1. Anvil is hosting a suite at PauseOnError

    January 24, 2011 by Chuck

    We at Anvil have become huge fans of the PauseOnError, the FileMaker unconference and we decided to pitch in and host one of the suites / meeting rooms at this year’s POE in New York. If you haven’t been to Pause, I highly recommend trying to make it to one as the session format is really more of a guided open discussion and the topics are more widely varied than what you might find at the FileMaker developers conference. At PauseOnError this year, Marshall is leading a round table on growth strategies for FileMaker / bringing new FM users in [...]

  2. You’re Using a Spreadsheet for THAT? When It’s Best to Use a Database

    January 12, 2011 by Anvil

    Here is the link to the webinar held on December 17, 2010 featuring Certified FileMaker Trainer and Developer, Sameer Khan. If you want to know more about FileMaker after watching the video, please register for a free 2 hour preview of FileMaker, to be held on January 26. Visit the events page for more details and to register. Launch in external player

  3. Calendar Events from FileMaker – No Plugin Required

    January 3, 2011 by Sameer

    The other day a client asked me if FileMaker could do something, which I had always believed was impossible to do innately from the program, create calendar events in Outlook. I had always thought I needed to use a plugin to get information from a FileMaker database to Outlook. Now the client didn’t want to use a plugin, they wanted to keep cost down on the system, so it fell on me to find a way to create calendar events through FileMaker based on data in the system. I found a way… It started with a dinner date. Strange, I [...]