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Are You Ready for Coaching?

Published on February 14, 2013 by Anders Monsen

Consider team sports. They consist of players on various surfaces and sizes of environment (fields, courts, pitches, etc). The player performs the actions that directly affect whether the team wins or loses. Although not directly involved in the action on the field, virtually every sport includes a coach, someone who comes up with the game [...]

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Free Webinar: Implementing Effective Security

Published on May 15, 2012 by Susan Fennema

Announcing our next free webinar “Implementing Effective Security” on Wednesday, June 6, at 12pm CST. The webinar is part of a series of one-hour lunch-and-learn sessions for intermediate FileMaker Pro users and developers. Implementing a proper security model often requires going beyond controlling whether or not someone can log into a database. FileMaker Pro includes [...]

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Free Webinar: Creating Subsummary Reports

Published on April 17, 2012 by Susan Fennema

Announcing MightyData‘s next free webinar “Creating Subsummary Reports” on Wednesday, May 9 at 12pm CST. The webinar is part of a series of one-hour lunch-and-learn sessions for intermediate FileMaker Pro users and developers. One of the most powerful and useful capabilities of FileMaker Pro is the capacity to group and summarize data in a report [...]

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New Year’s Database Resolution: Backup! (Part 3)

Published on March 2, 2012 by Kirk Bowman

To properly backup your FileMaker databases, the first step is to setup backup schedules in FileMaker Server. The next step is to use best practices with the schedules to make sure your backups are safe. Now you need to enable email notification to keep in you informed whether the backup schedules are running successfully. To [...]

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ImageMagick and FileMaker

Published on February 2, 2012 by Anders Monsen

A few months ago I wrote a piece on image manipulation in FileMaker container fields on Mac OS X. That type of manipulation was relatively simple – rotating an image – but required AppleScript and ImageEvents. What if you required a more complex adjustment of images, such as converting from TIFF to JPEG, or compression, [...]

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New Year’s Database Resolution: Backup! (Part 2)

Published on January 6, 2012 by Kirk Bowman

In part one of this series, I explained the changes I would make to the default backup schedules installed with FileMaker Server—the “what”. Now I want to take a moment and explain the “why” and clarify some points about my recommendations. 23 Hourly Backups – The Hourly schedule is set to keep 23 hourly backups [...]

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New Year’s Database Resolution: Backup! (Part 1)

Published on January 4, 2012 by Kirk Bowman

So, it is a brand new year and everyone is making resolutions for their personal and professional lives. Along with going to the gym and learning to fill-in-the-blank better, I want to challenge you to make a goal to backup your database better. (Hopefully, you are already backing up some.) 

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