Insights and Ideas from Our Team

Learn to apply the conditional formatting layout feature to efficiently customize multiple text-based objects in your FileMaker solution.

Learn about ScriptMaster – a free plugin that embeds Java, and provides a means of registering any Java function as a FileMaker function call.

Extend your FileMaker application’s capabilities by quickly installing or updating your plugins painlessly and effectively. Learn more here.

Visualforce is SFDC’s custom mark up language and represents the view in a Model-View-Controller target=”_blank” software design pattern. Each Visualforce page is tied directly to a controller. These controllers, of course, manipulate the data in the model (database) and contain your application’s business rules. Visualforce is made up of components (standard and custom.) These are architectural …

Download our demo file, illustrating the meeting timer and appointment reminder featyre – using the Install OnTimer Script Step, new in FileMaker Pro 10.

Bypass generating a FileMaker “METADATA” section with this workaround solution that allows us to generate the XSL from a simpler format file.

There’s an easy way and a hard way to call fmsadmin, and the hard way is the default. Find the setup for the easy way here.

Check out this very simple proxy.php illustration of the power of FMProxy written especially to get developers up to speed.

For the project I have been recently working on, I wanted to define a set of services in ActionScript that I could use to communicate via AMF to PHP. It turns out that this technique is not well documented around the web. Here’s how I did it. Important: This example uses Flex 4. You will need …

Find this discussion on how important it is to consistently consult your software users in the development process and what not doing so can cost you.