June 1, 2016 Blog FileMaker Techniques Button Bar TechniquesFilemakerFileMaker 14FileMaker Nav Bar Button Bar Techniques! By David J. Weiner Button bars, for me, are the single most useful new feature introduced in FileMaker 14 (aside from the Script Workspace, which is a beautiful thing). Interestingly, the reason I find them so useful has nothing to do with their primary intended use case: the navigation bar. Sure, a simple and neatly-aligned […] Read more By David Weiner
March 11, 2016 Blog FileMaker Meetup FileMaker Techniques Alternative Modal DialogueFilemakerFIleMaker MeetingsFileMaker PDXFileMaker PortlandFM developerFMPDXMeetup Monthly FileMaker Meetup – March 2016 Our FileMaker monthly Meetup group met this last Wednesday in a new space! It was beautiful and the conference room was enormous – with a convenient wireless presentation system for laptops to present on a giant projection screen. Our many thanks goes out to Ken Skeen and the fine folks at Hanna Andersson that graciously […] Read more By Shawn
March 7, 2016 Blog FileMaker Techniques FilemakerFM developerFM WebDirectWebDirect From Database Developer to Web Developer Thanks to WebDirect By Thomas Meglasson III I don’t know PHP, and my HTML and CSS skills are rudimentary at best. Nevertheless, I recently became a web developer! Fortunately, with FileMaker’s WebDirect, I don’t need those skills to make a beautiful website. I build it all right in FileMaker, using skills I already have, and then publish straight […] Read more By Thomas Meglasson
November 2, 2015 Blog FileMaker Techniques ExcelExceltoFileMakerFilemakerProjectFileMaker Excel to FileMaker – A Success Story Have you ever uttered the phrase, “These Excel spreadsheets are turning into monsters!”, or perhaps you’ve heard, “Excel is the place where data goes to die”? At App.Works, we often hear this complaint – or variations of this – from our clients. Today we asked our Senior Developer, David Weiner, to recount one of his […] Read more By David Weiner
September 8, 2015 Blog FileMaker Techniques FilemakerFileMaker 14FileMaker TechniquesPerform Script on ServerPSoS Automatically Perform Script on Server Automatically Perform Script on Server By David Weiner The ability of FileMaker Pro 13 and 14 to perform a script on the server instead of locally on the client’s machine is a huge potential boon for productivity. Tasks for which a user might otherwise have to wait to complete can be accomplished in the background […] Read more By David Weiner