I just finished Claris Engage 2024 and said goodbye to my friends and colleagues. It has been a wonderful three days filled with the joy of discovery, learning and sharing. I almost forgot how good it is to connect with so many people who share the same passion for the craft and the platform.
Formatting Claris FileMaker Layouts is a Slippery Slope Creating pixel-perfect Claris FileMaker layouts is hard. Keeping it pixel-perfect through all future releases is harder. I’ve spent tons of time carefully positioning every object to make the layout look perfect. Then, the moment I update the content of a label, or change the text orientation of …
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According to Claris’ FileMaker Pro Release Notes for Version 20.3.1, Flush includes the following three values:1. Always: When setting a field within a loop, the relationship is flushed along with the join data.2. Minimum: When setting a field within a loop, minimal data is flushed.3. Defer: When setting a field within a loop, data and …
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Oops, I Messed Up the Locale Settings of My App A few weeks ago, I used the latest version of the FileMaker Data Migration Tool (FM DMT) to do a deployment. As a chaos monkey myself, I added the -target_locale parameter to my command line and set it to “System” and thought it would keep …
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The FileMaker Data Migration tool (FM DMT) is a great tool that helps developers conduct deployments. To learn how to use the FM DMT, check out our video here: FileMaker Best Practices: The Data Migration Tool. After using the FM DMT to migrate data from one file to another, it is a good practice to …
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QuickBooks is one of the most popular accounting software options. Naturally, there is a lot of interest around integrating custom FileMaker solutions with QuickBooks to avoid duplicate data entry and to streamline workflows. Since Intuit (the developer of QB) has stopped supporting QuickBooks Desktop and is encouraging its customers to move to the cloud-based QuickBooks …
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Claris Releases Roadmap Update On August 29, 2023, Claris released a statement on its product roadmap with several key updates. The newest updates reference a previous Claris roadmap statement, which announced the genesis of Claris Studio. Claris Studio is a cloud-native web application builder designed to complement FileMaker solutions. Claris Studio uses a Claris ID …
How to Fix Index Corruption in FileMaker How do I know if my FileMaker database has index corruption? There are two recognizable symptoms of index corruption in a FileMaker database: Suppose you have verified that both the data and the code are correct, but you cannot find a logical explanation for why one of the …
At the beginning of the project, at the project kickoff meeting, the big boss walks into the room and tells everyone that we need the project done by the end of the fiscal year, six months from now.
Team morale is high. Why wouldn’t it be? We still have all of our budget. The team we put together seems quite eager and competent. Everything will be fine.
Did we mention it’s free? This article documents all the necessary steps to build your first Claris Connect Flow, starting from the very beginning. By following along, you can start to harness the power of automation and integration with Claris Connect in three easy steps. Step 1: Get Claris Connect for Free Want to see …
