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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 ...

How Quick-Start Saves Time

The latest release of FileMaker Pro, 19.2.2, includes a few new developer tools as well as a revised quick-start experience. The quick-start experience is ...

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 ...