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...
by nickorr | Sep 10, 2010 | Uncategorised
One of the things I always like about FileMaker is how you can quickly you develop new features. It’s surely the fastest application development environment going around these days. For the last week, all of my development time has been in BaseElements, fixing a...
by nickorr | Sep 6, 2010 | Uncategorised
There is one situation in BaseElements where you can have a field that is being reported as “Unreferenced”, but when you try to delete it you get a message like the following : There is actually no problem with deleting this field, but it might be worth...
by nickorr | Aug 27, 2010 | Uncategorised
I’ve just posted a .1 release for BaseElements 3. There are a bunch of the usual fixes in this version to various UI and data issues. Full details are on the Version History page. There are two notable changes though. Firstly, I’m url encoding the...
by nickorr | Aug 25, 2010 | Uncategorised
I had a feature request for BaseElements that to me sound perfectly reasonable : When you’re creating a new window by holding down the option key, can you put it a few pixels below and to the left of the current window in the exact same way the “New...
