As our human race progresses through the ages, we?re constantly after a bigger bang for our buck. We want more for less: more productivity for less effort i.e. efficiency.
Read more →By Craig Saunders, 19 April 2012
As our human race progresses through the ages, we?re constantly after a bigger bang for our buck. We want more for less: more productivity for less effort i.e. efficiency.
Read more →By Daniel Wood, 13 April 2012
FileMaker 12 is here, and with it comes many new cool new features, a lot of which are a result of the new css-based layout engine. In this article we are focusing on one small change borne out of the new layout engine which has massive potential for building new interface controls?
Read more →By Craig Saunders, 12 April 2012
We're all buzzing about the new version of FileMaker that has just been released. There are all sorts of goodies for you as users and us as developers (and there are a few gotchas you should be aware of too).
Read more →By Daniel Wood, 12 April 2012
FileMaker Go has been "brought into feature parity with FileMaker Pro". In this article we'll look at what that means more specifically.
Read more →By Craig Saunders, 5 April 2012
We're rapt to see the new version of FileMaker released, a major release covering all 3 aspects of the FileMaker suite (FileMaker Pro, Server and Go) in one hit, and bringing a raft of new features along with speed and robustness improvements... all very good stuff, so here's a few highlights and what they'll mean for you.
Read more →By Daniel Wood, 5 March 2012
This is the third article in our series of tips and hints for FileMaker. This time we are focusing on scripts - from their creation, to editing and debugging. Take it as it is - this is just an assortment of our favorite time-savers, shortcuts, tips, hints, tricks, tools of the trade and more…
Read more →By Daniel Wood, 11 February 2012
Script triggers are a great feature in FileMaker that allow you to initiate a script when certain actions occur such as committing a record or leaving a layout. Not only do they run when user initiated, they can also be script initiated by script steps. This can sometimes produce unexpected results and so you may wish for triggers to be disabled. This article presents a very simple and elegant method of suppressing script triggers from firing when initiated by other scripts…
Read more →By Daniel Wood, 31 January 2012
In this second article in our series of tips and hints we focus on the relationship graph. Take it as it is - this is just an assortment of our favorite time-savers, shortcuts, tips, hints, tricks, tools of the trade and more…
Read more →By Craig Saunders and Daniel Wood, 26 January 2012
This is the first in a series of articles that will present some useful and time saving tidbits for various areas in FileMaker. In this first article we focus on layout mode. Take it as it is - this is just an assortment of our favorite time-savers, shortcuts, tips, hints, tricks, tools of the trade and more…
Read more →We were supposed to be competing (hmm... let me think about that word?) in the Lakes Loop Challenge, originally set for early this month. But fate stepped in at the last minute and the event was postponed.
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