Solution Wide Popovers

Expanding on a recently released article about Incredibly Easy Menus, which used a Card Window and showcased minimal use of popovers, I’ve now created a new dedicated setup specifically for use with popovers. Using this method, you can implement the technique...

Exporting JSON

JSON, JSON, JSON! If you haven’t gotten used to it yet, you’d better start. It’s the way you communicate with the web. It’s the structure that’s winning. XML is too verbose, and .tab and .csv aren’t always clear enough. So, what are...

AI Coding is WAY Faster

While some of the excitement around AI deals with using the technology within your FileMaker solution, it’s likely that, as a developer, you should be more excited about how AI changes what you do as a developer. In fact, it’s theorized that the occupation...
Testing Privilege Sets

Testing Privilege Sets

If there’s one thing you shouldn’t ignore from the start of any FileMaker solution, it’s the way security is going to factor into your creation. You need to know who the users and groups are and what their access rights are. These access rights are...
Claris FileMaker 2024 – Discovering new features

Claris FileMaker 2024 – Discovering new features

Companies release new versions of software all the time. One of the issues we may face as developers is that not everything is documented and the „marketing spin“ might not provide all the technical details. In this video I showcase how I go about the...
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....