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FileMaker UX for Developers at PauseOnError

Notes from Vincenzo Menanno’s session at PauseOnError on FileMaker User Experience (UX) for Developers“, brainstorming how to improve the tools that FileMaker developers themselves use. "I tried to frame the FileMaker UX discussion with this notion of little things make a big difference. Two key aspect to any UI — for end users or developers — are the notions of finesse and refinement. These links to UX/UI resources and examples were provided to get people inspired [and] there were a number of great requests and suggestions which I captured…"
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Charting from the Active Field

A user places their cursor in a field, runs a script, and Presto! A chart appears summarizing the found set of data from the selected field. This technique allows the user to point a chart toward a field of their choosing, so the developer needn't anticipate every field that the user might want to chart.
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Use Replace Field to total found set

I recently needed to total up some records in a found set in a FileMaker solution, but I wanted to keep all the revisions within the scripts so that I could easily migrate the changes from the development system to production. This solution also already had quite a few “special case” calcs and fields, and […]
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Removing intermediate directories

We recently needed to remove the intermediate directories in a large number of parent directories. So, if we started with /A/B/C/D, we wanted to end up with /A/B/D. It seemed simple at the time, so I blithely said “Sure, I can write that easily as a shell script”.
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Stop FileMaker server from script

If you have a FileMaker system and you need to script the processing of adding or removing files on the server, the first problem you are going to come across is: how do I stop the server from a script? You may already be familiar with the fmsadmin command. This is present on both Mac […]
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Top four FileMaker 11 features that improve the user experience

FileMaker 11 is here! Are you ready for the next generation of the world’s most widely used, easy-to-use database? As Platinum members of the FileMaker Business Alliance and long-term beta testers with FileMaker, we’ve been testing the new version of FileMaker for a while now and wanted to share some of what we’ve learned.
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