro versions and is easy to integrate into your own files.
We’ve been playing with this for a bit and it is awesome!
A few highlights:
* Draw right on your FileMaker Go Screens
* Store the drawing data in your database
* Drawing works offline
* Save drawings as PDFs – attach to emails
* Draw on images, photos, and diagrams, even photos you too with the
Watch HOnza Koudelka’s expert presentation on Marvelous Optimisation #4 at PauseOnError [x] London 2011. In this session you’ll learn how to boost performance for FileMaker solutions. Read all about his Marvelous Optimisation formula here. Further reading.
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Last September I wrote an article about a custom function that I optimized to evaluate hundreds times faster. At the end of the article, I challenged my readers and myself by claiming that the already optimized custom function can be optimized even further. Do you remember?
Later on I actually really optimized it again, and talked about this optimization during my session at Pause On Error [x] London 2011. Now you can watch the video of this part of my session below:
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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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