Get ( LastMessageChoice ) – Show Custom Dialog tricks

Sometimes, it’s just good to reflect on how you use certain FileMaker features. You know, the simple ones. Like Show Custom Dialog and Get ( LastMessageChoice ). If you use FileMaker for mobile a lot, then Show Custom Dialog is a great way to go. With Desktop,...
Learning FileMaker Functions

Learning FileMaker Functions

When you really want to master creating all kinds of powerful solutions within FileMaker, then you’ll have to be familiar with as many functions as possible. In fact, it doesn’t hurt to know and have used every single one at least once or twice. The sooner...
Learning JavaScript in FileMaker

Learning JavaScript in FileMaker

Some developers who start with FileMaker never extend beyond it. Hopefully, that’s not you. Or, at least you’re willing to look into learning some other languages and see how they can benefit your FileMaker solutions! In FileMaker 19 we gained both a new...
3 Key Uses for Portals

3 Key Uses for Portals

Personally, I’ve always been dismayed by how portals are positioned within the world of FileMaker instruction. When I see other developers teach about portals, they start with the primary use of portals and then stop. They talk about how portals are there to...
Efficient File Storage

Efficient File Storage

Just because you can create container fields doesn’t mean you should create them whenever you think you need to store files for a specific table. There are possible solutions which, when implemented creatively, allow you to use one single container field for all...
10 Good Developer Habits & Scripts

10 Good Developer Habits & Scripts

Sometimes, it’s those little suggestions or tricks which make for a more enjoyable and productive development environment. In this video, I cover some of what I consider to be the most helpful things for working within FileMaker – at least when it comes to...