Happy Star Wars Day! I found this Yoda Translator from funtranslations.com the other day and decided it was the perfect time of year to put out a fun demo file for Star Wars Day. All you have to do is type your text in the first field and click Translate to get the [...]
‘Tis the Season….to have fun! All the heavy lifting has been done on this one, all you have to do is use the app to create a fun family activity - no development skills (or purchase) required! This Scavenger Hunt is appropriate for all ages, so the Clues [...]
Remove the background from an image? Did you ever need to remove the background from an image? For example, maybe you have user photos in your FileMaker database and want all of the photos to be uniform for an ID. Or maybe a product photo that is too busy and it would [...]
Introducing Jarvis Thanos Do you have a client with too much historical and outdated data? Are you short on space for archiving data? How would you like to randomly remove half of the data in a snap? We have a revolutionary new product that can do just that. Jarvis Thanos is for you. It [...]
Learn Your Functions - LayoutObjectNames How many of you have used the LayoutObjectNames function? If I’m being honest, I haven’t really used it much until the last year and what I have found is it is an awesome function to use. How does it work? First it requires the parameters for fileName and layoutName. [...]
How does it work? Perform Script and Perform Script on Server were updated to allow selecting From list or By name. From list allows selecting from scripts as normal. But By name allows you to specify a the script name using the Calculation Dialog so it will accept calculations for the script [...]
FileMaker 17 was officially announced last week, and there are some pretty cool new features to share. I’m going to highlight the Show Custom Dialog Variables, now updated for the use of variables or fields, which should be a time saver for you. So how many of us have been using global fields to enter [...]
FileMaker DevCon ended a few weeks ago and what an awesome honor to have received the FileMaker Business Alliance Excellence Award for Design on Jarvis CRM. Go check out the post on FileMaker Developer Conference 2017 to see photos and read a little about it. Coming off that, I wanted to share a design [...]
FileMaker 16 was announced this morning and I'm excited to show you a couple of things it can do. You may remember a couple of posts: FileMaker User Interface Design - Time for a change and Contextual Mode Shifting - It's a Thing! Both Techniques showed us how to have a cleaner design in "Browse [...]
FileMaker 15 was just released Monday and I wanted to get you a jumpstart with the FileMaker 15 Resources that I download every time a new version is released. You may remember I did this last year with my post FileMaker 14 Resources. I would start with the FileMaker Training Series: Basics book which is available as a FREE ebook [...]