Geist Interactive’s Barcode Creator is a great companion tool for FM Starting Point 4.2. By copying in a few scripts, you can be scanning barcodes in less than a minute!

Purchase Barcode Scanner from Geist Interactive here:
https://www.geistinteractive.com/products/filemaker-barcode/?giref=1

Download FM Starting Point here:
http://www.fmstartingpoint.com

Download the FileMaker Pro 13 Video Training Course here:
http://www.learningfilemaker.com

Richard Carlton Consulting, Inc. provides customized database development services for business, government, and non-profit organizations. Our core competency is FileMaker Pro, where we hold FileMaker’s highest certifications. With a team of 27 staff, we are capable of deploying both small and large solutions for a wide variety of customers. We service all modern versions of FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server, and FileMaker Go (for the iPad and iPhone). We also deploy FileMaker databases to the web, and offer PHP/Web Development, iOS Programming, FileMaker Server Support, and Hosting Services.

http://www.learningfilemaker.com

Please feel free to contact us at support@rcconsulting.com

New in FM Starting Point version 4.1 is a sales followup system. This powerful addition gives users the ability to notate when they would like to next contact a person, as well as assign a specific staff to perform the followup. This new feature implements some of the latest cool features in FileMaker Pro 13.

Want to learn FileMaker Pro?
http://www.rcconsulting.com/FMPro-Training/index.html

Richard Carlton and Sam Barnum, of 360Works, discuss the latest version of the 360Works Email Plugin.
*Live from FileMaker DevCon 2014 in San Antonio, Texas*

Richard Carlton Consulting, Inc. provides customized database development services for business, government, and non-profit organizations. Our core competency is FileMaker Pro, where we hold FileMaker’s highest certifications. With a team of 27 staff, we are capable of deploying both small and large solutions for a wide variety of customers. We service all modern versions of FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server, and FileMaker Go (for the iPad and iPhone). We also deploy FileMaker databases to the web, and offer PHP/Web Development, iOS Programming, FileMaker Server Support, and Hosting Services.

http://www.rcconsulting.com/

Please feel free to contact us at support@rcconsulting.com

A look at how to easily change the currency type of your FM Starting Point number fields.

Depending on your target audience, you will want to export your record data in a specific format. The most popular options are tab separated, comma separated, and Excel.

Richard Carlton Consulting, Inc. provides customized database development services for business, government, and non-profit organizations. Our core competency is FileMaker Pro, where we hold FileMaker’s highest certifications. With a team of 27 staff, we are capable of deploying both small and large solutions for a wide variety of customers. We service all modern versions of FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server, and FileMaker Go (for the iPad and iPhone). We also deploy FileMaker databases to the web, and offer PHP/Web Development, iOS Programming, FileMaker Server Support, and Hosting Services.

http://www.rcconsulting.com/

Please feel free to contact us at support@rcconsulting.com

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/

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.