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5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker – DevCon 2010 Recap

By: Jason Mundok

On Tuesday evening, August 24, at the IT Solutions office, I shared this video with the Philly FileMaker User Group during our Annual DevCon Recap meeting…having a little fun at DevCon! Thanks for all of those who made cameo appearances and agreed to go on camera (including two FBA Excellence Award Winners!!!)

5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker featuring Lee Lukehart

By: Jason Mundok

Lee Lukehart, SavvyData, has been at the forefront of data visualization for many years. When FileMaker 11 was released with the new FileMaker Charts tool, Lee wrote a white paper and presented a webinar on the feature for FileMaker TechNet members. Lee’s company, SavvyData, also recently put together a couple classes in the San Francisco area on the topics of Charting and Business Intelligence. Lee and I had a chance to chat at the 2010 FileMaker Developer Conference.

Download Lee’s demo from the keynote at savvydata.com.

5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker featuring Mark Richman

By: Jason Mundok

Mark Richman, Skeleton Key, presented a packed session about FileMaker and WAN performance on Monday of the FileMaker Developer Conference. It was so popular he was rescheduled to repeat the session on Tuesday afternoon. Mark joined me for an interview to discuss his session and the latest happenings at Skeleton Key.

5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker featuring Matt Navarre

By: Jason Mundok

Matt Navarre, MSN Media, joined me for a chat at the FileMaker Developer Conference 2010 in San Diego about vertical market solutions, FileMaker’s Quick Find feature, and of course his FileMaker Talk podcast. Matt is moderating several panel discussions at Devcon this year, hopefully a growing trend for future conferences.

5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker featuring Molly Connolly

By: Jason Mundok

On Tuesday, August 17, at the FileMaker Developer Conference I had a chance to chat with FBA Excellence Award winner Molly Connolly, Thorsen Consulting, about several panel discussions that she is moderating at this year’s DevCon. It’s always a pleasure to get a chance to chat with Molly. Hopefully we can get her out to IT Solutions sometime in the months to come for a user group meeting.

5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker featuring Mike Lee

By: Jason Mundok

Mike Lee, Proof Group, joined me for a quick chat Sunday morning to discuss his FileMaker DevCon sessions called SQL to the Rescue about using SQL inside FileMaker solutions. Look for more video interviews and DevCon blog posts throughout the conference from all of the IT Solutions team attending this year’s conference.

5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker featuring John Sindelar

By: Jason Mundok

We’re at the FileMaker Developer Conference 2010 in San Diego, CA getting ready for an excellent week of networking and learning about all of things FileMaker. This afternoon I dusted off the video camera and started lining up a great list of FileMaker experts to spend a few minutes chatting with to see what they have coming up at DevCon and what mind blowing tips and tricks they’re seeing out in the community. I’m kicking off a new batch of 5 Minutes with Philly FileMaker interviews with our good buddy John Sindelar, SeedCode. John is doing his annual Year in Review session Monday morning, which I already know will be a DevCon highlight.

Chad Sager and Colin Keefe are also representing IT Solutions at DevCon. If you’re at the conference, be sure to say hi!

Easy Navigation between Form / List / Table views in FIlemaker 11 using ‘View as:’

By: Jerry Salem

It doesn’t matter what route you take if you don’t have a destination

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Trigger happy

One thing that I really like about the direction that FileMaker has been going in since version 9 has been how the programming environment now encourages of the use of native UI features in FileMaker in highly customized solutions.  Those of us who have been developing prior to FileMaker 9 – or those of us who have inherited solutions built before 9 –  know all too well what it means to lock down the Status Area and then build core UI elements from scratch to replace the lost functionality.  Many developer-hours have been spent to ‘reinvent’ features that were already in FileMaker, but in prior versions couldn’t be modified well enough to work in certain situations.

A clear, obvious example of this is the Toolbar.  Almost every single ‘professional’ system I have worked with by default hides the Toolbar, and then the developer is forced to reinvent the forward and back buttons, the book/rolodex widget, and every other element of the Toolbar using buttons and scripts on the layout itself.  What a waste of time!

In this blog post I’m going to look at one small segment of the Toolbar – the “View As” widget – as an example of how the Toolbar can be leveraged using Script Triggers. Continue reading ‘Easy Navigation between Form / List / Table views in FIlemaker 11 using ‘View as:’’

2/23/10 Meeting recap/video stream: David Hollander

By: Colin Keefe

Thanks to David Hollander for presenting last night!  It was great to have an overview of a real-world solution optimized with 10-specific best practices techniques.

David walked through some techniques we’ve seen applied elsewhere – extensive use of script triggers to drive the UI, modular programming, some real world examples of Set Field By Name.  There was one especially clever use of Custom Menus to create true modal dialog layouts that can’t be closed by clicking the X box.  I’ll ask David to share that one, maybe in an example file.

Video stream recording below.

Jan 2010 Meeting recap: Pause On Error (video)

By: Colin Keefe

Jason Mundok gave a great overview of the Portland PauseOnError Unconference to about 20 folks.  We also hashed out some plans for the Member page of this blog.  Ustream recording below: