By Craig Saunders, 23 May 2019
By Daniel Wood, 22 March 2019
Recursion can be a complex and often intimidating part of development. In this article Daniel gives examples and explains what recursion is, and then presents an alternative approach to writing them which is more clear and readable, through using local variables...
Read more →By Daniel Wood, 28 February 2019
Viewing Microsoft Office files directly in FileMaker has always been a real headache for developers, until now. In this article we demonstrate how to easily use Microsoft Offices online app viewer tool to view your office documents directly in FileMaker. We also talk about Google's similar offering, and how files can be easily placed online for viewing using the file.io service.
Read more →By Cath Kirkland and Craig Saunders, 22 January 2019
Scheduling is one of those perennial problems that businesses face when allocating jobs and resources, yet every business has different needs. Here's how we built one such custom scheduling calendar based on the DayBack calendar from Seedcode…
Read more →By Daniel Wood, 13 November 2018
Building Simple and Reusable Modal Dialogs: "modal dialogs" force the user to make a decision before proceeding — effectively locking down access to the app until the user has made their choice. In this article Daniel presents another approach to designing and programming a modal dialog that is both easy, effective, and reusable...
Read more →By Stuart Woodhouse, 10 November 2018
By Daniel Wood, 4 October 2018
A breadcrumb menu is a really useful navigation design pattern for both websites and applications. In this article we present a quick and easy means to produce really beautiful breadcrumb menus using a tab control object in FileMaker...
By Stuart Woodhouse, 22 September 2018
By Stuart Woodhouse, 13 September 2018