We are excited to announce the latest feature in Claris Connect – custom connectors! This newest and greatly anticipated feature is now available in every Claris Connect account. This means we are no longer limited to just the pre-built connectors but can now create a customized connector for virtually any API that exists.
One of the missing features in FileMaker is the ability to add portal headers that can both sort portals and easily display the ascending or descending sorted order.
DataTables can be a rather challenging feature to implement from scratch without some serious learning and research, but resources like the popular Carafe Kitchen provide a great starting point.
Use our FREE, updated modular export script to export all data from FileMaker Pro! In FileMaker Pro 19.4, Claris introduced the new FileMaker_BaseTableFields table to the metadata tables accessible via the ODBC interface and the Execute SQL function. Rather than containing one record for each field in each table occurrence, the new table contains just one field for each base table that exists on the relationship graph. We used this update to make our modular export script more bulletproof and more useful.
The Modular Export demo addresses exporting a FileMaker solution into CSV files with field names.
The Insert from URL script step was introduced in FileMaker 16. We demonstrate some of the latest CURL features.
Through the years, the concept of favorites has become a standard in most software user interfaces. File browsers, media players, and web browsers all implement some form of favorites in one way or another. As a developer, it’s easy for me to overlook this concept in any application or framework, but in FileMaker, the use of favorites has never really been my favorite.
We had an interesting request on a recent project where the client wanted to navigate two portals on a layout using the keyboard. The portals needed to be setup in a way that makes them appear to be one large portal with a static header row in the middle. The client also wanted the interface design to allow for very fast data entry. We concluded that using the navigational keys to navigate the portal would be the best choice, since it performed similar to navigating a spreadsheet.
FileMaker 17’s new ‘Master Detail’ interface object allows the user to see and interact with a portal of the current found set and the detail of a single record at the same time. It can be very helpful in allowing the user to work with their data in a detail view, while staying in the context of a list of records. It’s easy to implement and even easier for users to navigate. Though the portal is handy when it’s being used, it’s often taking up valuable real estate when not in use. So, we’ve developed a helpful enhancement on the basic Master Detail implementation that utilizes the slide-control panel to show and hide the Master Detail portal when not in use, while still allowing quick access when it’s needed.
