“FileMaker Pro” is no longer available…and it’s a good thing. With the release of FileMaker 17, the desktop client applications for FileMaker have been greatly simplified. Three products have been … Read more about FileMaker 17 is Here!
FileMaker is by far the easiest to use custom application solution available. To prove this and to educate my 12 year old daughter, I took on the task of showing her how to build a custom FileMaker … Read more about Create a Custom App in Less Than an Hour with Minimal Programming!
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
This sample database can be used by FileMaker developers to help create a customized solution. It is provided free of charge. TinyURL is a URL redirection service that takes a long URL and makes it … Read more about fmTinyURL – Make Shorter URLs with FileMaker
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
This sample database can be used by FileMaker developers to help create a customized solution. It is provided free of charge. I was reading a FileMaker blog the other day about addressing the issue … Read more about FileMaker Web Viewer Dynamic Image Resizing
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of PacMac (May 2020), take a break and have some fun playing PacMan in your database. This is a simple demonstration example file of the use of the web viewer in … Read more about fmPacMan – Play Pac Man in your FileMaker Database
WordPress Every business needs to have a strong public facing website to be viable in today’s market. WordPress is our recommendation for the best tool available to build that website … Read more about WordPress and Claris FileMaker – A Match Made in Heaven
Today, May 4th is Intergalactic Star Wars day! The non-Star Wars fan may need an explanation. Perhaps one of the most memorable phrases from Star Wars is “May the force be with you.” Today that … Read more about Intergalactic Star Wars Day and FileMaker
We recently found BatchGeo.com. It's the fastest way to create Google maps from your data. It accepts addresses, intersections, cities, states, and postal codes and then does the hard work of figuring … Read more about fmBatchGeo – Multiple Location Google Maps from FileMaker
I came across the nautical flag codes one day and thought it would be fascinating to see my name in flags. Around the same time, FileMaker 12 was released and I was looking for a project that would … Read more about fmNauticalFlags – View Your Name in Flags!
When FileMaker released version 16 earlier this year, one of the most anticipated new features was native functions for building and parsing JSON data. Before that, we could deal with JSON using the … Read more about FileMaker 16’s New {JSON} Functions