Beautiful Sankey Diagrams

There are so many times I hear lamentations from stalwart "FileMaker only" developers who declare that you should do everything within FileMaker and FileMaker alone. This is just crazy. It's like saying you should build an entire house with only a hammer and nails. How could you ever do that efficiently? What about the plumbing? The electrical? Well, you can't. You always have to increase what you know and become familiar with other tools and newer technologies.

In this video, I showcase a very compelling use of Javascript within a web viewer. It's because native FileMaker simply can't generate a Sankey flow diagram. FileMaker doesn't do curves, it does data. However, FileMaker can make it happen with the use of Javascript and a web viewer. The best part yet is that it's already been done for us. All you have to do is become familiar with how to modify and integrate with your own data.

That's exactly what this video does. It will teach you how to understand the implementation of this particular Javascript and give you the confidence to integrate other examples as well. If presenting your data with a very compelling visualization is something which you'd like to do, then you'll find the knowledge you need within this video.

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Comments

Hi Matt.

Your last tutorial about messaging (client to client) within FileMaker was in 2006. Any possibility of doing a new one with the latest FM technologies? Thanks.

Shree

MedPro ehf

this is just very cool!
THANK YOU for all your insight and motivation to try out something new.
It's just great!

Fantastic work. Really very clever. As always thanks for your excellent insight and willingness to share. Will definitely look to incorporate this.

Pete Boyce

Hi,

How its possible to display more data via scrollable webviewer element I.e.?

I have the problem to display more data but can not see all at once. Even not able to scroll.
Therefore, is it a way to show the sankey vertical instead of horizontal? Or scrolling via the web viewer element?

Thanks.