Most regular FileMaker users access their custom apps via a product called FileMaker Pro. The folks who make those custom apps use FileMaker Pro Advanced. You could create a nice custom app in … Read more about FileMaker 17: Now YOU Get Advanced, and YOU Get Advanced…
FileMaker 17 has a great new feature for creating “Master-Detail” layouts. With this feature, you can create a new type of portal this is a bit different than the regular portals we are all used to … Read more about FileMaker 17 – Portals for Master-Detail Layouts
If you create a new table in a FileMaker 17 file, you might notice that a few fields were created automatically for you: Previous versions of FileMaker created no new fields for you. It was up … Read more about FileMaker 17 + Default Fields… Control Your Own Destiny
With FileMaker Pro Advanced 17, the tedious chore of replicating custom menu items and custom menu sets has just gotten a lot easier. In the past, if you wanted to replicate the custom menus from … Read more about FileMaker 17 Lets You Copy and Paste Custom Menus and Custom Menu Sets Between Solutions
One of the great strengths of FileMaker is its ability to export data to a user’s computer in a variety of formats. With FileMaker 16 and earlier, a developer had limited choices as to where the … Read more about Create Directories Via Script Step With FileMaker 17
FileMaker has long had the ability to send an email message with the Send Mail script step (via email client or SMTP). You could even send an attachment. But if you wanted to send multiple … Read more about FileMaker 17, Meet Email Attachment Number 2
FileMaker 17 was released this week, and LuminFire has a series of blog posts highlighting our favorite features. Be sure to check out the other posts and keep an eye on our blog page for the latest … Read more about FileMaker 17 – Variables for Show Custom Dialog input fields
FileMaker 17 was released this week, and LuminFire has a series of blog posts highlighting our favorite features. Be sure to check out the other posts and keep an eye on our blog page for the latest … Read more about FileMaker 17 – New and Improved Layout Design Tools
Not everyone was in the office today (and a couple of our employees work remotely in Salt Lake City and Tampa)...but those that were here got treated to our Star Wars May the 4th be With You … Read more about Star Wars Day Activities
We've got a bit of the tech geek culture going on with our brilliant engineers at LuminFire. So here it is again. Intergalactic Star Wars Day as in "May the 4th Be With You"! Below you'll find out a … Read more about Celebrating Star Wars Day at LuminFire
Several years ago, Doug Alder of HomeBase Software posted a FileMaker solution that allowed a FileMaker user to easily compile and export interactive timelines for use on the web using a nifty … Read more about Create a JavaScript Timeline Web Page using FileMaker
There was a recent discussion in a FileMaker developer forum the FileMaker Community forum by Dan Shockley regarding "equality in FileMaker," after he noticed that FileMaker considers the text … Read more about All things being equal… in FileMaker, equals may not be exact.