Follow US on TwitterWhenever you use a script to place the cursor into a portal field, you must always be aware of your position. Whenever you manipulate anything outside of the portal fields, your position moves out of the portal. One of the first things that a new FileMaker developer will notice is that you can’t modify a portal row, commit records, and then try to access the next row. Once you commit, your position in the portal disappears and you’re back in the focus of the main record. If you go to the next portal row from there, you’ll simply go to [...]
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Moving Within Portals
December 11, 2009 by admin
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Basics of FileMaker Debugging Part 2 – Scripts
December 4, 2009 by adminHaving FileMaker Pro Advanced dramatically helps reduce debugging time. For those who aren’t aware, along with its many other benefits, FileMaker Pro Advanced provides: *Script Debugger: allows you to traverse through any executed script step-by-step *Data Viewer: allows you to check the value of any field, variable, or random calculation of your choice at any given point (including during the middle of Script Debugger) After activating Tools->Script Debugger, you’re now ready to debug scripts. You can start a script with a script trigger from any object or from the layout itself. Or you can activate it through a traditional button [...]
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Consolidating FileMaker users in a large organization
December 3, 2009 by ChuckLately at Anvil we have been helping some of our customers at large organizations consolidate their users. FileMaker solutions are most frequently used in the work group and department levels in larger organizations. We have found especially in universities that many different groups of users are not really aware that there are many other FileMaker users in their midst. Once users are aware of each other, the natural tendency is to form a user group. User groups inside of organizations serve as a wonderful resource. The members tend to be more familiar with aspects of issues than FileMaker users outside [...]