FileMaker: Sharing your Database with Other Devices and Users

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Learn how to properly share your database using FileMaker Network Sharing and FileMaker Server. There are multiple ways to share your database with your co-workers or employees, which is best for you?

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

FileMaker Go Layout Rotations on iPad or iPhone

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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.

How to Import Data into FileMaker Pro

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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

Syncing FileMaker With Transactions Video

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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/

Simple FileMaker Transactions Video

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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

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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

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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

What’s New in FM Starting Point 4?

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

Introduction to FM Starting Point

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

 

Modular FileMaker Application Development

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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/