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By Chris Moyer, The Moyer Group CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor, and Bob Bowers, Soliant Consulting CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor
What constitutes good nutrition for creative, professional, responsible FileMaker Pro developers? Find the right blend of programming activities to keep you interested and growing, while providing the greatest value to your company.
Whether you're a newbie or a FileMaker Pro guru, you'll undoubtedly have to provide scripted buttons to navigate through the plethora of layouts in your solution. Find out how.
By John Mark Osborne, Database Pros president and owner, and FileMaker Advisor technical editor
Have you ever found yourself creating essentially the same value list for two or more separate but similar fields? Use this tip to save some time in those cases.
Learn an alternative to the container field that lets you embed QuickTime movies in a database.
By Chris Moyer, The Moyer Group CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor, and Bob Bowers, Soliant Consulting CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor
In-house and consulting developers tend to be experts on different, complementary pieces of the software development picture. Learn how to bring these talents together to build more and better FileMaker Pro solutions.
Discover a solution to a complex printing problem.
By Chris Moyer, The Moyer Group CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor, and Bob Bowers, Soliant Consulting CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor
In-house and consulting developers tend to be experts on different, complementary pieces of the software development picture. Learn how to bring these talents together to build more and better FileMaker Pro solutions.
Discover a solution to a complex printing problem.
By Chris Moyer, The Moyer Group CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor, and Bob Bowers, Soliant Consulting CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor
In-house and consulting developers tend to be experts on different, complementary pieces of the software development picture. Learn how to bring these talents together to build more and better FileMaker Pro solutions.
Say you have a database that uses container fields to display PDF files and you want to print from a list view. In cases where there is no PDF in the container field, you want the next full container field to slide up and take the space occupied by an empty one. Find out how to make this work.
By Chris Moyer, The Moyer Group CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor, and Bob Bowers, Soliant Consulting CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor
Learn how to let users add names to one table, then perform a find in another table that automatically omits anyone in the first table.
By Chris Moyer, The Moyer Group CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor, and Bob Bowers, Soliant Consulting CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor
Say you use a value list to add products to an order. How do you get the value list to change so after you add an item to the order, it disappears from the value list? Find out here.
By Chris Moyer, The Moyer Group CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor, and Bob Bowers, Soliant Consulting CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor
NEW: If you're new to FileMaker, or not ready for advanced developer advice, check out ADVISOR BASICS of FILEMAKER PRO -- the how-to journal just for you.
You probably aren't lucky enough to work with organizations that are exclusively using FileMaker Pro. What happens when you need to share information with them? Find out how easy it is to export data into other file formats.
Update fixes problems that caused FileMaker Pro 8.5 to hang when system language and region didn't match, and when saving to or exporting to Microsoft Excel format.
Creating user interfaces that are easy to learn and efficient to use requires an understanding of the psychology we all share. Use these techniques to build FileMaker Pro solutions users can effectively navigate and use, and that enhance confidence in you and the product.
By Don Levan, Psy.D., Vanguard Custom Software president
Learn how to use an example plug-in from FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced to run a script to add an extra handling charge to an invoice.
By Chris Moyer, The Moyer Group CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor, and Bob Bowers, Soliant Consulting CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor
Find out how to build a project detail layout that has two portals.
By Chris Moyer, The Moyer Group CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor, and Bob Bowers, Soliant Consulting CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor
With FileMaker Pro 9's new Append to PDF feature, you can easily produce complex reports by assembling several layouts and found sets into one seamless PDF file.
It's nice that FileMaker Pro can save your layout changes automatically, but what do you do if you mess things up in a layout so much that an Undo command isn't enough to get you out of the jam? Find out here.
By Stuart Gripman, Crooked Arm Consulting founder and president, and Advisor Basics of FileMaker Pro technical editor
Many people are more comfortable with using a spreadsheet than they are with databases, regardless of the limitations of spreadsheets. Learn how to help make the case for using FileMaker Pro.
Learn a project management methodology that helps you build stronger relationships with your customers, deliver more accurate custom software quicker, and prevent misunderstandings that would otherwise derail a project.
By Jason Mundok, IT Solutions Consulting, Inc. FileMaker consultant and manager of training services
If you've been working with FileMaker Pro for many years, but don't feel like you've reached the expert level yet, these four suggestions will help you focus on how to improve your skills for the next level of technical prowess.
By Chris Moyer, The Moyer Group CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor, and Bob Bowers, Soliant Consulting CEO and FileMaker Advisor technical editor
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Learn the fundamentals of using FileMaker Pro software. Every issue gives you step-by-step instructions on creating the databases you need. Subscribe now!
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