FileMaker’s new Script Triggers allow you to achieve a Google-like type ahead search in FileMaker, searching through a Portal. Here is how to set something like this up based on a person’s first and last name. The more letters you type… The more the portal gets filtered… Define a Search Field Later we will tie… [Read more…]
July 24, 2010
Update: New Demo File is here. Added demo of Portal Row highlighting as well. This new demo employs a similar technique, except instead of using the Get(RecordID), instead, the script gets the actual ID from a field. It requires a few additional steps, but if you read through the stuff below, you should be able… [Read more…]
July 20, 2010
As you may have heard by now, FileMaker has finally launched portable versions of FileMaker Pro, called FileMaker Go. These two versions will run on the iPhone/iPod Touch ($19.99) and the iPad ($39.99). As FileMaker developers, we were given a glimpse of this product family last year (we didn’t know it would be a family… [Read more…]
July 19, 2010
Here is another great Script Trigger technique. Sometimes you want to use Up and Down arrow keys to navigate a portal or list view. Here is how you can do it, by writing a simple script and attaching a script trigger to the layout. In this example, I use the Up/Down keys to move through… [Read more…]
July 14, 2010
UPDATE: 2011-10-10 It has been pointed out that this demo does not work on Windows machines. It seems that Internet Explorer, the application that FileMaker employs in its Web Viewer on Windows machines is not capable of recognizing the JSON files returned from MailChimp. There is currently no workaround, but I will post here if… [Read more…]
July 10, 2010
UPDATE: 2011-10-10 It has been pointed out that this demo does not work on Windows machines. It seems that Internet Explorer, the application that FileMaker employs in its Web Viewer on Windows machines is not capable of recognizing the JSON files returned from MailChimp. There is currently no workaround, but I will post here if… [Read more…]
July 5, 2010
UPDATE: 2011-10-10 – Since I wrote this review of the two packages, it should be noted that MacSnapper has only had a minor update and has made no progress in any of the feature areas that I felt it was limited in. ScreenSteps is in active development and continues to improve. Blue Mango Learning has added a… [Read more…]
July 5, 2010
A while back I took a PHP course. The instructor pointed out a website that had demonstrations of the old song ’99 Bottles of Beer’ as implemented in hundreds of different programming languages (1,342 different languages when I looked). 99 Bottles of Beer is a good beginners programming exercise, because it involves a loop, with… [Read more…]
July 29, 2010
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