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.
Stumbling into FileMaker: Finding Your Footing Learn More ❯
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
Creating OS Folders and Subfolders with FileMaker Learn More ❯
Interactive prototyping is not always the right deliverable for a design project. Check out this article about what prototyping tool is best for your needs.
What Prototyping Tool Should I Use? Learn More ❯
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
Quickly Find Unstored Calcs and Summary Fields Learn More ❯
Users ask for a lot of things, and it can be tempting to just say yes to every request. Learn more about how to deliver what your client really needs here.
The User is Not Always Right Learn More ❯
Issues with debugging when you install a managed package into the org? Soliant’s Damien Phillippi shows you how to build your own logging system.
Logging in Managed Packages Learn More ❯
SimpleFM is a robust choice for interacting with the FileMaker Server XML API. The core SimpleFM package is agnostic about coding style. In this article we will lift the hood on the skeleton app and show how clean and importantly how intuitive the code is.
Enterprise-quality Web apps with SimpleFM Learn More ❯
Manual Entry of Test Data Discourages Testing When testing the functionality of a solution, software developers frequently have to create test records, which requires them to enter in test data. If the fields requiring a value include a name field, I’m good to go for about 5-6 records, until I exhaust the ‘first name’ supply
Test Data Generator Learn More ❯
The team at Soliant has created a handy cheat sheet and a demo file that you can use to learn when a FileMaker trigger fires and when the associated action or object is affected.
FileMaker 14 Script Triggers Learn More ❯
Learn more about some of the guiding principles we use and other considerations that go into developing software solutions for our clients.
The Psychology of Developing Software Learn More ❯