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Steven Blackwell has written an article that everyone should read regarding the recovery feature in FileMaker 10. There's a lot of power in this new feature he will walk you through how to use it effectively.
I teach a lot of FileMaker courses and I am always surprised at the tremendous number of experienced developers who don’t consider record locking issues in their development. Usually students have heard about the concept but don't know how to replicate a record locking issue, let alone test for a record locking error in a script. Understanding all aspects of record locking is extremely important to producing a professional FileMaker solution.
Demonstrates how to create a fully-relational calendar from scratch. While this technique is far easier than previous techniques I've seen, it still requires a good working knowledge of relational design in FileMaker Pro.
Manipulating text is so much more than cleaning up imported or improperly inputted data. Text manipulation allows a developer to create features that aren’t possible with a single FileMaker tool. The real power of FileMaker exists in combining tools much like a carpenter uses multiple tools to build a house.
This article on CustomFunctions appears in the Everything FileMaker 4 Reference from FMPUG. It includes a discussion of the four types of uses for Custom Functions including recursion.
The history of FileMaker from Nashoba to Claris to FileMaker, Inc. Includes interviews from the Nashoba guys and nifty screen shots of early versions of FileMaker and Nutshell!
Indexes make finds fast! But, indexes also support a bevy of other features such as relationships, value lists and validation. This blog entry will explore the definition of an index from a FileMaker point of view as well how it is used throughout the application.
Naming conventions are so important, FileMaker, Inc. commissioned a white paper from some of the top FileMaker developers in the world. If you haven’t discovered this white paper yet, you should consider it required reading if you are creating any serious FileMaker solution. This article discusses one way to use naming conventions to your benefit.
Steven Blackwell has kindly allowed me to share his white paper on the new security features in FileMaker 11. It covers everything from authorizing and deauthorizing files, interaction with Design functions and the new Calculation functions.
I teach a lot of FileMaker courses and I am always surprised at the tremendous number of experienced developers who don’t consider record locking issues in their development. Usually students have heard about the concept but don’t know how to replicate a record locking issue, let alone test for a record locking error in a script. Understanding all aspects of record locking is extremely important to producing a professional FileMaker solution.
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