Whenever you move FileMaker code from one file to another, you need to do things in the right order. If you follow this checklist everything will work correctly when it is in the new file. Some of this stuff you can copy and paste or import. The rest you will have to...
My top feature request for FileMaker 14 is Multiple Parameters for Scripts. It's a critical part of building complex apps. It's not yet satisfactorily solved. Compared to other technical issues that FileMaker has taken on like WebDirect, it's easy. Yet it's positive...
As I mentioned earlier this week, FileMaker released FMP 13.0v2 with a fix for the FMP URL protocol. This fix let us get rid having to self host GoSign if you wanted to use it locally, without a server. Today we released a new version of GoSign to accommodate those...
FileMaker 13.0v2 shipped today. One of the things that got fixed was the FileMaker Pro URL protocol. Previously you could only use the URL protocol with FileMaker Go, or with FileMaker Pro hosted files. If you wanted to talk to FileMaker Pro files that were local on...
All our videos are HD. Please enjoy in full screen. 🙂 The FileMaker WebViewer is a powerful JavaScript Runtime engine. If you know how to exchange data between the WebViewer and FileMaker you can do all sorts of cool things. In this video we...
Last week we published a video on Syncing FileMaker with Transactions. We used our transactional Filemaker sync framework, GoZync for the demonstration. Although GoZync's transaction safe sync may be my favorite feature, it is not the only cool...
FileMaker Inc. just announced the 2014 Developers Conference. I am proud to be presenting again this year. My topic for this year is Modular Design. We will explore the newest tricks and tips for building reusable, sharable, maintainable chunks of FileMaker code. We...
This is part 3 of a video series on FileMaker Transactions. It might be helpful to watch part 1 and part 2 first. But it's not required. In this video we took a look at why transactions are important to syncing FileMaker and FileMaker Go. We use...
This video is part 2 of a series on FileMaker Transactions. Part 1, titled "Fixing Slow FileMaker Reports" demonstrated one of the many reasons why transactions are an important part of building multi-user FileMaker apps. In this video, we break...
This video is part 1 in a series on FileMaker Transactions and why you should use them. In this video, we look at a slow FileMaker Report. The report is slow because it is based on unstored calculations. We look at a way to speed up the report,...
Building Multi-User FileMaker Applications FileMaker is a great platform for building multi-user applications. It's easy to get started, but powerful enough to build applications that can run an entire business. One of the reasons it is so easy and powerful is that it...
FileMaker Transactions Although it isn't talked about much, FileMaker does have solid support for database transactions. You can write scripts with full commit and rollback support, just like MySQL and most other Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). This is...