Learn how to build mobile apps with FileMaker Go and the FileMaker Platform in the 7 hour video training course. This is a real FileMaker developer who had a question… and we sat him down with our video course.

http://www.rcconsulting.com/FMGO-Training/index.html

Hit the ground running with this 7 hour training course. The videos spans subjects from beginner to advanced topics, including conversations on developing and building your app for commercial distribution.

Downloading a fresh copy of FM Starting Point is always a great way to start a new project…but you shouldn’t have to “key in” all the data from your Excel spreadsheet or other data source.  Watch this video and learn how to import data into FileMaker Pro… and learn the little tricks to keep you out of trouble!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoW7WRRJSEA

This is part 3 of a video series on FileMaker Transactions.  It might be helpful to watch part 1 andpart 2 first. But it’s not required. In this video we took a look at why transactions are important to syncing FileMaker and FileMaker Go. We use GoZync, our fully transactional sync framework, to demonstrate why transactions are so important to sync.

https://www.geistinteractive.com/2014/03/21/syncing-filemaker-transactions/

This video is part 2 of a series on FileMaker Transactions. Part 1, titled “Fixing Slow FileMaker Reports” demonstrated one of the many reasons why transactions are an important part of building multi-user FileMaker apps.  In this video, we break down the simple FileMaker Transaction that we briefly see in part 1.  The video continues with a brief introduction to the low level FileMaker features that are used to build transactions safe scripts.

https://www.geistinteractive.com/2014/03/11/simple-filemaker-transactions-video/

Fixing Slow FileMaker Reports

This video is part 1 in a series on FileMaker Transactions and why you should use them. In this video, we look at a slow FileMaker Report. The report is slow because it is based on unstored calculations. We look at a way to speed up the report, by storing data closer to where the calculation needs to occur.  This lets us create our report using less unstored calculations. The result is a report that is much faster.

However, this opens our solution up to database integrity problems because no we have the same data stored in many places. In theory this is a bad practice. But in the real world of multi-user FileMaker applications running over the internet, it turns out to be something you will need to do.

We solve this problem by employing FileMaker Transactions to make sure that we can reliably keep the de-normalized data in sync.

https://www.geistinteractive.com/2014/03/10/fixing-slow-filemaker-reports/

Behind The Scenes At The Webinar

This was a live broadcast Webinar of our WebDirect optimization video.

If you would like to see the video, click the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T2H1L-f8a4

This video covers what is new in FM Starting Point 4 – a FREE FileMaker template by Richard Carlton Consulting.

This is an introduction video to FM Starting Point, a FREE FileMaker template by Richard Carlton Consulting.

 

ModularFileMaker.org has done really well in 2013.  There are lots of modules available now, and the list keeps growing. One question that we are trying to answer is how do we organize our “Modules” into an “Application?  This is a topic that will likely remain beyond the scope of the Modular FileMaker spec, as it is almost antithetical to the whole approach.  Modular FileMaker specifically stays out of the Application Framework conversation. But in my own projects an organizational pattern is starting to emerge. I thought I would share it.

 

Start With the End in Mind

What I was looking for was a way to work… http://www.geistinteractive.com/2013/12/26/modular-filemaker-app-development/

 

What is FileMaker?

In this overview video, Richard Carlton, CEO of Richard Carlton Consulting, Inc. discusses the FileMaker software platform.

FileMaker Pro is a cross-platform relational database application from FileMaker Inc. that integrates a database engine with a GUI-based interface, allowing users to modify the database to fit their needs.