BaseElements Plugin to go open source

In order to make BaseElements the best DDR import tool available, we’ve written our own plugin. There are a couple of reasons for this. First we wanted to keep it simple for end users, and have a single plugin that does file functions as well as dialogs. Plus...
Conditional Formatting in BaseElements

Conditional Formatting in BaseElements

This is the first of a series of posts where I’m going to be highlighting new features and functionality in the upcoming BaseElements 3. Where possible I’ll also reveal how we’ve done various things to hopefully give you some ideas of how to use...

BaseElements 3 Beta

I’ve uploaded a beta version of BaseElements 3. This first release is Mac only while I sort out some issues with the plugin on windows. Hopefully that should only be a day or two. Some new features : FMP 11 compatible. FMPA 11v2 Runtime. Faster imports than BE...

Reducing Complexity in Software

Every time I’m working on BaseElements, there is an ongoing struggle between adding more features and making it easy to use. Recently I came across this article on Neven Mrgan’s Tumbl which is kind of related to the subject, but the final quote I think summed it...

FileMaker Pro 11 v2

FileMaker has released the first update for FileMaker Pro 11. The full details and downloads are available here. As with all updates, there is a lot there and I’d suggest that they’re worth downloading for all users. One curious inclusion in the fixes was...

BaseElements Blog and site updates

If you’re already subscribed to this feed, you may have recently noticed everything old is new again 🙂 Apologies for that. We’ve been working on our website lately, and amongst other things all of the blog content has been reshuffled. So you may get...

BaseElements and FileMaker Pro 11

We’ve posted a long note updating the status of BaseElements in FileMaker Pro 11. You can read the whole thing in the FAQ section of our website. You can keep up to date with our progress on the blog or the subscription list or our twitter account.

BaseElements 2.6.0 Released ( at last )

We’ve finally completed work on BaseElements 2.6.0 and it’s now available for download. This one has been a while in coming and many people have asked where it’s at, so we’d like to thank everyone for being patient. More on the delays below,...

Goya on Twitter

BaseElements now has it’s own twitter account : Tweets by baseelements And we’ll be posting more regularly there as we work through new features and additional content on the website and in the software...