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Oct 13-15, 2010

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FileMaker International today launched its fourth annual CubeAwards 2010 – FileMaker Developers of Excellence competition, in partnership with IT PRO. Developers from the UK and beyond are invited to submit entries that demonstrate innovative uses of FileMaker technology... - (FileMaker International)

FileMaker, Inc. today announced the Bento 3 Project Manager, a new set of templates designed to make it easy for Mac users to track their personal projects and manage their time within one integrated, intuitive place. The Bento 3 Project Manager includes a free 30-day trial of the popular Bento 3 personal database for Mac, plus two professionally designed, ready-to-use templates.

Clickware announced today that they have released the first set of free training videos geared toward end-users of FileMaker Pro... The initial 4 videos are part of Clickware's "End User Training Series" and cover finding data, replacing data, importing data and exporting data... - (Clickware)

The new Zulu plugin for FileMaker server lets you manipulate your FileMaker calendar records from any iCal compliant application, including iCal itself, as well as from the calendars on your iPhone and iPad. Zulu isn't "syncing" your data: when you see or edit a record in iCal or on your iPhone or iPad, you're working directly with the FileMaker records on your server. So there are no worries about your data getting out of sync... - (SeedCode)

Dear FileMaker developers, We would like to give you notice that FMDiff 2.0 for Macintosh has been released at Devcon. The Windows version will take two more weeks... - (Huslik Verlag GmbH)

Now available for download, Bento 3 Contact and Customer Manager is the fast, free, and easy way to get instant access to contact and customer details. View call history, notes from meetings and conversations, upcoming to-do items, related documents and files, important emails, sales opportunities, receipts, and more. This download includes a free trial of new Bento 3 for Mac.

The course that teaches all you need to know to make FileMaker Pro your friend is coming to Lincoln, NE. This three day FileMaker Training Series course is focused on giving attendees the most valuable information possible. No puff and no fluff, just 'meat and potatoes' FileMaker. A full description of the course follows... - (Skeleton Key)

A new article was just posted on the myFMbutler blog, "AutoSender 3 Public Beta now available". On the myFMbutler blog, you'll find not only background information about myFMbutler products, but also tips about such features as Conditional Formatting, Custom Functions, Script Trggers etc... - (myFMbutler)

SUI Solutions today announced the launch of Vedatrak 2.1 Online Help, a usage resource for its newly released FileMaker CRM solution.  Vedatrak 2.1 is a uniquely modular, FileMaker based solution that allows customers to pick and choose existing components called modules to create the CRM system that's perfect for their business... - (SUI Solutions)

Dracoventions announces the release of 2empowerFM Text Toolkit 2.2 with rewritten documentation and examples.  Best of all, this FileMaker(R) Pro and Server plug-in is now absolutely free, no strings attached... - (Dracoventions)

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.  One file contains all of the UI components and scripts for the system while a second file [...]

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 time.  I was struck by the fact that I’ve been making something more complicated than it needs [...]

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 this article we’ll take a look at a slightly more complex but much more versatile [...]

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 objects. In this article we’ll show you how to run scripts when users switch tabs on your tab controls. In the end, [...]

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 departure from a 20-year FileMaker mainstay, this change has been met with its fair share of controversy. In this article we’ll show you why you [...]

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 relevant matches. As handy as these techniques are, they always stop just short of perfect because, before FileMaker 10, you [...]

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, one of which is being able to have a huge amount of control over where my users end up and what [...]

Just a quick announcement for those of you in the Phoenix area. I’ll be presenting FileMaker Pro 10 with a focus on practical uses for Script Triggers at the next Phoenix FMPug meeting. We’d love to see you there. Update 10-Jan-2009: I added a link to the RSVP form. When: January 20th, 2009 at 6:30 [...]

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 drinks]. But I’m actually talking about stacks. In the computer science world, pop means to take something off the top of a list, and [...]