Time Saving Developer Tools
How could anyone ever expect to build a house without a hammer? How about throwing an air compressor and nail gun into the mix? Yeah, that's right, you can get a lot more done in a shorter amount of time when you have more powerful tools.
Every occupation has their tools. Typically, created by people within that profession who needed a faster, better way of doing things. A FileMaker database can quickly become a management nightmare. Adding new fields and relationships for new features is a super common task.
The problem is, how do you know you're not already duplicating effort that may already be present? In this video, I walk through some tools I use and others I've tried. While I may not use them all in daily development work, all of them become super helpful when you need what they provide!
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Developer Webviewer
Hi and thank's for a great addition to my developer tools!
I just added the sorting on the fields part, and it was so easy that I wanted to share it with you.
1. Add the custom function "SortList ( ValueList ; Sort ; Type )" by Agnès Barouh. (I am very fond of her functions).
You find it at http://www.briandunning.com/cf/1181
2. At the end of Matt's code in the webviewer change:
--- From ------------------
// Layout fields
"LAYOUT FIELDS";
"";
"" & Substitute (
FieldNames ( Get ( Filnamn ) ; Get ( Layoutnamn ) );
[ ¶ ; "¶" ]
) & "";
--- To ------------------
// Layout fields
"LAYOUT FIELDS";
"";
"" & Substitute (
SortList ( FieldNames ( Get ( Filnamn ) ; Get ( Layoutnamn ) ) ; "Asc" ; "Text" );
[ ¶ ; "¶" ]
) & "";
That is all and makes at least my list much easier to read due to may strict naming conventions with name spaces for different groups of fields.
And once again Matt - many thank's for your great contribution to the developer society :-)
/Micke