FileMaker Devcon 2019 The FileMaker Developer's Conference will be held in Orlando, FL at the Gaylord Palms Resort from August 5-8th. This will be my 18th consecutive Conference, over 20 years with FileMaker, and 11+ years as a company. We have been exhibitors at the conference for the past 6 years. We love catching [...]
A decade of discovery, inspiration, hard-work, and coffee. I remember the first time I had ever heard of FileMaker®. It was 1996 and I was sitting in the office at Cape Cod Life magazine with a list of instructions on to how to print the labels for a mailing list in FileMaker 2.1. I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]