by nickorr | Dec 17, 2010 | Uncategorised
I’ve had this update nearly ready to release for weeks now, and each time I thought it was right there was another wrinkle, but they’re finally all sorted. So download 3.0.7 and enjoy. I’ve had a lot of adventures in FileMaker paths and XML imports,...
by nickorr | Nov 14, 2010 | Uncategorised
I don’t do marketing well, it’s not my forte. Give me a technical issue and some code and I’m happy as a pig in sherbert, but when I’m asked to talk about the products we sell, I do it but I know what I’d prefer to be doing. I am slowly...
by nickorr | Oct 31, 2010 | Uncategorised
You may be familiar with the phrase “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” In other words, people tend to see solutions built with the tool they have available. In my case, my most available tool is FileMaker, and it came in very...
by nickorr | Oct 14, 2010 | Uncategorised
A couple of updates to earlier posts : Keeping good backups – a simple snapshot tool Dan added a comment that he has a similar system for keeping backups on windows. I’ve attached a copy of his example file to this post for anyone want to do the same...
by nickorr | Oct 12, 2010 | Uncategorised
Although there are some “sparse” instructions included with the our BaseElements plugin as to how to compile it, I thought I’d write up a step by step for those who don’t do this level of programming themselves usually ( myself included ), but...
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...
