FileMaker

13 Reasons To Be Excited for FileMaker 13

Some say that 13 is an unlucky number. Many cultures, builders and athletes will stay away from the number 13. Mats Sundin, Dan Marino and Don Maynard all wore number…

access_time 18 December 2014

SQL Picker Window Module For FileMaker

This module provides a FileMaker Pro developer with the layout structure, schema and scripts needed to make a generic but portable picker window. I use this module as a way…

access_time 10 December 2014

Cascading Deletes Are Transactional in FileMaker Pro

Cascading Deletes Cascading deletes can be a blessing when used properly, and I use them quite often. I do know though, that many people are scared of implementing them, and…

access_time 24 November 2014

Insert From Device in FileMaker Go 13

Last year I wrote a blog post about barcode scanning using FileMaker Go 12. At the time there was no way to do this directly from FileMaker, you had to…

access_time 30 September 2014

Dynamic Reports with FileMaker

I was recently asked by a client to create a dynamic report. By dynamic, I am referring to the ability to choose different fields. At first I thought this was…

access_time 28 July 2014

Themes and Styles in FileMaker 13

Themes aren’t new to FileMaker 13. They were introduced in FileMaker 12, but in that release we were limited to the predefined themes that FileMaker had included. And while they…

access_time 24 July 2014

Writing Plain text from FileMaker Pro

In some cases, you might be able to get away with putting the text that is ultimately to be written to a file, within a single field in your database,…

access_time 15 July 2014

Allowing Users to Lock and Unlock Records

Under certain circumstances, the users of your database systems might want records to be locked, in order to prevent further modifications to occur. One common example would be after an…

access_time 09 May 2014

FileMaker 13 – New Feature: Object Visibility

As with every new release of FileMaker products, we as developers have some new tools up our sleeves to work with. One of the new features that I think I’ll…

access_time 20 February 2014

Upload to FileMaker Server From FileMaker Pro 13

The FileMaker family just got a bit bigger. As of 9:00 am this morning, the new versions of almost all products in the FileMaker software suite became available. There are…

access_time 08 January 2014

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