Monthly Archive for April, 2009

Thanks to Jesse Barnum

Published on April 29, 2009. 0 Comments

A quick thanks to Jesse for presenting last night. We had 21 attendees for a very informative discussion of the 360Works suite of plugins and the java framework underlying them. There are interesting implications for document management, collaboration and markup with some of these plugins – very interesting stuff.

John Gehman won the raffle and joined FMPUG the same day!

See you next month.

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For those who can't make it to the meeting tonight…online video

By: Colin Keefe

Published on April 28, 2009. 0 Comments

Just a reminder that for those of you who’re just a bit too far to attend in person:

FMPug has been posting selected presentation content on the FMPug site, available for FMPug members. You can access it here:

http://www.fmpug.com/fmpugtv/

Ernest Koe’s ProofGroup presentation is up at this URL, as well as Jess Barnum’s presentation, both filmed at the Orlando FL FMPug chapter. Kudos to Andy for putting this together.

Note that you need to join FMPug to access most of the content, but you can see a free 12 minute video introduction by Jesse to get a sense of how it all lays out.

If I haven’t harped on it enough, online videos aren’t the only reason to join FMPug. Here’s a grid of benefits:

http://www.fmpug.com/join.php

A virtual membership will get you into the FMPug site and its benefits; a portion of a Chapter membership goes to support us at PFUG (since we’re a local FMPug chapter), plus eligibility for FMPug member giveaways at meetings (like tonight’s, for example).

- Colin

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Tips and Tricks: Open a FileMaker database using a Hyperlink

By: Jerry Salem

Published on April 27, 2009. 0 Comments

(Editor’s Note: As some of you know I’ve been asking my colleagues to write tips and tricks content for the blog. At some point in the future we may be asking the group community at large for contributor content as well. Jerry is a 9 Certified FileMaker Developer at ITS; he also runs the 101 and Intermediate trainings here. Thanks, Jerry!

– Colin).

One thing that really gets my goat is multiple security gates. If I have already logged into my computer using a login and pw, why do I still have to use another login and password to further authenticate myself when I open my database? Worse yet, sometimes an end user will put in an account/password to get into the computer, then the SAME account/password info to log into the database.

There are a couple of ways around this. Most programmers will tell you, “Use Single Sign On authentication.” FileMaker developers will typically say, “Use an opener file and save the login and PW there.”

Both of these are fine if the situation merits or permits it. Here I present another option. In this case, the end users are not using active directory to manage Accounts. They also don’t want to use an opener file, for a number of reasons that are outside the scope of this document.

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