Blog – FileMaker

Presenting a 10 step guide to setting up a FileMaker Server in the cloud using Amazon Web Services. Learn how easy it is to use this powerful cloud based service, and can even be free.

Flat designs — and other forms of minimalism also very popular at present — look very pretty, very modern, but sometimes go too far in stripping away design elements.

In this post, Mike focuses on showing you how to translate your FileMaker solution for different languages.

This is the third post in the “Stumbling into FileMaker: Finding Your Footing” series. In this follow-up to his previous post, Jeremy provides examples of how he solved some reporting problems using Virtual Lists.

This is the second post in the “Stumbling into FileMaker: Finding Your Footing” series. Learn more about the value of Virtual Lists and how they can be used to solve many reporting needs.

It is springtime for FileMaker. Springtime is a time of renewal, and that is also true of software. In this case, we are able to celebrate the diurnal cycle with the release of a new version of FileMaker. We review what has changed and what is new in WebDirect for FileMaker 14.

I wrote a blog post last month showing a way to quickly find where unstored calcs and summary fields are being used in a solution. This post is a sort of follow up, in that here we once again look at a way of quickly finding something out about a solution that would otherwise require…

In Part 1 of Jeremy Brown’s “Stumbling into FileMaker: Finding Your Footing” series, he provides a non-definitive list of things you can do with the web viewer.

A new series of posts to disseminate best practices for new FileMaker developers. Learn time-saving techniques and habits that improve efficiency of your database development and performance of the system.

It is very common to generate reoccurring reports in FileMaker that get saved to the user’s computer. Perhaps you would like to organize these reports by day or type. OS level folders and subfolders are a great way to do this. This demo file attached shows you how to create a folder and a subfolder…