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Merge Letter Templates – Modular FileMaker

Merge Letter Templates If you have ever tried to add a merge field or merger variable inside of a text field, you know it’s not easy to do.  Programmers have done so, but giving clients the ability to craft their own custom letter templates with variables didn’t exist.  Until now.  Thanks to Matthew Leering (and ModularFileMaker.org, of course), it’s now possible to add that capability to your…

Contact Picker – Modular FileMaker

Contact Picker – Modular FileMaker I am currently developing a FileMaker solution that will be cloud based and will have hundreds of thousands of contact records.  There is a need for isolating a specific contact record quickly and then associating that record to the current record.  Drop down and popup menus don’t work well in this environment–the lists are too long and take a while to load and…

Modular FileMaker – List and Record Detail on Same Layout

Todd Giesthas updated his MasterDetail post at Modular FileMaker up to 2.0.  Master Detail allows you to display a list of records in a portal on a layout, and when you select a a record in the portal, shows the details for that record without changing layouts.  This new version shows the the records in the portal in the same orders as the found set in the current table.  He is using a virtual…

Export FileMaker .ics Calendar Files to Mac and PC

Douglas Alder puts his virtual list to good use again (the last time was for vcard export) to export calendar (.ics) files from FileMaker to just about any calendar program.

EXPORT ICS CALENDAR FORMAT FILES

The purpose of this module and scripts are to export an .ics file for importing into Calendar applications. The scripts anticipate Single Event or Batch event export. The Main script has a…

Integrate MailChimp into FileMaker – Modular FileMaker

FMSIMPLICITY just added a new MailChimp module to Modular FileMaker that looks pretty interesting.  If you have a need to integrate FileMaker with MailChimp, this module will get you started:

More than 6 million people use MailChimp to create, send, and track email newsletters. You can now integrate their amazing product directly into FileMaker…

There are currently two dependencies:

1. BaseElemen…

MORE GOOD THINGSfrom Modular Filemaker, this time an updated QuickFind function from Kursiv Software.  As every FileMaker Developer knows, FileMaker has a native QuickFind feature.  So, why not use the built in QuickFind?  One scenario–when the solution requires hiding the status area.  Another is for FileMaker Go applications.  Having QuickFind on the screen saves time and taps.  I’ll bet you…