In this edition of the FileMaker Add-on spotlight, we’re taking a deep look at the Rich Text Editor. If you’re familiar with web development, rich text editors have been around for years, allowing users to easily apply rich text in a browser for a “What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get” (WYSIWYG) interface.
Having had time to explore Claris Connect ourselves, we agree that it is living up to its promises and is a delight to work with.
Due to COVID-19, we recently had to invent a way to sign forms on-site without sharing devices. Part of the conversation went like this:
He thought for a minute and replied, “Here’s what we’ll do. We’ll make a way for a user to sign a form without ever touching the iPad. How about we create a record just for signatures? We can send a link out to the client that will open a WebDirect interface. It would present them their signature record on their own device, and boom! Touch-free signatures.”
“Brilliant!” I said happily. “Let’s go! I’ll grab some pizza.”
Kanban boards are useful project management tools to help visually depict work. They visually depict work at various stages of a process using cards to represent work items and columns to represent each stage of the process. For instance, one of our clients, VN Graphics, uses them to track the flow of a graphic design job through the initial order, design, pre-press, and production. I love Kanban boards so when I found out that Claris had included one in their free Add-Ons, I was excited to try it out.
Barcodes are an essential tool in the modern IT world and being able to add them into your solutions without a plugin or barcode font is a welcome addition to native FileMaker functionality. Our clients use barcodes to identify products they’re selling, to apply a serial number code to a manufactured item, and to build a scannable shipping manifest among numerous examples. Documentation is limited at this stage, so I’m hoping this blog post will assist others in implementing the Barcode Generator add-on.
FileMaker has always included starter solutions, simple databases with basic structure that allow anyone to use as a starting point. Through the years and various versions of FileMaker, the solutions have become more advanced and complex to show the new features of FileMaker.
Is Portage Bay a software development company that does project management?, or a project management company that happens to do custom FileMaker and 4th Dimension work? Interesting question. I often feel that our success as developers has as much to do with our skills in communications and project management than in the nitty gritty of writing code.
Looking to other industries for operational wisdom can be quite beneficial, especially when that industry has accomplished great things. In this presentation, we’re going to look at the incredible safety record of the airline industry in the last ten years, and compare that to software project management. What does it take to mitigate the well-known human factors in our projects so that we can complete things on time and on budget? Find out in this presentation, Preventing Disaster: Completing Projects With Zero Fatalities.
On August 4-5, Claris hosted their first Claris Engage conference for all Claris customers, partners, and developers!
