Software Spurs Growth

An article in Strategy + Business indicated that many of the world’s largest innovators are shifting their focus of their R&D from products to programming. There is an increasing awareness that automation and ease-of-use can do as much to boost productivity as...

FM Keyboard Shortcuts

There are a ton of available keyboard shortcuts for the FileMaker platform. If you become familiar with the more commonly used key commands, you can save yourself a lot of time while working with FileMaker. In fact, the most recent versions of FileMaker have improved...

Microsoft Web Access Services are Over!

Microsoft has announced they are shutting down web services for MS Access. If you know anyone who is still using Microsoft Access, you would be doing them a big favor to warn them now, so that they have time to switch their business over to FileMaker. See this note...

FileMaker DevCon 2017

HighPower just signed up for, and is headed to the FileMaker Developer’s Conference again this year. We go every year. Why does this matter to you? Because it means that we are staying on the cutting edge of new FileMaker technologies. Our mission is to build powerful...

Clearing Out Global Fields

Here is a great tip from FM Developer, Matthew Dahlquist about clearing out global fields from a server: Typically, when a file is uploaded to FileMaker Server, any global fields which have data in them are retained in the server. If you need to change them, you can’t...