Effective Solution Settings

Effective Solution Settings

Every solution starts out like an infant. It knows very little and works hard to manage your solution’s data as it becomes a productive citizen of your digital society. As it grows, your solution will need to offer a variety of options. User A prefers things one...
Using Gateway Files

Using Gateway Files

One of the greatest joys of working in technology is that you never really have to stop learning – although you certainly can. Everything also moves so fast that it often feels like you can’t keep up. The great thing about FileMaker is that you’re not...
Critical Graphics Knowledge

Critical Graphics Knowledge

Even to this day, after providing FileMaker-related technical education for many years, I still see solutions with less-than-optimal structure and storage. When it comes to graphics, “all things add up.” The cumulative cost of data or technical debt often comes back...
Re-Theming Existing Solutions

Re-Theming Existing Solutions

When tackling the task of updating a UI/UX look and feel, it can quickly become overwhelming — especially if you have hundreds of layouts and countless individual styles, some in use and others deprecated. While designing a new solution from scratch allows you to take...
Execute Data API – Stateless CRUD

Execute Data API – Stateless CRUD

Continuing from a previous video that introduced the Execute FileMaker Data API script step, this video explores the remaining CRUD operations added in FileMaker 21+. With the create, update, duplicate, and delete actions, we can now leverage more stateless data...