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Top Call Statistics: What’s Been Your Experience?

We recently had an opportunity to make a solid, real-life comparison of Top Call Statistics enabled versus disabled in a user-heavy, multi-office solution. We’ll describe ...

JavaScript in Web Viewers

I love JavaScript, and there are two new features in Claris FileMaker Pro 19 that have gotten me ...

FM19 Add-On Spotlight: Photo Gallery

Native image management within the Claris FileMaker environment has been limited, but the new Photo Gallery Add-On looks to change that.

Claris Connect – Callback URL’s in FileMaker Triggers

I’ve been working with Claris Connect more and more recently and just this past week was working on a new flow to ...

The Execute FM Data API Script Step – A Use Case

One of the newest script steps in FileMaker (added in FileMaker 19.0) is the Execute FileMaker Data API script step. The script step is ...

FM 19 Add-On Spotlight – Rich Text Editor

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 ...

Case Study: Multi-Office Solutions

Over the years, Portage Bay has developed a number of solutions of a type generally called ‘multi-tenant’. As I was discussing a ...

We Invite You to Join Our Claris Connect Meetup

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. ...

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:

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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 ...

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 ...

FileMaker Free Templates

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 ...

Selecting Teamwork

Is Portage Bay a software development company that does project management?, or a project management company that happens to do custom FileMaker and 4th ...

Insert From URL V2

The Insert from URL script step was introduced in FileMaker 16. We demonstrate some of the latest CURL features.

Preventing Disaster: Completing Projects With Zero Fatalities

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 ...