FileMaker Container Fields

Many people know that FileMaker has a special field called a Container field, which allows you to insert a file into it, and store it within FileMaker. This makes FileMaker a great document storage system. But some people do not realize that while it is great for...

New FileMaker 16 Book Released

“Learning FileMaker 16” There has been a new book published by Apress, and authored by Mark Munro called “Learn FileMaker Pro 16”. It is not very often that FileMaker book gets published, so if you want to get this you can buy softcover for $49.99 or the ebook for...

New Developers at HighPower Data

HighPower Data Solutions is pleased to announce the availability of additional developers to serve your needs. Besides Carl who was added as a full-time FileMaker developer in August, we are now adding Ben. Ben is another full-time developer. He will be doing...

Case Study: Gourmet Bike Tours in Europe

This is a company that contacted us from Switzerland. Dig-n-go provides “gourmet” bike tours all over Europe. This company was started by two brothers and when we met up, they were trying to run their entire company using Bento. Bento was FileMaker Inc’s attempt at...

Three Mobile Display Options for You

The FileMaker Pro platform has truly become a full computing platform which provides a “blank slate” upon which you can create and meet your various business needs. Take, for example, just the ‘simple’ option of providing a mobile business software option. Because of...

Do you know your Prospect Win Rate?

Sometimes called the Customer Conversion Rate, this is the percentage of Prospects who you are able to convert to an actual sale so that they become your customers. Some businesses will have a very high conversion rate, and some will have a low one, depending on the...

FileMaker Tip – Toggle On/Off ; Stop/Go; True/False

There are a lot of little features in FileMaker Pro which are simple to implement and just make your application a little easier to use. One of these is the ability to specify the display value of a boolean value. Since a boolean is either 1 or 0, it may seem like if...

FileMaker Benefits

Just what are the key benefits of a FileMaker application? Here is what FileMaker, Inc has stated is their primary benefits and focus: 1. FileMaker Cloud Using Amazon Web Services anyone now can have cloud access to all of their data. 2. Mobility FileMaker Go is the...

FileMaker HOSTING

HighPower Data has been able to coordinate the hosting for some of our clients, and we can do the same for you. Using either FileMaker Cloud on Amazon Web Services, or other third-party hosting companies, we can manage all aspects of your FileMaker Hosting needs. Many...

Four Quick Steps to Start Beta-Testing Your Product

If you are building a FileMaker application which you are going to sell to the general public, or to a niche section within an industry, then you are going to eventually need to do some beta-testing. In order for this to be successful, there are a few elements you...