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Comment on Filemaker Tips and Tricks: To Maximize or Not to Maximize by Colin Keefe

Colin Keefe — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:26:40 +0000

Hi John,

Yeah, it’s a pity that it isn’t manipulable. Hope this article helped!

Best
Colin

Comment on Filemaker Tips and Tricks: To Maximize or Not to Maximize by John G. White

John G. White — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:51:03 +0000

Interesting helpful article. I came across it while searching for a way to control the MDI window via script step — doesn’t look like it’s possible, which is too bad, because it means you don’t really have control over the size of your document window content area.

Comment on What’s so great about the Modification Date? by Colin Keefe

Colin Keefe — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:25:28 +0000

No worries, I usually have to wait until after my coffee’s brewed before I make any sense!

Comment on What’s so great about the Modification Date? by Brian Randolph

Brian Randolph — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:41:17 +0000

Sorry. Please ignore my previous post. I should learn to wait until morning before asking questions…

Comment on What’s so great about the Modification Date? by Brian Randolph

Brian Randolph — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:54:38 +0000

Hi Jerry and Colin,

Thank you for this post. This seems like the perfect solution to an issue I’m trying to resolve. The only remaining issue is that if the field is cleared, the timestamp disappears.

My issue is precisely what you’ve described above. I have a script that runs nightly (an ultralog archive script in fact) and the mod stamp is always the same. I also have a MySQL database that a web portal uses for its data source. I need a way to push data from FM to MySQL on an hourly basis without having to go through every single record.

Any ideas on how to track a field being cleared as well with this solution?

Comment on Window Dressing by Doug Alder

Doug Alder — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 04:57:03 +0000

Here is a variant of this technique, combining the rename window function with an OnObjectModify script trigger:

http://hbase.net/2012/01/06/window-names/

Comment on Tips and Tricks: Self Tooltipping Fields in Filemaker 10 by How to use Field Comments as Tooltips. | HomeBase Software

How to use Field Comments as Tooltips. | HomeBase Software — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:08:08 +0000

[...] August 31, 2012 by Douglas Alder 0 Comments Good tips for tooltips. I had seen this before but couldn’t remember how to do it. Thank you Google. Thank you Philly FileMaker. [...]

Comment on Building robust error logs in FileMaker 11 by Pablo Ruiz

Pablo Ruiz — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:04:59 +0000

Thank you. This is a lot of information. I’m studying it and implementing this in an already working solution. There’s a lot of work to be done but this will help me troubleshoot error when they happen. It’s an invaluable tool and I’m pretty sure I’ll use this as one of many “Starting points” when I make any new database or project on FM.

Thanks again.

Comment on What’s so great about the Modification Date? by Jerry Salem

Jerry Salem — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:46:17 +0000

Dan

The reason you need the ‘if(field1&field2…’ structure is below;

The best way to think of it is the references force the calculation to refresh.
If you enter or change the value of field1, then the calculation will fire.
If you change a value of a field not related then this calculation won’t fire.

For a better way to track changes of one particular field, see my post on UltraLog (http://www.phillyfilemaker.org/index.php/2011/07/tracking-changes-in-your-database/) from a couple months ago.

Jerry

Comment on What’s so great about the Modification Date? by Dan

Dan — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:40:14 +0000

Cool tip, what’s the logic behind the if(field1&field2&field3…. working? Is it just verifying each time the record is committed that the fields are not null or something?