Simple FileMaker Pro 13 Popover Close in One Script Yes, this is a common nuisance. Although it depends on what you want to use it for. The intended use for popovers is what is commonly seen on iOS (and more and more websites are picking it up as time goes by) – for example the iCloud tabs
Using Remote Volumes to Host Files in FileMaker Server 13 After a discouraging loss of work due to a virtual machine image crashing, I looked deeper into the FileMaker Server 13 user guide and discovered that FileMaker Server 13 is now supporting hosting files from a mounted network volume. You still cannot back up files to a
Moving Files Without a PlugIn with FileMaker Pro! This FileMaker Pro tip and trick shows a simple method of moving files without a native FileMaker plugin, and works on both Mac and the PC/Win platforms. The idea for this Tip-n-Trick originated when building an updater that required files to be in a predetermined location for automated imports.
Setting Portal Color using FileMaker® Pro Here is a little FileMaker Pro Tip and Trick… Have you tried setting the color or opacity of your portal object only to find that it doesn’t seem to take? That happened to me and it took looking at the CSS to realize that while my Portal object was set
Utilize the field picker to save time when placing fields in a custom order.
Create a progress status bar using the Base64 Decode function.
Using Dynamic Script Triggers in FileMaker Go What? It was a couple years ago that I was introduced to dynamic script triggering in a video by Matt Petrowski. The basic premise is that you maintain a table with the names of scripts and a label that is presented in a portal view on a layout. You
Using FileMaker Pro to generate Code 39 barcodes without the need for fonts or plug-ins. Yet another FREE FileMaker Pro Tips-n-Tricks demo file from Excelisys, showing you how to generate code 39 bar codes with no need for fonts or plug-ins! This FileMaker Pro file demonstrates the use of conditional formatting with a repeating field to draw the
FileMaker Pro Recursion PT 3 By Andy Persons: *This article is part 2 of a 3 part series: part 1, part 2. In my first post of this three part series, I posed a challenge: how do you update hundreds or thousands of tasks interconnected with tens of thousands of connections? In my second installment, we
Serious FileMaker Pro® Development. Tic-Tac-Toe: A Challenge of Unspoken Requirements In a recent FileMaker Pro software development stress-relieving exercise, our FileMaker Pro developers were offered a simple challenge to create a Tic-Tac-Toe software game using FileMaker Pro while following a few basic requirements: The Quality must be apparent in the user interface. It doesn’t have to look
