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Month: September 2007

Migrating from the Beta FileMaker PHP API

September 25, 2007September 25, 2007 by Geoff Coffey

This is a quickie: If you were using the beta release of the PHP API for FileMaker, there are some things you should know.

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Categories Web Publishing14 Comments

FileMaker Dictionary Functions

September 20, 2007January 19, 2009 by Jesse Antunes

Since many people were impressed with my named parameters article, I decided to write up another post about the dictionary functions. Actually in all fairness I think three people actually liked it. Vincenzo Menanno, Chris Wack and Sam Barnum this post’s for you!

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Categories Advanced Techniques, SFR Favorites36 Comments

The Secret Life of Find Mode: Omit

September 18, 2007September 18, 2007 by Geoff Coffey

Today’s Find mode article is short-and-sweet. If you ever feel it would be easier to tell FileMaker what you *don’t* want it to find, the Omit checkbox is your friend. In fact, you can use this esoteric Find mode widget to create incredibly complex queries that target exactly what you want.

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Categories FileMaker Basics1 Comment

Importing Records to a Backup – Brute Force

September 13, 2007September 13, 2007 by Jesse Antunes

Your FileMaker Server loses power. All your files have crashed. What do you do now? The safest practice is to go to a backup. Sure, this sounds like a daunting task, but it is surprisingly manageable. The best part is that you won’t lose any sleep worrying about how long your baling wire and bubble gum files will last.

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Categories Advanced Techniques8 Comments

Limiting Checkbox and Radio Button Choices

September 5, 2007September 9, 2007 by Geoff Coffey

Did you know that if you shift-click on a field formatted as radio buttons, you can select more than one choice? Even if *you* don’t know this, chances are some day some *user* will figure it out. Yuck. Here’s a short-but-sweet technique to deal with the problem. And you’ll see how to apply the same concept to do some cool stuff.

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Categories Advanced Techniques25 Comments

Detecting Related Records

September 3, 2007September 4, 2007 by Geoff Coffey

If you have a relational database (one with several connected tables) and you do any scripting at all, you’ll almost certainly ask yourself a question at some point: How can I tell if the record I’m on has related records? This article explains the scenarios you may run in to, and how *best* to deal with them.

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Categories FileMaker Basics4 Comments

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