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FileMaker offers many different options for charting, but if you need a chart that is not available in FileMaker, you should consider using Google Charts. Google Charts is a free Javascript framework that can be used in conjunction with web viewers in FileMaker to extend your charting capabilities: https://dbservices.com/articles/google-charts-in-filemaker/
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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
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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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.
The post FileMaker Kanban: Organize Your Data appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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SeedCode Complete 13
Our newest version of SeedCode Complete has been out for about 3 months and we’ve now had an opportunity to see how people are using and modifying it for themselves and their customers. Happily, one of our customers’ favorite design patterns is the one I’m personally the proudest of: we think of them as “Cards”. It’s essentially an updated take on the Selection Portal or Master Detail design patterns you may have seen. However, the new UI elements introduced in FileMaker 13
We’ve recently seen some great examples of modding multi-point Google Maps in FileMaker Layouts. Here are two very slick mods based on our ProMaps template…
Filtering (and Color Coding) Based on Found Sets.
This first mod was done by Lisette Wilson of Informing Designs; she’s linked ProMaps to SeedCode Calendar so that the contents of the map change as users navigate the calendar. That alone is pretty cool, but she’s also letting users change the way the appointments on the map are color coded
Adding a FileMaker Portal next to DayBack’s WebViewer
Recently Arie Covrigaru of PlanOmatic ( http://planomatic.com ) hired us to add some custom features to his DayBack calendar.
His main request was to be able to filter the calendar by resource(s) by selecting from a searchable, scrolling list. And he wanted that in the main calendar window, beside his calendar, not in the “advanced filters” popup window where this is usually done. The solution was to nudge the webviewer object 300 pixels to
Overview
The Selector-Connector is a data model for organizing your FileMaker table occurrence graph. It is something we’ve been loosely collaborating on with our friend and colleague Todd Geist. I say loosely, because during the evolution of the model, we never really reviewed each others work, but talked in very general terms about our progress. The fact that we ended up with something so functionally similar makes me think that we’re actually onto something! Todd has a great post and video o
ProMaps, our Google Maps add-on for FileMaker, lets you use filters to constrain which locations show up in the map.
But sometimes you want to go beyond filters and show the results of an ad hoc find request. Using the new List Of function in FileMaker 13 this is now a simple mod and we’ve written up instructions to add this to your copy of ProMaps.
Learn more about ProMaps and checkout some movies of it in action here: ProMaps for FileMaker
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This is the beginning of a new, open source project to create a lightweight wrapper for FileMaker Custom Web Publishing designed for use in JavaScript applications.
Background: DayBack
DayBack running in a FileMaker layout.
The release of DayBack for FileMaker last month has started a very exciting time for us here at SeedCode! Bringing the Calendar to a new code base and seeing it successfully deployed in the real world has been nothing short of thrilling. We’ve recently added mobile sup
Travis Spangle has posted a great example file showing Sudoku in FileMaker. It includes a couple example screens for those of us who didn’t grow up playing Brain Age (guilty).
Dowload the unlocked file here: filemaker-sudoku.
Thanks for this, Travis!
Travis is a member of FileMaker Seattle where he’s also presented some great stuff comparing the speed trade-off of different architectures in his reporting solutions. If you’re in Seattle, our next meeting is this Tuesday where Cosma from to
Video: FileMaker Pro Tip -n- Trick: Quick Single-Double Click Trick
Video By Richard Carlton Consulting & Content Provided by eXcelisys
RCC came across Andy’s FileMaker Pro Tip -n- Trick single-double click quick demo file and loved the simplicity of how it helps you add the ability to support a double-click on objects within FileMaker Pro. He thought this FileMaker Pro tip -n- trick was so ingenious and simple, that he asked us if he could make a video that would explain fo
Coming full circle with JavaScript and SQLexplorer
Having the opportunity to work on a project like SQLExplorer has been a highpoint in my FileMaker career. It was a great way to participate in the collective learning of the ExecuteSQL function by the community when it first hit the scene. But, it’s also been a great way to get a handle on the increasingly popular interaction of FileMaker Pro and JavaScript.
The Idea: JavaScript Portals for FileMaker
SQLexplorer has always displayed your quer
Hi all,
Just posted the first FileMaker Weetbicks article for 2015 about a neat hidden feature of data viewer and the ExecueSQL function which allows you to get meaningful error messages when debugging SQL queries used with the function.
You can check it out here - Unlocking Hidden Error Messages in the ExecuteSQL Function
Look forward to peoples comments and further findings!
Cheers,
Daniel
The recent cyber attack on Sony Pictures serves as a new, additional, and very loud wake-up call for businesses all over the world about the need to protect digital assets. Organizations who use the FileMaker Platform to manage their businesses and whose databases contain proprietary and sensitive information, business process control methods, or financial data especially need to be diligent about data protection. If you are a small business, an education institution, a not-for-profit organizati
FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick: A Double-Single Click Trick
By Andy Persons
A nice little FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick showing you a double-single click trick!
Have you ever wanted to add support for double-clicking in your FileMaker Pro solutions? FileMaker Pro doesn’t currently support that natively, but various workarounds have been created over the years.
Unfortunately, none of the techniques I found support exclusive actions. BOTH the single and double-click actions occur when t
SeedCode’s year-end sale continues through Dec 31st.
And we’re thrilled to have finished both the new SeedCode Complete template and the new calendar, DayBack, in time for the sale: the last mile of shipping a product–the wish-list features, sample data, and documentation–can seem to stretch on forever. We’ve rarely taken so long to work on a new release, but they’re done!
So now you can save up to 25% off on upgrades to our newest calendar, on GoZync and additional GoZync licenses, and on upg
FileMaker’s WebDirect offers some exciting deployment opportunities. However, not being able to create PDFs or print like we can with Pro and Go is a big limitation. For many of us, an invoice may exist in a database, but until it’s represented as a printable document, it’s just not a real invoice. Finding a solution to this for the new SeedCode Complete was a high priority for us.
We looked at some plug-ins out there that allow FileMaker Server to generate PDFs: MonkeyBread and 360Works’ Scrib
The new version of SeedCode Complete is almost here. This is the platform we use to start new projects and this new version lets us share a lot of what we’ve learned about FileMaker 13, about WebDirect, and about making solutions that are easy to maintain.
If you’re new to Complete, this unlocked template links contacts to projects, invoices, and activity on the calendar. Added to that in this version is purchasing, inventory, and shipments. We’ve wired up the tough stuff: you add the specifics
Gotcha’s When Assigning and Using Variables
by Andy Frazier
“Learn from the master, you must!”
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If you do any development outside of FileMaker Pro (and trust me, if only to learn different ways of approaching problems, you really should), you know that there’s a “gotcha” when assigning and using variables.
In several languages, you can assign a variable like this:
$myvariable = ‘my value'
Reading The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder 1981. Describing work on the Data General MV/8000 in 1979.
Alsing [lead architect] thought that even under the best circumstances, several kinds of fear attend a debugging. One was the fear of “The Big Mistake”, the one that would be discovered late in the game and would require a major redesign–and with it perhaps a fatal delay. There was “the flakey fear”: that they’d designed [the machine] and were debugging it in such a way that it would never
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<h2>How to Video: Integrate a Progress Bar into your FileMaker Pro 13 Solutions</h2>
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<p> <br /> <br />While developing videos for their FileMaker Pro video course (www.learningfilemaker.com) … RCC ran into our cool FileMaker Pro 13 progress bar demo file done by Andy Persons that helps you create and integrate
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<h3>Getting Rid of Paper-based Processes using the FileMaker Platform</h3>
<p>More businesses today are seeking alternatives to legacy paper-based processes. Companies of all sizes are replacing photocopiers with iPads, reducing storage costs, and severely improving data collection time and accuracy with efficient solutions that automate and empower their local and mobile
As developers one of the hardest things for us year on year is pushing the limits of what we write and can feasibly do as developers. This leads us to get stuck in habits, whether that is code related in terms of syntax, structure related or interface. We like to do the same things repetitively...
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As developers one of the hardest things for us year on year is pushing the limits of what we write and can feasibly do as developers. This leads us to get stuck in habits, whether that is code related in terms of syntax, structure related or interface. We like to do the same things repetitively...
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Love this little demo we put together for FileMaker DevCon 2009. A customer recently asked about this and I thought folks might like to see it. The demo shows how to create a grid of buttons without having to use different script parameters on all the different buttons. It’s also a tidy example of scripts used in drag and drop.
Enjoy!
Download “Drag & Drop Example File: Airplane Seating Demo” from www.seedcode.com/downloads
Oh, and check out that cell phone icon on About / Contact Us… it
Worlds Most Popular FREE FileMaker Solution Gets Major Update!
FM Starting Point 4.2 available today, now has full integrated support for barcode printing and scanning. From searching for Contacts via barcode to adding line items to Invoices and Estimates, FMSP has you covered.
We have partnered up with Geist Interactive (developer of Barcode Creator) to make this a reality. Currently, you can scan any barcode into FMSP and do a search or add line items but with Barcode Creator you have the
