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Do you have a customer still on FileMaker Server 14? Are you stuck on FMS 13? In this Livestream, we discuss the ins, outs, and pitfalls of upgrading your server across several versions at once! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

We're back with more Anchor Buoy relational design! In Day 2 of this Livestream, we do a deep dive into what "context" means and how it affects your relationship graphs in FileMaker! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this Livestream we discuss our new performance videos! We have taken 20 years of Devcon sessions and created one coherent set of performance videos for Beginners through Intermediate developers! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

We saw a presentation at dotfmp conference from Philipp Puls about him storing his custom functions in a table inside the database. With help of one custom function in FileMaker itself, he can run them all. This dispatcher function would use execute SQL functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin to query the expression by name, then add the parameter inside and evaluate it. Quite convenient to have all custom functions stored in one database. Based on that idea we developed two new ways at MBS to do custom functions in JavaScript and later without. Custom Functions in JavaScript Since MBS FileMaker Plugin comes with a built-in JavaScript engine, which works without web viewe…

In FileMaker 19.2.2, Claris has made HUGE improvements, specifically for intermediate and advanced level developers! In this Livestream, RCC staff highlight and discuss all these fantastic additions! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this Livestream, we're discussing containers! Discover the different ways to optimize your external container data storage on the server side, as well as how to do a "split" container data setup! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Our special guest this episode is Bob Shockey, one of the FileMaker™ communitys best known developers. Bob came on to talk about Process Driven Design but, as usual, we went off in tangents for a fascinating two hour conversation from somebody who has an enormous depth of experience and knowledge https://firesidefilemaker.podbean.com/e/a-shockey-to-the-system/

https://youtu.be/e_kuNITZ5SI Jacob and Richard are here to discuss the FileMaker Server Data API, or DAPI! Today they walk through basic integration with DAPI and how to use RCC's PHP-based Data API library! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Every Monday to Friday, I have an open Zoom session from 9am to 10am PST to answer questions about NautilusFM or chat about all things FileMaker. https://zoom.us/j/3033031234

NautilusFM - A framework for FileMaker™ Stupidly simple, ridiculously powerful - in just over 2 minutes https://youtu.be/lMa7hgzdgWw

For dotfmp 2021 we present what is new this year in MBS FileMaker Plugin: MBS FileMaker Plugin, June 2021 News (English) 36:32 minutes Watch on Youtube Subscribe to our podcast feed Some links for the video: 00:00 Welcome 01:08 Introduction 05:29 SharingService functions 06:10 Apple Silicon 07:20 Linux 07:47 WebView functions 08:40 CLibrary functions and CFunction functions 09:22 Audit functions 10:12 CURL functions 11:44 Encryption functions 12:26 Java functions 13:04 Toolbar functions 14:21 JSON functions 16:07 TextView functions 16:48 Versiontra…

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Below are details of the first three scheduled NautilusFM Workshops Times: Wednesday May 26, 2021 08:00 PM Madrid (11am PST) Tuesday Jun 1, 2021 08:00 PM Madrid (11am PST) Tuesday Jul 6, 2021 10:00 AM Madrid https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3033031234 Please let me know which one you plan on attending? To do so, just hit Reply and give me the date that you want. If there are too many people signed up for any one of them, I’ll schedule another one The starter file (NautilusFM_Shell) can now be downloaded from: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sft9rsrxp8tuzm/NautilusFM_Shell.zip?…

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Join a completely FREE one-hour workshop with Michael Rocharde to learn the fundamental principles of NautilusFM, the single screen FileMaker solution/framework that has been released under an Open Source license (BSD) and which has already been downloaded in 38 countries. All you have to do is register at: www.nautilusfm.com

For our MBS FileMaker Plugin we have the first linux only function: SystemInfo.LinuxSystemInfo. This function provides some system information for Linux and returns it as a JSON block. You may query such a block regularly and do your own decisions based on the numbers, e.g. only do something on the server if load counts are small. Or you may check how much memory is available on the computer. Let's look in the values. First the UpTime value shows how long the server is running already, in our example 708 seconds, which is about 11 minutes. The loads array gives you the load averages for last 1, 5 and 15 minute. The load value is how many processes had to wa…

Confused on how you should set up your relationships in FileMaker? In Day 1 of this Livestream, we slowly and methodically cover Claris' officially recommended relational design process, Anchor Buoy! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

We're back with day 3 of Nick Hunter's discussion on reporting for beginners! In this final day, Nick goes over more advanced techniques and shows off what more complex reports are capable of! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

https://firesidefilemaker.podbean.com/e/learn-something-every-day/ Including our regualr guest, Marc Larochelle, all 3 of us have extensive experience in the FileMaker training market including teaching classes, creating videos, writing books, speaking at conferences and much more. Whether you are a student or a budding trainer, this fascinating discussion about all things training will help you become a better trainer or student. Come listen as we discuss so many different aspects of training, it’s impossible to list them all here.

We're back with Day 2 of reporting with Nick Hunter! This stream discusses techniques to improve the readability of your reports! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com

Watch Nick Hunter as he discusses reports for beginners! Learn how to avoid making serious mistakes right out of the gate and improve your reporting game! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Berlin, 19. April 2021 - herrfriedrich.com, a long-time FileMaker Certified Developer and Claris Platinum Partner is pleased to announce that registration for dotfmp.berlin 2021 is open and can be accessed here: https://dotfmp.berlin dotfmp.berlin is an effort of various European FileMaker Developers and takes place in Berlin, Germany each year starting at the first Thursday in June. dotfmp.berlin is a 3 Day-Unconference and as such by definition an informal and self-organized effort to meet on a personal base. It is meant to bring all kinds of higher level developers together to share knowledge, educate and challenge each other. And to have a gorgeous time at a s…

Learn how to use Cross Reference Tables to improve your scripts and your database speed! Future live streams:https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Join Nick Hunter as he discusses Cross Reference Tables in FileMaker! For the first day he discusses the why, when, and where of using Cross Reference Tables! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.fmstartingpoint.com

On Thursday, April 29, my friend and speaking coach, Al Jensen, is putting on this webinar, at my request,. specifically and specially for the FileMaker™ Community. https://on.zoom.us/ev/AGDuLn5sN3sKNxoKIo-Fkdnw7MwhtMri6LGeFYY5_f-50fI3MVWG5LE2BgNexE8MorpB_Os I'm always looking for ways to improve my presentation skills and being able to communicate effectively to groups of any size is an essential asset for any developers who want to stand out from the crowd. Sign up today, seats are limited.

David Knight is one of the FileMaker community's best known developers, running a successful consulting firm, speaking at DevCon and holding a board member position at the Chamber of Commerce in Burbank. Listen as we explore how David started his business from scratch and ended up as one of the most successful FileMaker development firms in the world. You might be surprised how he started his career in the FileMaker market and how it could spur you to think outside the box like David. And, did we forget to mention he helps manage the largest FileMaker developers group in the world? There’s so much to summarize from this chat so let’s just let the PodCast do the talking. …

A brief explanation of relationships. This video is for newbies/intermediates to FileMaker™ and is the 3nd in a series explaining key concepts in an entertaining and easy-to-understand way. (Part 2 of this video will be released shorly).

It's another Dead Bird Friday - more Q&A and more free sample files! This time, Richard discusses FileMaker Server backups and how to deal with crashed files! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Jesse Barnum from 360Works joins the stream to spotlight their Safety Net product and give us a demo of how it works with your FileMaker Files! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

When using MBS FileMaker Plugin, you may need to combine a lot of functions together to get some work done. That makes our toolbox of functions so flexible to use for your needs. Let us show you four examples: Regularly import files from hot folder First you start with Schedule functions to run a script regularly every few minutes in FileMaker Pro. Independent of SetTimer script step, so you can have multiple of them. You look into a file path with Files.List to get a list of file names in the folder. By using our List functions you compare the current file list to the one from last run. For example List.And would find similar files in both files, …

Performing searches on the web, on the operating system or in your FileMaker file can be slow! But it doesn't have to be that way. Join Nick Hunter as he discusses the Search function on an advanced level. Future live streams:https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Performing searches on the web, on the operating system or in your FileMaker file can be slow! But it doesn't have to be that way. Join Nick Hunter as he discusses Searches and Relationships in FileMaker! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

FileMaker novices learn to make HIGH PERFORMANCE relational database with the assistance of this manual! https://amzn.to/3w8PqLk

Performing searches on the web, on the operating system or in your FileMaker file can be slow! But it doesn't have to be that way. Join Nick Hunter as he breaks down the Search function! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Explore our new add-on manager, pre filled with some useful FileMaker add-ons from Kristian Olsen! Day 3 discusses the six elements of making an add-on and an in-depth look at slide tabs! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Explore our new add-on manager, pre filled with some useful FileMaker add-ons from Kristian Olsen! Day 2 discusses Developer Mode and sharing add-ons to Wolfpack! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Let us show you a few things to use in MBS FileMaker Plugin and add to your solutions quickly today. Give your users a few new possibilities. From easy to complex, you may be able to copy a few scripts and adjust them to your field and layout names and get instantly new functionality for your solution. Let us show you a few things related to container fields in your solution: Continuity Camera If you have containers fields on a layout for images or PDF containers, how about adding a little button next to the field to let the user take a picture with their iOS device and insert it to the container? The button may be hidden, if it's not FileMaker Pro on a Mac. But …

The recording of the MBS Plugin presentation from FMDiSC meeting from 12th March 2021: FileMaker Developers in Southern California (English) 55:08 minutes Watch on Youtube Content 00:00 Introduction to developer goodies and syntax coloring. 30:30 fmSyntaxColorizer database 35:50 FileMaker Snippet Storage database 36:40 Script WorkSpace Context Menu Commands database 39:20 JSON functions like JSON.Colorize 41:00 XML functions like XML.Colorize 42:40 WIA functions, DynaPDF functions and GraphicsMagick functions together. 44:40 OCR functions and DynaPDF functions together 45:30 R…

When you use our MBS FileMaker Plugin, you will make a lot of calls to the plugin. Most will succeed, but some will fail. Do you notice when something fails? IsError function We see a lot of clients coding without checking for error state. But not all function calls succeed and our MBS FileMaker Plugin keeps a last error state for you. Even on server with multiple scripts running in parallel, we keep an error state per script. You can query it with MBS("IsError") to see if the last function call returned an error. You may do an error check each time you call a function with an If script step and handle the script. You may even write a log entry in a text fi…

Explore a new add-on product that is a package of useful FileMaker add-ons with Kristian Olsen! Day 1 will discuss how to use WolfPack and unveil its capabilities! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

'Transfer of Found Set' is an essential tool to have in your arsenal! In day 2, Nick discusses searching in related records and how important the transfer of a Found Set is with PSoS! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

'Transfer of Found Set' is an essential tool to have in your arsenal. In this first day, Nick defines found sets and discusses different found set techniques! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this article I want to introduce you the new functions from the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 11.1. Archive With the new Archive.CompressContainer function you can compress the content of a container into an archive. In the parameters you can specify in which format your archive should be. The following formats are available for this purpose: 7zip, ar, arbsd, argnu, arsvr4, bsdtar, cd9660, cpio, gnutar, iso, iso9660, mtree, mtree-classic, newc, odc, oldtar, pax, paxr, posix, raw, rpax, shar, shardump, ustar, v7tar, v7, warc, xar and zip. Then you can additionally specify a filter at e.g. for zip format it can be store or deflate. We also need to specify the desti…

Let us show you a few of the new features in the version 11.1 of our MBS FileMaker Plugin: MBS FileMaker Plugins 11.1 (English) 17:23 minutes Watch on Youtube Some links for the video: 00:15 Installation 00:50 Preferences dialog 01:30 RegEx.DataDetector 02:30 QuickLook functions with new Markup 06:00 EPC Barcode project and Barcode functions 07:20 Enhancements for Calculation Dialog 09:00 Enhancements for Custom Functions Editor 12:15 Enhancements for Debugger Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions.

Richard and junior engineer Andy discuss vertical charts! Andy shows off his demo he’s worked on to explore the various charts usable in FileMaker! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

A brief explanation of primary keys. This video is for newbies/intermediates to FileMaker™ and is the 2nd in a series explaining key concepts in an entertaining and easy-to-understand way.

It's Day 3 of discussing PSoS with Nick Hunter! This video discusses fine-tuning your PSoS scripts and how to export records on the server! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Time for Day 2 of covering PSoS with Nick Hunter! For the second day, we talk about actually building a PSoS script, how to debug it, and when you should use it! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this 3-day Livestream, Nick Hunter discusses the ins and outs of PSoS! In this session, he covers PSoS from a beginner's perspective! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

It's an open Q&A with Nick and Richard! This time they discuss pie charts, donut diagrams, and more neumorphism questions! FREE sample file included! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Richard and Nick discuss FileMaker's latency by showing a demo file from the community as well as a bonus demo, Magnifier Glass. FREE sample files included! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Unfortunately we can't give you that new book smell through the LiveStream but you still won't want to miss this book review party! Join us as we walk through the 2021 edition of the “FileMaker Manual for Novices”. Learn more at: https://fmtraining.tv/#BOOK [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Jonathan Ray explains how to do custom FileMaker portal sorting with just a web viewer, a touch of JavaScript, and a teaspoon of magic. FREE sample file: https://bit.ly/37rgL0I. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

We may not be able to take the FileMaker Certification Test for you but we can make sure you're properly prepared to pass it! Richard wraps up the study tips in the final day of this 2-day event. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

If you are at all interested in hearing where Brad Freitag is taking Claris and how the Developer Community fits in to those plans, then you are not going to want to miss this podcast. It may well be the best use of 75 minutes in your professional life. https://firesidefilemaker.podbean.com/e/a-conversation-with-brad-freitag-1614645756/

For a few years we have worked on integrating the LibXL library and making functionality available for FileMaker. Beside all the standard built-in features from LibXL to read/write Excel files, we have some extra functionality developed ourselves: Copy Cells LibXL comes with a copy cell command, see XL.Sheet.CopyCell. Beside that we added XL.CopyRow to copy content of a row. Similarly XL.CopyColumn copies a column. As you can pass different book reference numbers, you may even copy from one document to another one or copy from one sheet to another sheet within the same document. The XL.CopySheet function can copy the content of a sheet to another document, great…

Just when you thought tests were a thing of the past, the FileMaker Certification test comes along. Not to worry though, we're here to make sure you're properly prepared to pass it in this two-day event! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Calvin joins us to give alternate techniques for filtering value lists and sorting a dynamic value list in a custom order. But wait there's more! Check out the description for a couple of FREE sample files! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

This video explores ways to get around FileMaker web viewer limitations! Learn about Headless Chrome - an awesome service that allows your web viewer to work with older versions of Internet Explorer! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

It's another Dead Bird Q&A with Richard Carlton! If you want some free sample files, or you're curious to see if someone has the same questions as you do, give it a watch! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Richard discusses the latest and greatest happenings of the FileMaker platform! He also fields questions about installation, upgrading, and purchasing! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

You may have seen the earlier blog post about Custom Function Tools for FileMaker Pro. Once we showed this to people, we got a few ideas and one request was to include those buttons for the calculation dialogs in FileMaker in various places: As you see we added a white box for the result and put a place holder text inside. And we had to do code to dynamically look for what controls FileMaker places there and measure their size to place our box between controls on the left and controls on the right. Let us know if we got it wrong in your FileMaker version or language. Check 11.1pr4 to try this feature. Looks like the features work even in lots of older FileMaker …

Today we're covering the PerformScriptWithOptions JavaScript function with Calvin Mosiman. Learn about this new option for calling a FileMaker script from a web viewer! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Did you know that iOS 11 introduced a feature to markup images and PDF documents right into the iOS system software? A client asked for adding annotations to a PDF right on the iPhone or iPad with their custom FileMaker iOS SDK based application. We through first to use our PDFKit or DynaPDF functions. Those can do things like merge or render PDF documents. And DynaPDF has quite a few functions to create annotations via script. Great if you automatically want to do things, like adding clickable links via script. (see older blog posts). But this is all via script and the user wants to annotate manually with his finger (or a pencil). Recreating all the markup tools with …

With latest pre-release we added the WebView.SetInternetExplorerHiDPI function to switch on the HiDPI aware more for FileMaker application (or runtime). See comparison picture: In your start script you can just call this function once to enable it: MBS( "WebView.SetInternetExplorerHiDPI"; 1 ) When this option is active before web viewer is created, the web control will display the content high-dpi aware and zoom to 100% independent of the DPI of the display. In earlier blog post we recommended to use JavaScript to zoom the website: MBS( "WebView.RunJavaScript"; "web"; "document.body.style.zoom = \"200%\"; ") But this is no longer needed on Windows o…

It's our final day of UI/UX design with Nick Hunter! This extra long session covers Card Style Windows, limiting the role of your layouts, and how to think outside the box with FileMaker! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

When using other development tools, we frequently have a feature to inspect values for variables or fields. Just move the mouse over the variable or field and see what's inside. This is very convenient for debugging a script to quickly see values, especially if all the local variables and object properties don't fit a single variable viewer window. We got an idea for FileMaker. The macOS NSView class allows an application developer to register a function to provide a tooltip on demand. Instead of filling tooltips earlier, you can later decide on the value and generate it on the fly. To implement tooltips, we register for providing tooltips. When you move mouse …

You may have seen Safari, Mail, Notes or other applications highlighting information in some text and they may offer to do something with the data, e.g. take a date and make a new event in your calendar or take an address and add it to your contacts. Have you wondered how this works? Apple provides data detectors in their frameworks to identify those data bits. We just added a new function RegEx.DataDetector to use those in FileMaker. While you can do a lot with regular expressions yourself, these pre-built detectors are convenient to use as they are. Here is our new function: MBS( "RegEx.DataDetector"; CheckingType; Text ) You tell what to look for, either…

We're back with another day of Nick Hunter's UI/UX livestreams! In day 9, Nick discusses the Find functionality in FileMaker, dedicated Find layouts, dealing with Finds in related tables, and much more! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Starship Captain Nick Hunter is back to tell you how to get your UI design federation approved! Learn how to deal with navigating through layouts; the advantages of the hamburger menu; and how to get your design to the next gen...I mean, level! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

It's another day of Nick Hunter's UI/UX tips and tricks! Learn about planning your UI, adding mandatory fields, and simplifying your interface! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

We're back with Day 6 of this FileMaker UI/UX event with Nick Hunter! We hope that with each LiveStream, you get one day closer to achieving your dream interface! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

We were honored to be joined by the most influential person in the FileMaker community, Brad Freitag, Claris' CEO. It was a very open and interesting discussion and Brad shared his vision for FileMaker moving forward as well as part that the developer community have to play in this new, but familiar, sandbox we call home. You won't want to miss listening to this one.

https://firesidefilemaker.podbean.com/e/can-you-hear-me-running-faster/ Our guest today is Nick Lightbody from the UK, who you may not be familiar with but, behind the scenes, Nick has had and continues to have enormous influence on the work we do, because he is intently focused on getting FileMaker to perform better and faster. In Nick's words "Performance is the most underdiscussed subject and yet it is the object of most complaints." In this fascinating discussion, Nick talks about the work he does and its implications, and it will give anybody who listens some really powerful strategies for having your solutions work better and insights on things that w…

Congrats! You made it half way through this FileMaker UI/UX event! On Day 5, Nick teaches how to deal with lists and how to properly give feedback to your users. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

We hope you're all taking notes because Nick is just getting started. Join us on Day 4 of this FileMaker UI/UX event as Nick shows us the power of buttons and how they can help clean up your layouts! Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Recently we noticed a new idea on the FileMaker Community, a wish to extend the custom functions dialog with some useful capabilities to execute a custom function or check the syntax. And that's what wish was my puzzle for the weekend to solve. I remembered we had something like this in FileMaker as database: Formatting and error checking expressions in FileMaker, where you can enter a formula, format syntax and check for errors. Let's put that from a script to C++ and do it within the plugin: As you see we got two new buttons for the custom script editor dialog in FileMaker Pro. When you click Check Syntax, we take your expression and build a test expression aroun…

On Day 3 of this FileMaker UI/UX event, Nick continues with the transformation of FMSP. However, this time Nick highlights bad design techniques so that you can avoid these same pitfalls in your solutions. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

One of our clients asked for how to create payment QR-Codes in FileMaker and we just made him a new example for this. You may prepare the data, but then you can use MBS Plugin to create the barcode and put it as picture in a container and print it on your invoice. Or you use DynaPDF to draw it as vector graphics to keep it sharp. Here is the main script with the full calculation to assemble the text for the barcode: # EPC-QR-Code generation # Go to Layout [ “Tabelle” ; Animation: None ] # Sample data for QR-Code. May need adjustment to final standard Set Variable [ $text ; Value: // Service Tag "BCD" & ¶ & // …

Welcome to Day 2 of 10 of Nick's FileMaker UI/UX Event! Nick starts working his magic on FMSP and creates a newer sleeker look. Along the way he'll be demonstrating super valuable tips and techniques. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Introducing a 10 day FileMaker UI/UX event with Nick Hunter. That's right... not one, not two but TEN content packed days that will change how you look at the design of your solutions. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Happy Friday! In this weekly Dead Bird Friday, we have some FREE sample files from one of our viewers! Find the download links in the description. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Calvin joins us to demonstrate how to use JotForm and a REST API to pull data from a public web form and populate records in FileMaker where we can track results! FREE sample file: https://bit.ly/38HYZaj. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Loop has always been an obscure and difficult technique to master and could lead into an unwanted "infinite loop". Nick provides techniques to help you master Loop. FREE sample file: https://bit.ly/3nFEoI3. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

You can never have too many functions up your sleeve! Nick introduces the Choose Function, a super powerful function that could be your savior hundreds of times. FREE sample file: https://bit.ly/3bILSb7. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Although some features in FileMaker aren't great out-of-the-box, they make sure to include all of the tools you need to make your own! Including portal sorting features. Free sample file: https://bit.ly/35w2vmu. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

https://firesidefilemaker.podbean.com/e/walking-in-carltons-shoes/ In this episode, we are visited by the one and only Richard Carlton from RC consulting Inc. Richard Carlton is a long time veteran of the FileMaker Community. With his 28 years of experience, he has built a team of 32 FileMaker developers and supporting staff throughout North America. Richard is best known for his video courses on the FileMaker Platform, developing “FM Starting Point” Business Software (free to everyone). RCC is involved with every facet of the FileMaker platform including: training, development of custom apps, and large scale deployments with organizations. So, needless to say, Rich…

Last Friday of the month so let's make it a good one! Join us in our weekly Dead Bird Friday stream where we give everyone FREE FileMaker Sample Files! Find the download links in the description. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

What do you get when you cross Calvin, Audit Logs and Lean Design? A super informative LiveStream on audit logs that track users without any delay to the user! Sample File links in the description. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Need an extra boost to power through the rest of the week? How about 3 days of Calvin using lean design to create audit logs that track users without any delay to the user! Sample File links in the description. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this article I want to introduce you the new functions from the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 11.0. Drag & Drop Let's start with the functions that are new in the DragDrop component. You can now create a drag drop area over the whole working window. The DragDrop.AttachToWindow function disables FileMaker's drop handler and installs the plugin one to the window. You can also drag things out of a drop zone. To do this, you can use DragDrop.SetFilePathsToDrag to specify a list of paths to where the files should be taken. With DragDrop.SetDragImage you can set an image that should be displayed when this object is dragged. If we do not set an image, we have a…

Get (ScriptParameter) and Script Parameters go hand in hand. A good understanding of these 2 fundamental components is the key to your stargate, to a new world. FREE sample file: https://bit.ly/38nESy3 Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Did you know you can configure the capabilities of the WebViewer in FileMaker using MBS FileMaker Plugin functions? If you take a close look on the WebView.SetPreferences function for MacOS and iOS, you find a couple of options to set. Let's take a look on the most important options and what each option sets: minimumFontSize You may load some HTML into the web viewer, like the content of an email. Since you don't know the font sizes, you can define a minimum font size for the content. For example use 12 point for fonts as minimum: Set Variable [$r; Value: MBS("WebView.SetPreferences"; "web"; "minimumFontSize"; 12) ] javaScriptEnabled If you show an e…

Repeating Fields are relics from the prehistoric era of FileMaker, but they may still have a place in modern solutions. Nick shows us how to use them to save time. FREE sample file: https://bit.ly/2Xf07Mg Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Hi All, I've forgotten my user name and password for my FMP12. Is there any way I can retrieve that info? If not, can I copy all info from my database to another database and start new password? Thanks!

What's better than Friday? How about Dead Bird Friday! Join us in our weekly stream where we give everyone FREE FileMaker Sample Files! Find the download links in the description. Future live streams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.fmtraining.tv www.fmstartingpoint.com www.rcconsulting.com