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Knowledge sharing is one of our core values: our team members are regular speakers at various FileMaker community gatherings, they also actively participate in technical forums, and contribute to open source projects.
This very blog is also a place where we share with you ideas, technical discoveries, features … and of course some pieces of our everyday lives.
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FileMaker launches its Marketplace
12 September 2019 - Author : admin - Category : Blog, Conference, FileMaker, News
Today Claris launches its FileMaker Marketplace. Guess who got the top spot on the first page? Nutshell Console of course ! The flagship product of the season, cited many times during the last DevCon in Orlando. Beyond this sweet satisfaction, we are very excited about this FileMaker Marketplace. While there isn’t much content at this […]
FileMaker Inc. becomes Claris
7 August 2019 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : Conference, FileMaker, News
A quick note from Orlando, where 1-more-thing’s Romain Dunand and yours truly attend FileMaker DevCon’19, the annual FileMaker developer conference. Brad Freitag, the new CEO – who had previously held the position of sales manager for six years – made some sensational announcements at the inaugural keynote. The most striking is the name change of […]
dotfmp19
11 June 2019 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : Uncategorized
As every year in June, the dotfmp unconference took place in Berlin last week, and as every year, it was the best FileMaker events for geeks. Thank you so much, Egbert, for making this event so interesting and pleasant. 1-more-thing was there with 5 team members (Jean-Frédéric Struyven, Laurent Spielmann, Andries Heylen, Yann Trauchessec and [...]
Quick Find: the forgotten feature
26 September 2018 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : FileMaker, Technique
Released with FileMaker 11, more than 8 years ago in 2010, Quick Find is probably one of the most underestimated features in FileMaker. For some reason, there wasn’t even much emphasis in the product marketing when it was released. Platform evengelists would mention it as a ‘Google-like search engine within FileMaker’, product documentation said ‘search […]
Hierarchal Portals Using ExecuteSQL
27 March 2013 - Author : Fabrice Nordmann - Category : UncategorizedRecently, Doug West, Excelisys, published an interesting and simplified technique to manage hierarchal portals in FileMaker. Still, it relies on a data model that makes the handling of hierarchy difficult (move, duplicate, sort) or impossible (many-to-many relationships…) Here is an alternative based on the very same example (and the same data), using FileMaker 12 ExecuterSQL function, in […]
