by nickorr | Oct 7, 2010 | Uncategorised
I’ve posted a new version of BaseElements : version 3.0.5 is available to download now. There are some fixes for issues and some other additional functionality that wasn’t there before, but the most important change is the one to the xsl import engine that...
by nickorr | Sep 27, 2010 | Uncategorised
Most FileMaker users would probably be unaware that you can select multiple options in a field displayed as a radio button. Generally radio buttons are to force a single choice on the user, but if you hold down shift you can actually still select multiple options. But...
by nickorr | Sep 23, 2010 | Uncategorised
One of the great features introduced in FileMaker Pro 11 is Filtered Portals. This is the ability to add an extra criteria to the portal that allows you to limit the records that are displayed. This can be very handy and is useful to consider when designing your...
by nickorr | Sep 22, 2010 | Uncategorised
One of the cool features in BaseElements 3 was that we’ve introduced our own plugin. This allows us to do the xslt transforms inside the plugin and convert the DDR into CSV files. Then we import the csv instead of XML which means that we have a much faster...
by nickorr | Sep 13, 2010 | Uncategorised
One thing that is often difficult to do with developing in local FileMaker files is to keep good quality, regular backups. A process for doing this is needed that doesn’t infringe on your development time and is easy to manage. If you have something like...
