Going Mobile is No Longer Optional

Gone are the days when you can build an app and give no thought to mobile. Since most usage today is on a tablet or a phone, every application is going to need to take this into consideration. The question is not whether or not your users will access on a mobile...

FM 17 Master-Detail Portals

A nice change which they made in FileMaker 17 is an enhancement to the Master-Detail portal. If you don’t know what that is, a Master-Detail portal is a UX design in which a portal is on the left-side (typically) of the screen, and displays all the records for that...

Has Google Maps stopped working in your FileMaker solution?

Google has recently changed their rules on usage of their maps on apps like FileMaker. Any application which wants to access their mapping system will have to pay for it now. The good news is that the price has been made more affordable than in the past. But the bad...

FileMaker Go Hits 4 Million Downloads!

FileMaker announced recently that there have been 4 million downloads of their mobile application, FM Go! on the iTunes App Store. This is really an amazing number. This shows the incredible interest people and business have in having mobile access to their data. What...

Use a Workplace Innovation App to Grow your Business

FileMaker has recently been branded as a “Workplace Innovation App”. That is, it is a complete platform which can be deployed across every type tool needed for your business: on the web, desktop, iPad, iPhone, or any tablet using custom web publishing. It is called...