I’m sure you know by now that the latest and greatest release of our favourite database ‘FileMaker’ was released yesterday. While every new release of FileMaker brings with it new…

If you’ve ever tried to create a value list based on an unstored calculation, you’ve probably come across this error: Normally this means using workarounds to create the value lists…

FileMaker’s External SQL Sources allows a database created in FileMaker to display and manipulate data from any ODBC compliant data source. All FileMaker needs is a system DSN (data source…

With the introduction of the function ExecuteSQL in Filemaker 12, I find it now fairly easy to have dynamic value lists. An instance this may become useful is if you…

First of all, props go out to Jeremy Bante for this one. I’ve spent some time recently going through some of the solutions on ModularFileMaker.org. While I’ve found a lot…

I’m going to keep today’s blog post simple and to-the-point. It’s pretty common in programming to need to toggle between 2 states (boolean). FileMaker Pro however, doesn’t provide a boolean…

Nearly 3 years ago, Kevin McGee wrote a blog post entitled How to: Gantt Charts in FileMaker. Since then, we’ve had a lot of interest in native Filemaker Gantt charts.…

Image (used with permission) by Zoe Peleti.http://www.zoe-aurora.com It’s come up in conversations a few times amongst my colleagues and I now… “What exactly is the best way to generate serial…

If you use a FileMaker database (or even multiple FileMaker databases) on a regular basis, then chances are you typically open up FileMaker Pro first, and from there either pick…

Recently I’ve been doing some research into doing barcode scanning in FileMaker Go. While this is something that isn’t possible natively with FileMaker, there are companies that have already looked…