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Posts Tagged ‘FileMaker-8’

Better FileMaker Comments

By Emile • Jun 26th, 2006 • Category: General

One of the better FileMaker habits has always been to document your code (cause there aren’t that many places to do it) and while the debate is clearly out on whether it’s better to spend the time on documentation or features, I can’t live without my documentation. Most especially, when it comes to FileMaker […]



Linked Fields

By Emile • Jun 14th, 2006 • Category: General

Mikhail Edoshin has posted a great technique on his FileMaker blog (Bits & Pieces) on how to create “linked” fields that are directly editable and update each other to keep them in sync (using v7+ auto-enter capabilities is the trick). His idea is engineered beautifully and he’s nice enough to provide images, demonstration movies/screencasts, […]