by nickorr | Apr 24, 2012 | Uncategorised
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....
by nickorr | Apr 17, 2012 | Uncategorised
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...
by nickorr | Mar 1, 2012 | Uncategorised
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...
by nickorr | Feb 13, 2012 | Uncategorised
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...
by nickorr | Dec 2, 2011 | Uncategorised
We’ve finalised the set of features to be included in the next update to our free FileMaker plugin. This one includes : Changes to the SQL library to work with the new SQL API on FileMaker Pro 11 and later. This has more options and allows for a more robust...
by nickorr | Nov 18, 2011 | Uncategorised
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...
by nickorr | Oct 19, 2011 | Uncategorised
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...
by nickorr | Sep 23, 2011 | Uncategorised
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...
by nickorr | Sep 15, 2011 | Uncategorised
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...
by nickorr | Sep 13, 2011 | Uncategorised
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...