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

Published on February 24, 2010. 0 Comments

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.

 
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REMINDER: Meeting next Tuesday, February 23 – Solution Case Study: Intuitive workflow for Medical Research using FM 10 Features

Published on February 17, 2010. 0 Comments

Just a reminder; we’re meeting next Tuesday:

Our next meeting will be February 23, at 6 PM, at the IT Solutions office.

David Hollander makes databases for medical researchers. He’ll demo a project for managing lab samples that incorporates cool features in FM10 to make it as intuitive and goof-proof as can be. You’ll see how script triggers, conditional formatting, custom menus, and other interface tricks are put to work. Newcomers will come away learning new techniques; and veterans can compare their own favorite methods to David’s.

David Hollander is a longtime active member of the Philly FileMaker User Group, and we’re pleased to have him present.

You can RSVP here:
http://www.fmpug.com/rsvp.php?eventID=962

 
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Please Join us February 23: David Hollander – Solution Case Study: Intuitive workflow for Medical Research using FM 10 Features

Published on February 8, 2010. 0 Comments

Our next meeting will be February 23, at 6 PM, at the IT Solutions office. An official announce will go out closer to the meeting date, but here’s the blurb:

David Hollander makes databases for medical researchers. He’ll demo a project for managing lab samples that incorporates cool features in FM10 to make it as intuitive and goof-proof as can be. You’ll see how script triggers, conditional formatting, custom menus, and other interface tricks are put to work. Newcomers will come away learning new techniques; and veterans can compare their own favorite methods to David’s.

David Hollander is a longtime active member of the Philly FileMaker User Group, and we’re pleased to have him present.

You can RSVP here:
http://www.fmpug.com/rsvp.php?eventID=962

 
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Tips and Tricks: Arbitrarily Navigating an Array of Fields in FMP 10

Published on February 9, 2009. 0 Comments

To follow up with the presentation from Tuesday night, here is the first of half a dozen or so posts going into more detail on my demo files.

First up, navigating an array of fields in an arbitrary order (as opposed to tab order).

First, a little setup. To make this work you need to give layout object names to all the fields in the array. I just chose array01, array02, etc. so we can do some simple math to find out which object to go to.

Be sure and name and or number all your layout objects.

Be sure and name and or number all your layout objects.

When Filemaker allows us to go to field by name, this solution will be a little more elegant, for now you just need to name the layout objects and your field names can be arbitrary.

More after the jump:

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