Case Sensitive Searching

Case Sensitive Searching

Out of the box, FileMaker is a really easy solution for inputing data and simply finding the results you want when searching that data. There are, however, times when you need to break away from FileMaker’s „solve all“ solution of case insensitive...
Native Web Scraping with JavaScript

Native Web Scraping with JavaScript

Some of my most favorite moments, when working with technology, are when you see the result of a few lines of code do what used to take hours and hours of work. Seeing the fruits of knowledge labor which replaces a lot of manual labor. It’s glorious! The example...
Card Window Progress Bars ( updated )

Card Window Progress Bars ( updated )

Who doesn’t want to know how long something takes? It’s not like we, as the busy bees we are, have all the time in the world – right? Well, how about some convenient progress information. One of the most common procedures within all of computing is...
Execute FileMaker Data API

Execute FileMaker Data API

FileMaker Pro provides a variety of methods for extracting your data from its database. From memory, we have standard relationships and calculated concatenations, the Copy All Records script step, scripted data loops and using the ExecuteSQL function. In FileMaker 19,...
Server Side Importing

Server Side Importing

There’s a great feeling about writing functional code when it’s something you can rely on. You know it’s just going to work. Which, for some import routines, doesn’t always feel this way. Sometimes the import may fail or you can’t figure...

12 Tips for Developing in FileMaker Pro

Every trade has its own tips for making your work go faster or happen more easily. During this holiday season I thought it would be great to bring you 12 Tips of Developing in FileMaker Pro. So, I opened FileMaker and stared at the blank screen of a new file thinking...