FileMaker is an easy-to-use and flexible platform for creating a CRM solution that’s customizable and cost effective for small businesses. It allows you to bring the many different components of the sales and customer service processes together under one roof. FileMaker gives businesses improved access to data and a more efficient workflow. Business owners [...]
FileMaker DevCon 2018 Recap FileMaker DevCon 2018 wrapped up last week in Dallas, TX . The conference was great to say the least. The Gaylord Texan resort was a new location for FileMaker DevCon. Everything was in a close proximity and it had a great lazy river. This year my family joined me. Leanne [...]
FileMaker Relationship Graph - Anchor Buoy 2.0 - "Bridge" Anchor Buoy is nothing new to the community and was a new concept when FileMaker 7 was released as a way to model the relationship graph to follow suit with the old school model of having multiple files from FileMaker 6 and earlier. Many years [...]
Jarvis CRM 5.0 The 2018 FileMaker Developers conference this year in Dallas, TX marks my 17th Conference in a row, over 20 years with FileMaker, and 10 years as a company. We have been exhibitors at the conference for the past 5 years and last year we won “The FileMaker Business Alliance Design Excellence [...]
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 [...]
One of FileMaker 17’s new features is the built-in ability to create a Master/Detail view. A Master/Detail view uses a portal to display the Master List and some detail fields of the selected portal record for a full view of the data. In the past, app developers would have created Self-Joins, Portal Filters, etc. in [...]
It seems obvious that the project proposal for your FileMaker solution is extremely important. However, most clients think that it’s only important from a cost value. The truth is your project proposal does so much more than that. Your project proposal is the foundation for the entire execution of the project. So what types [...]
Finding a complete CRM and project management solution for your company can be quite the challenge when most solutions are too expensive, too hard to use, and don’t meet all your company requirements. Often, they’re slow, clunky and require your company’s adaptation to them. Imagine if there was a solution that navigated through your [...]
One of the great new features in FileMaker 17 is a small adjustment from previous versions, but is a huge time saver! You can now view and set Script Parameters in the Button Setup in FileMaker 17. In previous versions, you would open the Button Setup, then click on the script icon [...]
FileMaker 17 has a new feature which allows you to automatically create directories in a file path if they don’t exist! In previous versions, you would have to trust users to pre-create the directory, use a plugin or use a system script to ensure that the proper folder was in place in order to export [...]