Fundamentals: Knowing Context

Fundamentals: Knowing Context

Over one’s development career, you’ll come across a number of people who „think“ they know how something really works. You then proceed to show them some of the cool things they can really do, like a „context jump“ within FileMaker....

Status Messages Enhanced

User interface related topics are always exciting when they work really well within FileMaker. Regarding non-modal status updates, e.g. showing the user what happened or is happening, we have a few options we can use. The most simple is to toggle a value which uses a...

Spreadsheets: Copy / Paste / Import

Spreadsheets really suck!… Long live spreadsheets, they’re super useful! This simple contradiction, however, is likely a part of our technological lives for the rest of time. Unless AI removes the need for people to directly interact with data,...

Proper Image Handling

Just because you can click the Create button to add a new container field doesn’t mean you should do it. In fact, you might want to consider never adding a single container field to your main solution’s tables. „Really?“, you ask. Yes, because...

Navigational Indicators

Providing users with some type of indication about where they are within the current layout is always a nice thing. People don’t typically like that feeling of being lost and there are multiple ways to indicate where the user is. A simple header or label is...