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A long, long time ago in a far away land, Bob Cusick of Clickware sent me a log file that used a single field to log changes to fields. Through the years I modified it and released it many times but here’s the latest version. This version is so abstracted, all you need is a single custom function with parameters that specify the fields that trigger the log and the log field itself. That means you can copy and paste the formula from table to table and make minor changes to create logs in all your files.
Window Cards in FileMaker 16 are a cross between a custom dialog, a layout and a popover. This example demonstrates how to use a Window Card as a picker. WHile a popup menu is easier to setup, a picker is easier to work with when there are long lists. The picker has been designed to work with keyboard commands only, allowing for filtering, navigation and selection via keyboard equivalents.
I use this simple auto-enter calculation formula in almost every database I program. It’s usually in a scenario where I have a conditional popup menu where I want to clear the choice from the second popup menu when the first popup menu is modified. Otherwise, there could be a mismatch of conditional values.
Whenever you switch layouts (which is pretty common in scripting), the current tab context is lost. This example uses a Script Trigger, the Get(TriggerTargetPanel) function and the Go to Object script step to remember and restore a selected tab when layouts are switched.
After years of trying every conceivable method to put a decent UI on column sorting, this is what I have finally arrived at as the simplest method to implement and maintain. It is very compact (1 script — 13 lines of code — 3 global variables), uses NO FIELDS, and does NOT need to be edited when adding a field for sorting.Thanks to Jeep Watson for sharing this cool file.
How many times have I asked a user how to reproduce an error and they can’t. Now you can just turn on the fancy dandy script error logging and see for yourself. Then, grab that file and import it into this file to see what’s happening. If the user can remember when the error occurred then searching the timestamp should suffice. If the user remembers the button they clicked then just search for that script name. It’s that easy.
This file demonstrates how to create a preferences section for a multi-user scenario with a different set of preferences for each account. Prior to ExecuteSQL, multiple table occurrences were needed to access the information from each source table. This file will show how to reduce the number of table occurrences in your solution using ExecuteSQL.
This example file shows off most of the new FileMaker 17 features for the desktop including multiple email attachments, default fields, found set portal or master-detail layouts, Perform Script by Name and Get(ActiveRecordNumber). Read the blog article and watch the companion videos at the PhilosophyOfFileMaker.Com web site.
This fairly simple set of calculation using Get(RecordNumber), GetNthRecord and Case functions allows you to display two columns in a single portal. Why would you want to do this? It's really for specialized interfaces where you are trying to optimize the amount of information displayed on screen. Think of those multi-column phone lists you used to pin on your cubicle wall as a metaphor.
I created this web viewer example for my video training -- so there are simple, intermediate and advanced examples in this download. Examples include Google maps, web searches on Google, Wikipedia, Wikinews and more, package tracking with web scraping and PDF display from a local hard drive with the choice of PDF coming from a standard FileMaker open dialog.
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