A cool javascript based color picker widget for Claris FileMaker Pro and WebDirect solutions

Why upgrade FileMaker? Are there good reasons to get on the annual licensing treadmill? We think there are and in this article Morgan explores 6 of them...

A technique to commit records held up by pesky users who leave a record locked for too long...

Here we present a simple and reusable FileMaker script that is capable of performing any existing script server-side using the Perform Script on Server step.  A single line of code at the top of any script is enough to run that script server-side.

Here's a nifty utility to help developers quickly and easily derive modifier key numbers as well as codes for various keystrokes pressed...

This is a really simple and reusable script for obtaining any entire record as JSON without knowing it's field structure...

This is a great UI technique I use all the time to allow users to select multiple rows from a portal. Rather than laboriously single-clicking rows it is much more intuitive to give the user an operating system like experience for file selection...

5 cool ideas and techniques for FileMaker apps from 2021

With international travel curtailed and no big developer conference for FileMaker this year, we decided to roll our own — and so we launched the inaugral DF Con 2021...