A Bag of Goodies: ExecuteSQL(), Named Buckets, RelationInfo…
Get the slide deck and demo files from Wim Decorte’s “Deep-Dive Scripting, an Audit log…” DevCon session.
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“Portal” in a Popover in a Portal
How do you show related records in a “portal” within a popover? Agnes demonstrates a quick and easy method using a custom function.
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Why I Started Doing Pro Bono in Tech
Makah talks about the inspiration behind the newly launched Humanitarian Committee and how Soliant completed its first pro bono project.
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Splitting FileMaker Repeating Fields
Anders shows how to use drag and drop plus Insert from Url on a file to split repeating fields.
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Determining if Two Date Ranges Overlap
In some cases, a FileMaker developer needs to determine if two date ranges overlap. That is a daunting task with standard techniques using complex relationships or a long ExecuteSQL query. In this post, we examine a simple way to determine if two date ranges overlap. It solves some real-world problems and is extremely easy to use.
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Soliant to Present FileMaker at DevCon 2016
Soliant Consulting wil be presenting at FileMaker DevCon 2016 in Las Vegas on July 18-21 — we will be giving a session on creating developer-friendly apps and lead training sessions in both advanced and beginning topics for FileMaker 15.
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Drag and Drop jQuery Interface for Exporting Records to CSV
We frequently turn to JavaScript and jQuery for elegant user interface features we pull into our FileMaker solutions. In this post, Ross attempts to leverage this power in a proof-of-concept UI enhancement providing an interactive Export Records alternative.
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Recreating a FileMaker Found Set
There are certain situations in FileMaker development where the current FileMaker found set needs to be recreated. A good example of this is when the Perform Script On Server (PSoS) step is used. Since it runs on the server, the current context (including the found set) is lost and has to be reconstructed. I used
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Recreating a FileMaker Found Set Demo
Mislav Kos explores techniques for recreating FileMaker found sets so they can be used across different sessions.
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Pro Tips: Naming Styles and Interface Inventories
Naming styles according to use rather than appearance helps us keep track of what unique types of element we have, making it more intuitive when to reuse an existing style and when a new one is needed. Try an interface inventory to help get a handle on what you have, why you need it, and what is redundant.
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