#homebase software

Display Formatted Text Using GetAsCSS

The GetAsCSS function has been around since FileMaker Version 7, and I have to admit to never having used it before a few days ago.  I recently integrated CloudMail (from 360Works) into a FileMaker project, and for version 1 my client was planning text only emails.  Jesse Barnum noted in his video that basic html could be quickly achieved use the GetAsCSS function, so I did some experimenting.…

FileMaker Go 14: Keeping Button Bars and Slide Panels in Sync

Douglas Alder extends his mortgage calculator example by adding tab panel emulation… Someone recently suggested (a blog, at DevCon? Sorry I lost my source on this one.) using the combination of FileMaker 14’s new button bar with a Slide Panel to emulate a tab panel. Why bother you ask? Well you get the cool slide animation effect when using Slide Panels. iOS users are increasingly used to the…

Free Mortgage Calculator for FileMaker Go 14

Douglas Alder made a pretty slick free mortgage calculator for the iPad and iPhone: I’ve downloaded and tried a few iOS mortgage calculators, but none of them seemed awesome or flexible enough, so I decided to make one for FileMaker Go. It is unlocked so you can modify it to your location and preferences. Any amazing ideas or suggestions, if you send them back to me, I will try to incorporate…

Alphabetical Search Button Bar in FileMaker 14

Douglas Alder of Homebase software puts the button bar through it’s paces and delivers a great looking, easy to build, reusable on multiple layouts with only one script, Alphabetical Search Button Bar: FileMaker Pro 14’s new button bar brings a new twist to an old technique for creating alphabetic searches of your data. Instead of creating 26 individual buttons it is possible to create a single…

Integrate Google Map Long. & Lat. to FileMaker

Very cool example of some of things you can make FileMaker do when you are willing to work with another programming language.  In this case Doug Alders is using Javascript to grab data from google maps and move it into FileMaker: Using a Javascript overlay on Google Maps and FileMaker’s URL scheme to channel those coordinates into FileMaker records. Click on a map, add longitude and latitude to…

A FileMaker Minor Datacalypse is Coming

Douglas Alder has an interesting and informative post on the effects of FileMaker ending support forFileMaker Pro 11 this coming September:

I have written before about the need to stay current with FileMaker Pro, operating systems and hardware. I recently received an email from a reader who asked:

Between me and a colleague we built a large database with all the bells and whistles back in the…

FileMaker Go on an iPod Touch | HomeBase Software

Douglas Alder walks us through setting up a iPod touch with FileMaker Go and integrating it with an existing database for use in a shipping receiving yard:

Recently I was asked to take over another developer’s project. The customer, who runs a shop building things, had been happy with the other fellows work, but the developer had taken a full time job, leaving the customer with FileMaker…

An Alternate to Google Maps? Not Entirely. #FileMaker

DO YOU HAVE an interest in integrating mapping into FileMaker?  Douglas Alder, of Homebase Software, has the information you need and a demo database you’ll want to download. Alder has written in the past about using the google map API with FileMaker, and now adds an alternative:  OpenStreetMaps and the Leaflet.marketcluster.js javascript library. The biggest advantages:

a more modern look

animat…