Comments on: Introducing FileMaker Pro 10 http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/ smart business solutions Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:37:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mitsuko Susa http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/comment-page-2/#comment-1920 Mitsuko Susa Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:52:35 +0000 http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/#comment-1920 Wonderful blog, some fascinating points. I remember 2 of days ago, I have visited a similar post. Wonderful blog, some fascinating points. I remember 2 of days ago, I have visited a similar post.

]]> By: Jim http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/comment-page-2/#comment-1797 Jim Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:21:53 +0000 http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/#comment-1797 I cannot believe I'm missing this but I'm just trying to rename a button label and cannot find the way to select the text to change. Help! I cannot believe I’m missing this but I’m just trying to rename a button label and cannot find the way to select the text to change.
Help!

]]> By: Comajama http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/comment-page-2/#comment-1756 Comajama Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:08:57 +0000 http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/#comment-1756 To respond to an earlier post. Filemaker actually remembers your print settings for a whole session. So, for instance, if you have Forms that run several pages long because your client wants data to populate automatically across several pages. Then you do the Page Setup for the first page and then run it through the rest of the process (Go to next Layout, Print;No Dialog, etc.) It will print the rest of your layouts with the same settings. To respond to an earlier post. Filemaker actually remembers your print settings for a whole session. So, for instance, if you have Forms that run several pages long because your client wants data to populate automatically across several pages. Then you do the Page Setup for the first page and then run it through the rest of the process (Go to next Layout, Print;No Dialog, etc.) It will print the rest of your layouts with the same settings.

]]> By: Burt Goldstein http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/comment-page-2/#comment-1732 Burt Goldstein Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:24:35 +0000 http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/#comment-1732 Does v10 correct the longstanding bug in which the bottom line of text in a report are cut through horizontally, so that the tops of characters print at the bottom of the page, and the bottom halves print at the top of the next page? Makes for a very UNprofessional looking invoice! (This is an intermittent problem, occurring in some reports consisting of several parts - Body, Subsummary, etc. "Page break before each occurrance" has to be UNchecked to see the error.) I made an elaborate billing system to suit a demanding professional, and the only problem I cannot solve is this one. Serge LeSouef of Experts Exchange confirmed this problem exists up to version 9. So I am hoping it is finally fixed. Does v10 correct the longstanding bug in which the bottom line of text in a report are cut through horizontally, so that the tops of characters print at the bottom of the page, and the bottom halves print at the top of the next page? Makes for a very UNprofessional looking invoice!

(This is an intermittent problem, occurring in some reports consisting of several parts – Body, Subsummary, etc. “Page break before each occurrance” has to be UNchecked to see the error.)

I made an elaborate billing system to suit a demanding professional, and the only problem I cannot solve is this one. Serge LeSouef of Experts Exchange confirmed this problem exists up to version 9. So I am hoping it is finally fixed.

]]> By: Geoff Coffey http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/comment-page-2/#comment-1642 Geoff Coffey Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:29:44 +0000 http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/#comment-1642 Albert: I went straight to my dictionary to get the definition that would prove you wrong, and alas! You are completely, 100% correct. I've been using the word "obtuse" wrong for ages. And "abstruse" seems like precisely what I thought "obtuse" would mean. I love it when *I* learn from my own blog :) Thanks! Geoff Albert:

I went straight to my dictionary to get the definition that would prove you wrong, and alas! You are completely, 100% correct. I’ve been using the word “obtuse” wrong for ages.

And “abstruse” seems like precisely what I thought “obtuse” would mean. I love it when *I* learn from my own blog :)

Thanks!

Geoff

]]> By: Albert Steg http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/comment-page-2/#comment-1641 Albert Steg Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:46:18 +0000 http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/#comment-1641 Just another tiny editing note, but "obtuse" is a word that describes a dullness of perception or acuity in a thinking being -- it's the that FMP *developers* may be obtuse, not the program: "But a lot of people ignored this problem either because they were unaware or considered it too obtuse to worry about.?" "On the down side, these logs are obtuse—you have to know a lot about FileMaker database internals to really make sense of them." I think the word you probably were aiming at is the similar-sounding "abstruse" -- "recondite" would also be good. Acutely, Albert Just another tiny editing note, but “obtuse” is a word that describes a dullness of perception or acuity in a thinking being — it’s the that FMP *developers* may be obtuse, not the program:

“But a lot of people ignored this problem either because they were unaware or considered it too obtuse to worry about.?”

“On the down side, these logs are obtuse—you have to know a lot about FileMaker database internals to really make sense of them.”

I think the word you probably were aiming at is the similar-sounding “abstruse” — “recondite” would also be good.

Acutely,
Albert

]]> By: Hope Ray http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/comment-page-2/#comment-1586 Hope Ray Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:36:59 +0000 http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/#comment-1586 I noticed in your post that you made the statement that FM10 now gives you control over the Print Setup. Obviously you have used this script step yet because it appears that it gets overrode by the Print step. That's right, you can set the Print Setup in a script and it will remember everything you set UNTIL you add the Print step. Whatever you default printer was last set to print (landscape, portrait, various paper sizes) will be restored and that isn't always what you just had the Print Setup change. If you test it and get that Print Setup to work, I would love to know what the trick is because it's basically ignored in all of my databases. This means I am having to get my customers retrained on what type of print settings they need to select for their printer. I've been debugging this thing for over a week now and have even reported it to Filemaker but haven't received a response yet. It seems to me that all of the problems that version 9 and 8.5 are still existing in 10 when comes to print I noticed in your post that you made the statement that FM10 now gives you control over the Print Setup. Obviously you have used this script step yet because it appears that it gets overrode by the Print step. That’s right, you can set the Print Setup in a script and it will remember everything you set UNTIL you add the Print step. Whatever you default printer was last set to print (landscape, portrait, various paper sizes) will be restored and that isn’t always what you just had the Print Setup change.

If you test it and get that Print Setup to work, I would love to know what the trick is because it’s basically ignored in all of my databases. This means I am having to get my customers retrained on what type of print settings they need to select for their printer. I’ve been debugging this thing for over a week now and have even reported it to Filemaker but haven’t received a response yet. It seems to me that all of the problems that version 9 and 8.5 are still existing in 10 when comes to print

]]> By: Geoff Coffey http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/comment-page-2/#comment-1571 Geoff Coffey Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:35:48 +0000 http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/#comment-1571 Bill: Thanks! Corrected. Want a job? I think we could use an editor. :) Geoff Bill:

Thanks! Corrected. Want a job? I think we could use an editor. :)

Geoff

]]> By: Bill Doerrfeld http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/comment-page-2/#comment-1570 Bill Doerrfeld Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:33:25 +0000 http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/#comment-1570 I've had it on the to-do list to read through all of this article for a while. Just did. Great job Geoff! Minor quibbles on grammar. Look for these two phrases: <blockquote> the simpler solution is to turn of Table view access... ["off" instead of "of"] </blockquote> <blockquote> FileMaker 10 has one new features... ["feature" not "features"] </blockquote> Good job. Thanks! Bill I’ve had it on the to-do list to read through all of this article for a while. Just did. Great job Geoff!

Minor quibbles on grammar. Look for these two phrases:

the simpler solution is to turn of Table view access… ["off" instead of "of"]

FileMaker 10 has one new features… ["feature" not "features"]

Good job. Thanks!

Bill

]]> By: Geoff Coffey http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/comment-page-2/#comment-1564 Geoff Coffey Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:18:51 +0000 http://sixfriedrice.com/wp/introducing-filemaker-10/#comment-1564 buckaroo: Great point and a good suggestion. I just sent the feedback. Geoff buckaroo:

Great point and a good suggestion. I just sent the feedback.

Geoff

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