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...

FileMaker 17 – My Apps

You may not have noticed this in FileMaker 17, but there is a very nice new display feature called “My Apps”. Under the File menu there is the usual, “Open”, “Open Recent”, and “Hosts”. But there is also one called “My Apps”. This is basically a ‘favorites’ list. It...

HighPower Staff Developer Focus: Carl Raymond

Sometimes you don’t always know the person behind the voice on the phone. We want you to know who is helping you to automate your business. Carl Raymond has been working with FileMaker for quite a number of years now. He initially started working just as a...

Case Study: Patient Care Solution

Poynton Chiropractic is a chiropractic office based in Cheshire, England. They have two main clinics: The Back Clinic and The Natural Doctor. The Back Clinic specializes in treating joint and back pain as well as migraines. The Natural Doctor offers natural...

Can You Use Desktop Layouts on Mobile?

The answer to that question is a solid “yes” and “no”. Yes, usually, a desktop layout will kind of work on the iPad. But because desktop layouts are not optimized for touch, the user experience can be pretty poor. The reason is mainly because of the size of the fields...

Is Your Business Outgrowing Excel?

Many businesses start with Excel. It is a great spreadsheet program and works wonderfully for what it was designed to do. But that is the catch; it will work great as a spreadsheet program but not as a tool to run your entire business. There are too many features...

FM 17 – What happened to Pro?

You may have noticed a name change with the new FileMaker Pro Advanced 17 release. FileMaker, Inc, used to provide two varieties of their desktop app: FileMaker Pro which retailed for about $329, and FileMaker Advanced which retailed for about $500. The Advanced...

FileMaker links with Shopify

FileMaker now has great web integration technologies. One of those integrations is available for Shopify, which is an eCommerce solution. There is a plugin called “fmECommerce” which will help you with this. fmEcommerce Link (Shopify Edition) v1.1 includes support for...

What Kinds of Businesses Use FileMaker?

I am always impressed by the great variety of businesses which use FileMaker Pro to either track their data or automate their business. Even though we have done this for a long time, there is always some business contacting us which is in a totally new field....