BaseElements 4 beta 2

There is a new beta of BaseElements 4 for FileMaker Pro 12 available from the download page. This update fixes a few minor, but annoying issues : Updates the plugin to 1.3.1 and requires that version – fixes the issue that the reg details wouldn’t save....

BaseElements and FileMaker Pro 12

The FileMaker world is all a buzz with the new release of FileMaker Pro 12. It’s been a little longer in waiting than most releases, and is the first file format change since version 7 in 2004. And it packs some great features in that new file format. The new...
Goya at FileMaker Developer Confererence 2012

Goya at FileMaker Developer Confererence 2012

FileMaker today announced the full session lineup for the FileMaker Developer Conference. We’re excited to say that once again we’ll be at the exhibitor showcase and also having a Vendor Session showing our tools and how to get the most out of them. Our...

Free FileMaker Plugin Update – 1.3 and sponsors

Our free FileMaker plugin has had another not so minor update to add more useful functionality. Normally of the additional functionality we add is directly from our own requirements for either BaseElements or RefreshFM or potential future features of those. This...

Plugin Updates – HTTP POST and Sponsorships

Background Our free FileMaker plugin started it’s life as something developed entirely for ourselves. We wanted to reduce the number of plugins we were using in our BaseElements FileMaker developer tool, and couldn’t find anything that fit perfectly. It...

FileMaker Server and a Linux Webserver

You can run FileMaker Server on Mac OS X or Windows, but not Linux. But you can have a Linux based web server accessing either OS and it is quite simple to setup and run. The bonus is that because you’re following a standard FileMaker Server install it should...

Storing user preferences on disk in FileMaker Pro

One of the things I’ve done manually in BaseElements is to have the some configuration options stored in the user’s preferences folder in a text file. This helps to make it easier to have options unique for each user, but without a user table in the...

Little RefreshFM Update

Hot on the heels of yesterdays Big RefreshFM update is another smaller RefreshFM update. This one bumps the version number to 1.1.6 and has two minor fixes : Firstly the portal listing old file names is now editable, so you can modify file names directly there, or add...

Big RefreshFM Update

Available for download now is a new release of our FileMaker update automation tool, RefreshFM, bringing it to version 1.1.5. Although it’s only a minor point release in number, this version is a big update behind the scenes and has a lot of changes. I’m...