Recently I presented Inspector Pro by Beezwax to our development team during our weekly Innovation Meeting. Most of our team is familiar with BaseElements by Goya and I wanted to expose them to another tool. Personally, I have been using Inspector since it was called Analyzer in the FileMaker 6 days. As a result, I [...]

PHP is a fairly flexible language, where developers can create sites using linear or procedural code, or complex object-oriented code. The fact that you need to type most of your code and understand a new syntax is daunting to anyone, especially FileMaker developers who are used to the built-in GUI, native script steps, and pre-existing [...]

In many cases, FileMaker databases get data from outside sources: Quickbooks, Excel, SAP, etc. Based on the way those external spreadsheets or systems are setup, the data may or may not be in the format that FileMaker wants it. Here’s where we start dealing with the issue of parsing. Parsing entails taking something that’s all [...]

With the recent release of FileMaker Go 1.2.1, I created a video showing some of the top features of the new version: Print & Save as PDF – The new version of FM Go allows users to Print via AirPrint. Additionally, the features for Save as PDF have greatly improved to accomodate sliding. This is [...]

Recently, we were engaged by a customer to provide consulting and coaching to their team of three in-house FileMaker developers. As part of the initial review, we created a DDR of their database and tried to import it into BaseElements. Shortly after starting the import, BaseElements displayed an error message saying the file may be [...]

Recently I was asked whether it is possible to rotate an image in a FileMaker container field. As far as I know this only is possible by exporting the image, using another application to rotate the image, and then re-importing it back into FileMaker. This solution would exist only in a Mac OS X environment, [...]

I have been thinking lately about the concept of Why. You may have seen the video of the TED Talk by Simon Sinek. The concept is simple. If you know and clearly communicate your Why, you can inspire team members and customers. 

Have you, as a project manager, ever tried to figure out why a deadline will be missed on a large project only to discover that the developer couldn’t say “no” when a customer asked for additional items without your knowledge?