Advanced Techniques
Not of the faint of heart, these posts talk about advanced (and oh-so-cool) FileMaker Pro tips and techniques.
Custom Page Numbers in PDFs and Printed Reports
7-18-2007 by
In FileMaker 9 Tip #6 we explained how to use the new Append to PDF feature in FileMaker 9. With it, you can build up a PDF file over many steps in a script, to produce a much more complex and data-rich PDF than was ever possible before. One of our readers, Norman Foster, asked […]
Deleting Duplicate Records in FileMaker
7-13-2007 by
Duplicate data always seems to creep it’s way into your system no matter how hard you try. Unfortunately, in FileMaker there is no easy way to deal with junk. Or is there?
Passing Multiple Parameters to Scripts - Advanced
7-12-2007 by
Wouldn’t it be nice if whenever you need a parameter you could just ask for it by name? Lets say that you have a create order script and you want to pass the script the name, street and zip code of the customer. If you were stuck with just the regular old FileMaker […]
FileMaker 9 Tip#9: Web Viewers without the Web
7-12-2007 by
Another day, another awesome new FileMaker 9 feature. Today’s special: so called data URLs. In a nutshell, you don’t need a web site to use web viewers anymore. Now they can easily (read: without crazy exports and obscene path hacks) show data pulled right from the FileMaker database itself. This is, like, way cooler than […]
FileMaker 9 Tip#6: Append to PDF
7-10-2007 by
How many times have you wanted to produce a report that showed two different lists of records? Or a couple pages of summary information, then a list of raw data? Or a title page, then a few pages of charts, then one list of data, then a few more charts, then a second list? In […]
FileMaker - Passing Multiple Script Parameters
6-20-2007 by
I can think of hundreds of times when I found myself pounding my head against the desk because I had to define yet another global field just to pass a simple value from one script to another. Like you, I myself hate to have lots of cruft clogging up my databases. Luckily, FileMaker […]
Scaling Images in a Web Viewer
6-3-2007 by
A recent post on the TechNet mailing list posed an interesting question:
When displaying an image in a web viewer, is there any way to scale the image to fit?
Of course container fields have this ability built right in (by way of the Format -> Graphic command). But there are several reasons you might […]
Up to Speed with the FileMaker PHP API
5-20-2007 by
So you’ve heard about the new FileMaker PHP API. You want to put FileMaker data on the web, but you’re not sure where to start. It can be a bit overwhelming at first, but using PHP to publish FileMaker to the web is easy, fun, and totally awesome. This (admittedly lengthy) article tells you everything […]
