What to do with the Web Viewer
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.
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Stumbling into FileMaker: Finding Your Footing
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.
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Creating OS Folders and Subfolders with FileMaker
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
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Combine Existing PDFs in FileMaker Using AppleScript
When creating a PDF from FileMaker you have the ability to append your new PDF onto an existing PDF. This feature was introduced in FileMaker 8, and is extremely helpful. However, what if you have 2 (or more) existing PDFs that you need to combine? What if you want the first PDF to be generated from FileMaker,
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Quickly Find Unstored Calcs and Summary Fields
Certain types of fields, like unstored calculation and summary fields, can really slow down a solution, especially if they are used on layouts that are primarily accessed in list or table view. It’s not uncommon to come across list layouts in inherited solutions – files which you are maintaining but were originally developed by someone
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Wim Decorte Wins FileMaker’s Leader of the Year Award
At the 2015 FileMaker Developer Conference, Soliant’s Senior Technical Architect Wim Decorte won the company’s prestigious FileMaker Excellence Award for Leader of the Year.
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FileMaker Go – Set Allowed Orientations
Sometimes you do not want the user to rotate between portrait and landscape modes on FileMaker Go. See how you can prevent that now…
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UI Enhancements: Checkboxes
Check out (pun intended) the new check marks for checkboxes.
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The Revamped Security Area
A quick introduction to the new “Basic View” for managing accounts and privilege sets.
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Popover and Web Viewer Rendering
A long-standing annoyance is fixed in FileMaker 14: popovers now render properly over web viewers.
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