Prettifying Your UI

Prettifying Your UI

One of the most satisfying things about being a solution developer is the opportunity to create the user interface. You get to create, and modify, how users interact with your software creation. It’s like shopping for just the right outfit for that perfect...
Multi-Criteria Portal Filtering

Multi-Criteria Portal Filtering

When first using FileMaker’s Filter Portal Records feature it’s easy to get excited about how you can limit the set of records to exactly what the user needs to see. You start adding a single filter and the result feels like magic. A simple search filter...
Universal Record Marking

Universal Record Marking

Who doesn’t need to mark subsets of records? I’ve rarely, if ever, worked on a solution which couldn’t take advantage of simple record marking. Whether it’s for creating a user based subset or simply toggling an active or favorite value....
Using Custom Menus

Using Custom Menus

For many FileMaker solutions it’s fine to use the default standard FileMaker menus. There are only a few dangerous menu options which can cause serious problems. In fact, learning how FileMaker actually works, via its default menus, is a big benefit in a lot of...
FileMaker Error Codes – How to use them

FileMaker Error Codes – How to use them

For anything that could possibly go wrong within FileMaker we have a list of Error Codes. They’re easily referenced from within FileMaker’s help documentation. While they won’t give you the exact solution to any particular error that’s...
Choosing the Proper Data Storage

Choosing the Proper Data Storage

One of the more troublesome questions we ask ourselves as developers is „Am I doing this the right way?“. And, while it applies to most all situations, it most certainly applies to data structure. If you don’t structure your data well enough, then...