by nickorr | Apr 1, 2011 | Uncategorised
Just a quick note to let everyone know we’ve posted another alpha version of the free and open source BaseElements plugin. This time there is a version for both Mac and Windows available. This is a more complete “first” update from 1.1. The changes...
by nickorr | Mar 31, 2011 | Uncategorised
This is a little technique that I showed recently at the Melbourne and Sydney Technet meetings and I wanted to document it here. It’s a user interface idea we’ve used in a few solutions recently, and it works well for some particular use cases....
by nickorr | Mar 25, 2011 | Uncategorised
We’ve been working a lot lately sorting out some setups for two machine FileMaker Server installs, and we’ve come across some issues and solutions that may be of help to others. Setup In particular this is a two machine install, where you’ve got an...
by nickorr | Mar 16, 2011 | Uncategorised
I was very excited to see that this year at DevCon, FileMaker has brought in a new feature : Exhibitor sessions. This year a subset of the companies exhibiting will have some time during a regular session to show their products and demonstrate their wares. I like this...
by nickorr | Mar 4, 2011 | Uncategorised
We’ve built version 1.1 of our free and open source FileMaker plugin. Downloads are available here : Mac Version Windows Version And lots of documentation and the actual code is available on the github project page. Version 1.1 Although this is the first version...
by nickorr | Mar 1, 2011 | Uncategorised
I’ve uploaded a new version of the BaseElements today, which brings this to version 3.0.9. This release has been a while coming and although it seems to have only a few minor fixes, they’re not as small as they seem and there is another more significant...
by nickorr | Jan 25, 2011 | Uncategorised
I spend a lot of my time looking at the FileMaker Database Design Report for BaseElements. So I see lot of the options and permutations that are possible in various FileMaker files. One that seems to come up a lot more often than I’d like are FileMaker files...
by nickorr | Jan 20, 2011 | Uncategorised
I’ve written before about the methods we use to pass parameters back and forth amongst FileMaker scripts. I’ve recently fleshed out some details and made some tweaks to the code to make it easier and now also made them available as a sample file, attached...
by nickorr | Jan 19, 2011 | Uncategorised
A new year, another BaseElements update. Some more minor bug fixes, nothing hugely serious but important if they affect you. Full details on the version history page, or download here. We recommend this version for all users of v3. I’d like to think I’m...
by nickorr | Jan 19, 2011 | Uncategorised
Just a quick note that we’ve been working on our free and open source FileMaker plugin and added a few more functions. Mostly they’re things we needed not for BaseElements, but for a future update to UpdateManager but this newer version will eventually be...
