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Proper Printing in FileMaker WebDirect

THERE HAVE BEEN lots of articles bemoaning WebDirect’s lack of support for printing.  One of the options tossed about is using a robot FileMaker client–a standalone computer running FileMaker dedicated to processing print jobs for all users.  Digital Fusion Weetbickstried this approach, adding a twist that is simple and effective: Display the PDF in a container field, allowing the WebDirect user…

Creating New Records in a #FileMaker Portal With a Twist

JAMES CURRIE of Weetbicks shows off a neat little trick to add rows to a FileMaker portal using the FileMaker 13 field to conditionally hide fields.

Hiding the contents of the last row

We can now specify a simple calculation to hide the contents of the last row. We select all the objects that we want to hide in the last row and specify the “Hide object when” calculation to be:

IsEmpty (…

Cool: Mouse-over #FileMaker Popovers

DANIEL WOOD OF WEETBICKS has extended the work he did with sliding drawers to popovers:

In our last article, we introduced a generic technique that could be used to replicate a mouse-over effect. This used a combination of a custom function, script, plugin and tooltips to allow the user to expand and collapse a sliding drawer control without the need for a mouse-click.

In this article we take…

A VERY COOL example of outside the box thinking from Daniel Wood of Digital Fusion:

The slide control is an exciting new  layout tool introduced in FileMaker 13. Because of it’s primary function of sliding via a swipe, it is built with FileMaker Go in mind. However it is quickly finding it’s place in FileMaker Pro with a number of cool uses for it being introduced into the community.

The slide…