Ever modified a layout and then wished you hadn’t? This is a common occurance for FileMaker developers, or at least me. If you are like most developers (or me), you long ago turned on the option for Saving Layout changes automatically. Up until FileMaker 12, there was only one Undo move available. With FileMaker 12 […]
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Paradise by the Dashboard Light – Bouncing around in FileMaker, building Charts
October 21, 2010 
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FileMaker Pro 11’s new Charting ability, is a great addition to its feature set. It can however, be a little confusing how best to grab the numbers to use in the label and data (X and Y axis) series of a graph. I set out to build a ‘management dashboard’ layout for one of my […]
Continue reading FileMaker MailChimp Integration – Part 3 of 4
September 15, 2010 22 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 […]
Continue reading Shortening URLs using FileMaker
September 6, 2010 5 Comments
Update: 2012-11-27 At the request for reader Robin, I had a closer look at this and it seems that both Google and Bit.ly have gone to POST method (rather than the simpler GET method) and are more locked down. They both now require an API key. You could build a method for this approach, but […]
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