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Locating Matching Records, part 1

Note: FileMaker 12, released a few months after this article was written, introduced a “Find Matching Records” step, effectively eliminating the need for the techniques explored below. Sometimes a...

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Locating Matching Records, part 2

Note: FileMaker 12, released a few months after this article was written, introduced a “Find Matching Records” step, effectively eliminating the need for the techniques explored below (except for the...

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Google Route Mapping, part 1

The other day someone asked a question on the FMP Experts list about plotting a driving route in Google Maps using FileMaker data. Mark Rubenstein posted a simple solution, and my reactions were, in...

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A Simple Backup Script, revisited

In October 2011 I posted a simple backup script that has made my development life easier, but of course that version was for .fp7 files only (the release of FM 12 being six months in the future), and...

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Fixed Width for EDI and Other Reporting

Editor’s note: Today it’s my pleasure to present a guest article written by Beverly Voth. Like many other developers, I have enjoyed and benefitted from her ongoing contributions to the FileMaker...

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Thinking About Value Lists, part 1

In July and August we explored several esoteric value list techniques. This time around, and over the next few postings, we’re going to step back from the cutting edge, identify some common value list...

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Thinking About Value Lists, part 2

In part 1 we explored a particular type of value list: the field-based two-column variety, based on all values, and set to show values from the second column only… …and today’s article assumes...

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Fun with Factorials

A while back my youngest son, who is an avid Go player, asked me, “Is it true there are more possible Go games than there are atoms in the universe?” “Absolutely,” I replied, “Let’s fire up FileMaker...

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Copying and Pasting Layout Schema

Has this ever happened to you? You have a number of identically named fields in two different tables… …but when you copy one of those fields from a layout based on the first table… … and paste it onto...

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Life After Anchor/Buoy

INTRODUCTION Earlier this month I was contacted by a DevCon presenter asking permission to include some slides from my eleven-year old anchor/buoy materials as part of his presentation. I said I’d be...

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