FileMaker’s new Script Triggers allow you to achieve a Google-like type ahead search in FileMaker, searching through a Portal. Here is how to set something like this up based on a person’s first and last name. The more letters you type… The more the portal gets filtered… Define a Search Field Later we will tie […]
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Archive | July, 2010
Highlighting Rows in FileMaker lists or portals
July 24, 2010 
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Update: New Demo File is here. Added demo of Portal Row highlighting as well. This new demo employs a similar technique, except instead of using the Get(RecordID), instead, the script gets the actual ID from a field. It requires a few additional steps, but if you read through the stuff below, you should be able […]
Continue reading ‘FileMaker Go for the iPhone’ – a First Look
July 20, 2010 13 Comments
As you may have heard by now, FileMaker has finally launched portable versions of FileMaker Pro, called FileMaker Go. These two versions will run on the iPhone/iPod Touch ($19.99) and the iPad ($39.99). As FileMaker developers, we were given a glimpse of this product family last year (we didn’t know it would be a family […]
Continue reading Listening for Keystrokes
July 19, 2010 1 Comment
Here is another great Script Trigger technique. Sometimes you want to use Up and Down arrow keys to navigate a portal or list view. Here is how you can do it, by writing a simple script and attaching a script trigger to the layout. In this example, I use the Up/Down keys to move through […]
Continue reading MailChimp Integration with FileMaker Pro – Part 2 of 4
July 14, 2010 29 Comments
UPDATE: 2013-06-20 FileMaker 12 version of the demo is available that should work with Windows. UPDATE: 2012-08-07 Windows users with FileMaker 12 have an option to solve the JSON error message issue by swapping out the Web Viewer steps and instead employ the new Insert from URL script step. This will save a few lines of code and […]
Continue reading MailChimp Integration with FileMaker Pro – Part 1 of 4
July 10, 2010 27 Comments
UPDATE: 2013-09-03 For those of you who find all this stuff a little too confusing or too much work, you may want to consider a recently announced FileMaker database/web service just came through my email box. The application is called Mail List Maker, is built in FileMaker Pro and offers a full fledge email management system that […]
Continue reading ScreenSteps vs MacSnapper
July 5, 2010 4 Comments
UPDATE: 2014-07-31 – ScreenSteps has gone to a subscription model. Following in the footsteps of Adobe, FileMaker and others, presumably, they are trying to set themselves to be a sustainable enterprise going forward. Their pricing is quite high for individuals, as their target market now seems to be corporations, rather than mom and pop’s software developers. Their […]
Continue reading 99 Bottles of Beer – in FileMaker 11
July 5, 2010 Comments Off on 99 Bottles of Beer – in FileMaker 11
A while back I took a PHP course. The instructor pointed out a website that had demonstrations of the old song ’99 Bottles of Beer’ as implemented in hundreds of different programming languages (1,342 different languages when I looked). 99 Bottles of Beer is a good beginners programming exercise, because it involves a loop, with […]
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