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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.
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Challenge: in a system with three privilege sets, Employee, Manager and Administrator, you want to control access to various panels on this tab control like so: As usual in the FileMaker world, there are various approaches you could take, and today we’re going to look at three of them with the help of these three […]
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<p>We've heard most people agree that iPads are awesome personal-productivity tools. We've also heard that it isn't always so easy to use them to bring
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:
-Various Improvements
-Bug Fixes
Feel free to download it now!
http://fmstartingpoint.com/
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One of the most popular sync workflows we see involves marking records as checked out when a mobile user downloads them. This can be used, along with FileMaker’s Access Privileges, to prevent hosted users from changing records a mobile user now “owns”.
This is very easy to do in GoZync and really shows off how developers can get inside the scripts and change the sync itself:
Learn more about checking out records in GoZync’s docs here.
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“The great secret of System Design is to be able to sense what things can be done easily and elegantly by means of a system and what things are hard–and to stay away from the hard things.” – John Gall
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(For those who’ve seen this before we’re just reposting this, having neglected to move it from our old site. For those who haven’t seen this, check out the video below: a great testimonial of what GoZync can do for a customer.)
As featured in the DevCon 2011 Keynote, using Sync Zync For FileMaker Go
We were thrilled to see Andy LeCates demonstrate GoZync in the DevCon keynote back in 2011.
Andy showed off a deployment of GoZync that Todd Geist integrated into a solution for STAT Bio-Medical.
Last time we looked at several summary reporting tricks, including a conditional subsummary (when an item’s Status is “Scheduled” it will have a value in the Substatus field — otherwise Substatus will be blank). The challenge was to generate a summary report showing Substatus only where appropriate, without seeing any annoying empty gray rows beneath […]
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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.
Howe
