Category Archive for "FM Tips"

FileMaker integrates with many applications

We Can Integrate FileMaker with Any Application

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How to Use AI to Analyze Scripts

This article is written for FileMaker developers (or any programmers) about how to use ChatGPT and Lucidchart to analyze a programming script and create a flowchart to diagram the script. Sometimes we are tasked with discovering what a previous developer did. Often, amateur developers do an inadequate job of commenting and describing their scripts.  So, […]

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Seven Ways FileMaker Can Speak for You

or, Why are there so many FileMaker applications with zero commenting?? There are at least seven places within a FileMaker application to place comments so other programmers will know what the intention was with an application. At HighPower Data Solutions, we’ve been doing FileMaker consulting and development for a long time. Because of this, we […]

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New FileMaker Command: Perform Script on Server with Callback

The new feature in FileMaker 2023 called Perform Script on Server will speed up the FileMaker experience for your users.

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New to FileMaker Pro by Claris?

For those who know nothing about FileMaker, this is a quick intro to this amazing software.

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FileMaker Connectivity: Linking FileMaker to Websites Globally

FileMaker can connect with many web services using Claris Connect

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FileMaker Remote

How FileMaker can help your business in the ‘remote economy’ All businesses are in a new reality which we would never have anticipated three years ago. In the past two years, business have allowed their workers to work remotely out of necessity because of lock-downs. But now, in this post-pandemic economy, workers are demanding to […]

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Is FileMaker accidentally deleting my records?

Why a common fear of FileMaker users almost never happens We will sometimes get calls from clients who are concerned that their copy of Claris’ FileMaker is accidentally deleting records. Or sometimes we get the companion, related worry that FileMaker is not saving records they have entered. We will explain why these worries are unfounded. […]

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How Themes Can Speed Up your FileMaker Application

Nobody likes a boring looking application! And that is why people like to add graphics, and colors, and text highlights, and sizes, and lots of other visual enhancements to their application. And there is (almost) nothing wrong with this. An application needs to be aesthetically pleasing or people don’t like using it. Before I get […]

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FileMaker Pro has “Staying Power”

And why that is both good and bad! FileMaker was officially started in April of 1985. That is over 36 years ago! There are not many software programs that are still around since that time. That is something really amazing about FileMaker. It originally started as a DOS-based program before that time, and was called […]

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