Super Simple Progress Bars
When FileMaker 12 was released, with new gradient support, I was very excited. Also, with the advent of being able to use conditional formatting to make things invisible, things became even more exciting.
When you now combine one field, one script and some conditional formatting, you can accomplish some SUPER simple, (and I mean SIMPLE) progress bars anywhere you need them within your interface.
This video provides you with the insight and knowledge to take advantage of these new FileMaker 12 features in order to create some very useful progress bars. Small, big, fat, thin, long or short. It's now WAY too easy to integrate progress bars into your FileMaker solution. Watch this video for everything you need to know!
Comments
Integration Details
I've viewed this video a few times now and I'm at a loss as to how it gets integrated with an existing solution. Although you explained the technique fairly well, it's not clear about how to add it to a database. I'm assuming the $totalCount variable ties it to the group of records for which we want to show progress, but it's not really clear. Any additional hints are welcome.
Skipping repetitions
I tried to implement your technique in my solution to add a progress bar in my import from folder script. I've used the count of files to import as the $totalcount but i've found that if it is a low number ( f.i. 26) the script skips some repetitions resulting in a "dotted" bar.
Skipping repetitions 2
Reducing the number of repetitions (in my case 20) solves the problem but now the gaps between repetitions are visible, another solution I thought of is to use a loop that before entering data in a repetition checks if the preceding repetitions are empty and eventually fills them.