Insights and Ideas from Our Team

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.

Learn about the key principles of agile development used for planning and maintaining focus during construction of large projects.

Read about what to consider and our suggested best practice for Evaluate as a FileMaker expression from certified FileMaker developers.

Find useful tips and tricks such as command-line utility, ‘xsltproc’, to run XSLT programs quickly when testing in FileMaker.

Check out this discussion on context-independence and what to consider when writing loose coupling FileMaker scripting patterns.