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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
A couple of demos showing how you can reveal additional text, or even new buttons, when rolling over buttons in FileMaker 13. We used to hide text from some button states by making the text unusually large, but Jason Young showed us a much better method. More in the video below.
Download the “Hover Tricks” example file towards the bottom of our downloads page.
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V3 FileMaker Pro Progress Bar – Gangsta with Gradients!
OK, one last riff on progress bars! The V2 FileMaker Pro Progress Bar demo file showed how to have the bar change color based on the percentage, such as changing the entire bar from green to yellow to red as the percentage increased. That approach has some good uses (showing how full a container is, for instance), but some people had something else in mind: having the bar incrementally change color as it progressed. In other words, a g
FileMaker has extremely functional charts, but one tricky part I’ve found is making the x-axis display in an appealing format. The values along the x-axis can overlapIf you have a lot of records. Summaries can help with this, but what if you don’t know how many points you’re going to have to plot, or the range which would need to be summarized?
For example:
A client of mine has an environment monitor that monitors temperature in a manufacturing facility to make sure it doesn’t get too war
FileMaker has extremely functional charts, but one tricky part I’ve found is making the x-axis display in an appealing format. The values along the x-axis can overlapIf you have a lot of records. Summaries can help with this, but what if you don’t know how many points you’re going to have to plot, or the range which would need to be summarized?
For example:
A client of mine has an environment monitor that monitors temperature in a manufacturing facility to make sure it doesn’t get too warm f
Testing code is one thing, but how do we test our ideas. (I’m not talking about validating ideas with customers as in Lean Startup, but testing an idea against your gut. Is there a way to measure that?)
When you’re small, opportunity costs are huge–your best customer is another customer you didn’t meet–so how do you know at a real gut level if you’re making a decision for the right reasons or if you’re reacting to fear? How you do test if you’re aligned with your idea?
The Running Test is one
FileMaker WebDirect is the exciting new replacement to Instant Web Publishing. With it you can access your database via a web browser and do *almost* all of the things that you can do in FileMaker Pro. However proper printing is not one of them. In this article we present a framework and example file for doing proper printing via WebDirect - from basic record printing to complex sub-summary reports and more...
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<p style="color: #000000;">After we posted the FileMaker Pro 13 Progress Bar demo file using a base64 image last December, one frequent request we received was for a way to have the bar change color based on its percentage. For example, changing from gr
<p>Confession: I'm late in writing this blog. After all, FileMaker's 2014 Developer Conference (DevCon) was 2+ weeks ago. Referring to <a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/who_we_are/meet_the_team/mark_richman/" target="_blank">Mark Richman's</a> common advice: <em>don't let perfect be the enemy of good</em>, I decided to write it anyway. It's still relevant and good news. I hope you agree. </p>
<h4>DevCon in San Antonio</h4>
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JavaScript Functions for Speed and Profit
The movie below is from one of our most popular demos from “Year in Review” at DevCon 2014. I was talking about what a breakthrough custom functions were back in 2004 and how they unlocked a whole new kind of code-sharing among FileMaker developers. JavaScript functions in FileMaker may unlock even more potential.
Jason Young introduced the idea of using JavaScript as a calculator–as a library of functions–instead of using it for perhaps the more obvio
If you couldn’t make it to DevCon, SeedCode is extending our 20% off sale on all templates and add-ons through this week (August 8th).
That’s 20% off our Pro Calendar (with WebDirect support), ProMaps, and 20% off the new faster GoZync for syncing FileMaker Go.
See all products on sale
Implementation packages are not on sale. Please get in touch if you have questions: we’re here to help.
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<p><a href="http://www.meetup.com/FileMaker-STL/"><img class="wp-image-1103 size-medium" src="http://www.skeletonkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Untitled-copy-300x83.jpg" alt="FileMaker STL" width="300" height="83" /></a> </p>
<p>You are invited to <a href="http://www.meetup.com/FileMaker-STL/" target="_blank">join</a> our local FileMaker User Group. This group is for experienced FileMaker Devs, FileMaker users who've poked around under the
Practically every web developer, blogger and SEO specialist on the internet talks about how content is king, but what do they really mean? Thousands of websites and blogs are updated every day and every single one of these websites is crawled over by Google to find the keywords, content and to see if there have...
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Practically every web developer, blogger and SEO specialist on the internet talks about how content is king, but what do they really mean? Thousands of websites and blogs are updated every day and every single one of these websites is crawled over by Google to find the keywords, content and to see if there have...
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Molly Connolly’s presentation, “How to Hire a Junior Developer,” provides valuable insights on hiring, training, and evaluating junior FileMaker developers. Click the image below to view the presentation on the FileMaker Technical Network:
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With so much going on at DevCon–and so many friends to catch up with–it can be tempting to put yourself on auto-pilot for the whole conference, just reacting to what’s around you.
You can feel a little aimless that way. And you can miss things. You’ve sacrificed a lot to be here so double-down on that commitment: join the DevCon Meditation Challenge and see what it does for you.
This even works if you’re not at DevCon =)Folks who take up the challenge will take time to meditate on their own, f
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<p>If you are in the Lexington, Kentucky area on Thursday, 8/7, you are invited to join us at an App Spotlight - FileMaker: Thursday, 8/7, 9am, Apple Store
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<p>Join us Tuesday, August 19, for a free one-hour webinar at 2pm (EST)/ 1pm (CST)/ 11am (PST). This session is for any FileMaker Pro developer, Project Managers and IT Managers. Register now.</p>
<p>Having the support of IT is critical to any successful FileMaker deployment. What can you do as the Developer
If you haven’t played with flights on Virgin America’s new site you should definitely check it out. A great rethink of the flight booking workflow, it’s also a nice argument for the long-scrolling site.
Big, sexy date pickers are dear to my heart. Book a flight. Details on the redesign, Work & CO, and their use of AngularJS here.
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When it comes to creating child records records in FileMaker we have a couple of different options available. The first is to enable “Allow creation of records via this relationship” on the relationship graph. This displays an empty set of fields in the last portal row so that the user can enter data and create a record. The second method is to create a button located outside the portal that creates a new record ready for the user to enter their data.
A new feature that we have been using exte
Syncing FileMaker Go
We got some great questions about sync in our last webinar and we’ve posted a video below. Big thanks to Todd Geist for joining me to answer questions and talk sync…
If you’d like to attend and ask your own questions we have two more sync webinars scheduled:
August 5, 10am PST – https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/reg…38086638329090
Aug 13, 3pm PST – https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/reg…29797594544130
Both webinars will have the same format as the original with Todd Gei
<h4>Excelisys Vendor Session at FileMaker DevCon 2014</h4>
<h4>Tuesday July 29th from 9am-10:15AM in the Periwinkle Room</h4>
<h4>Let’s Explore the BT4 and More!</h4>
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<p>With over 100K downloads, the Excelisys Business Tracker has become an essential tool for many successful businesses. You can check out the latest enhancements and learn some additional cool tips-n-tricks as we explore the next rev of this efficient
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FileMaker DevCon 2014
is just around the corner and I’m busy planning my schedule and getting ready for my presentation. I look forward to attending DevCon each year and I’m always glad to connect in person with friends and colleagues from all over the world. I’m also excited about exploring San Antonio – I’ve heard it’s a fun town and the River Walk is something everyone should make time for.
I thought I’d share my schedule and I hope you’ll join us at one of these events:
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