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Using OnModeEnter Script Triggers to Display Custom Find Layouts
Script triggers have in many ways completely changed the game when it comes to Filemaker development. The fact that I can launch script triggers on mode changes opens up a whole slew of possibilities,...
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Script Triggers: Filter as You Type
For years, FileMaker developers have been devising various filter techniques. The idea is that you type all or part of a name, part number, description, etc… and a list of results filters down to show...
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Make the Status Toolbar Work for You
FileMaker 10‘s most visible new feature is the completely redesigned Status toolbar (formerly called the Status area). Perhaps because of its prominent position, or because it is such a striking...
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Script Triggers: Monitoring and Restoring Tabs
FileMaker 10′s new Script Triggers feature just keeps delivering. You might, at first, think triggers are limited to layouts and fields, but it turns out your triggers can fire with all kinds of...
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Dynamic Finds in FileMaker 10
In an earlier article we explored an isolation technique that was specifically designed to work on ID’s and that’s it. There is a lot more that can be done with the new Set Field By Name step and in...
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Using Global Variables for List Selections
A funny thing happened while I was stumped over the question of how to allow one of our clients to select and deselect multiple items in a list. Multiple people would be using the list at the same...
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Six Fried Rice Methodology Part 2 – Anchor Buoy and Data Structures
In the last post about the Six Fried Rice methodology I went over the concept of data separation and why we use it. That is essentially the starting point for how we structure the files of our system....
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Here, at the End of All Things
Let me start by saying: “Ouch.” It has been far, far, far too long since our last article. Someone much wiser than me once said something like this: “My only comfort is that I tried. My only regret is...
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Pop: Goes the…um…Variable
We start our return to semi-regular writing with a small-but-awesome custom function: Pop. If you grew up in the American mid-west like me you might think I’m talking about [soda|soda pop|coke|soft...
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The OnObjectValidate Trigger
FileMaker 11 added just one new object trigger, and it is a strange little dude: OnObjectValidate. This trigger fires after you edit a field, before it is validated. If you thought FileMaker already...
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