I am excited to share with you some of the new features now that FileMaker 16 has officially been released. In this post I thought I would start out simple and show the JSON parsing function coupled with a simple API call which allows for simpler data entry when it comes to entering in [...]
FileMaker 16 was just 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! - Technique which showed us how to have a cleaner [...]
Here’s a quick fix if you have an Excel spreadsheet that has a field that combines the city, state, and zip in one field. Three calculations will easily extract the information and place them into individual fields allowing you to easily import them into FileMaker. The combined field is present in B2 and the formula [...]
Las Vegas—July 18, 2016—The Scarpetta GroupTM, Inc. announced today that they would be releasing an update to Jarvis CRM to V3, a full-featured business solution. Jarvis is a full-featured business solution for desktop, mobile and web. Built on the FileMaker 15 platform, it runs on Windows, Mac, iOS, and in a web browser. Jarvis was [...]
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 [...]
So here is another one of those things I can’t live without, it's really the custom function that drives this post and was created by FileMaker Inspirations but that I constantly use because of how fast it is. So lets see what it can do. I should note that you need to have FileMaker Pro [...]
During the Keynote at the 2015 FileMaker Developers Conference in Las Vegas, NV, Andrew Lecates mentioned a development technique we have adopted. For those of you who didn't stop by our booth, here are the details. Often times the simplest techniques can be the most powerful. This is one of them. So what is Contextual [...]
Last year I wrote a post FileMaker 13 Certification Exam Resources, while the exam for FileMaker 14 is not currently out yet these are great FileMaker 14 resources to start with and you'll be referencing with all the really cool features FileMaker 14 has to offer. I recommend starting with the FIleMaker Training Series: Basics book [...]
What a way to Celebrate 30 Years of FileMaker with The FileMaker 14 Platform! Cheers to the Team at FileMaker! They have really knocked this one out of the park! This is one seriously FAST and feature packed release. Let's start with Speed: 64-Bit, yes our desktops will be cruising along with the fastest [...]
FileMaker is awesome. Over 20 million units in 15 languages are in the hands of organizations through out the world. FileMaker is at home on iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac and the web. Downloads of FileMaker Go have exceeded 1,000,000. If you have FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Pro Advanced their are 16 starter solutions professionally prepared [...]