Six Free Tips for Better FileMaker Development
As Claris FileMaker developers, we all have an array of resources and techniques to make development a little easier. Here are six tips to help improve your FileMaker game.
JavaScript
NEW VIDEO! All The JS We Can Do In FileMaker, with Jeremy Brown of Integrating Magic
The Claris Beyond Meetup had the pleasure of hearing Jeremy Brown, of Integrating Magic, share about discovering all the JS that we can do in FileMaker. There’s a lot of JavaScript we can do in Claris FileMaker Pro. Put another (and more appealing way) there are many more tools available to a FileMaker developer to solve clients’ problems in their apps. It’s worth exploring all that we can do in JavaScript to be ready when the time comes to implement the language in a client app. Listen to Jeremy walk us through all the possibilities JavaScript gives the FileMaker developer.
DrSnip: Web App Patient Portal
Dr. Snip is a vasectomy clinic that needed a web form for patient inquiries that tied into their FileMaker system. We used FM BetterForms to build a complex Web app very quickly.
How to Add JavaScript Bundles to FileMaker: Streamline Your Development with Carafe Kitchen
One of the most exciting advancements in recent years has been the integration of JavaScript into Claris FileMaker solutions. This article will explore how Carafe Kitchen is transforming the way FileMaker developers implement JavaScript, making it easier and more efficient than ever before.
Bar Fight Topic #12: To Plug-in, Or Not To Plug-in
There is a category of disagreement on the earth I like to call “Bar Fight Topics”. These are the things that can turn perfectly happy friends and business partners against each other, with the help of a third wheel often known as Jack Daniels.
JavaScript in Web Viewers
I love JavaScript, and there are two new features in Claris FileMaker Pro 19 that have gotten me really excited. This last week, I finally had a chance to play with these features and discovered that Claris has quite outdone themselves in how they have allowed FileMaker developers to harness the inherent power of JavaScript.
Creating A COVID-19-Safe Signing System For FileMaker Go
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.”
FM19 Add-On Spotlight: Kanban Board
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.
FM19 Add-On Spotlight: Barcode Generator
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.