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...

FileMaker Cloud Update

FileMaker announced that they have released an update to their new FileMaker Cloud offering. The two elements of this update include: 1. Offering three additional AWS Regions including Canada, Sydney, and Tokyo. 2. The ability to renew the 90-day trial Comodo SSL...

New Office Location for HighPower

HighPower Data Solutions and HighPower Resources LLC are pleased to announce that we have moved to a new office location. We have always been based in the Minneapolis area, and continue to do so. The new offices give us expanded space for our growing team of software...

Case Study: A Digital Construction Equipment Tracker

Northern Dewatering, Inc, is a company based in Rogers, MN which pumps water away from construction and excavation sites. Usually ground water, rain, and melting snow are factors which flood a worksite and make any construction work more difficult. So NDI, ‘dewaters’...

FileMaker and Mobile Apps – Find Your Size!

It used to be that if you wanted to go mobile, you had just one choice in terms of size. But now Apple has released three different sizes of iPads ( 12.7, 9.4, and iPad mini (7.9). As for phone sizes, besides the regular large size, there is also the large Plus sizes...

Five Profit Factors in Your Business

There are five areas in your business which affect your bottom line. They are: 1. Number of Leads each week 2. The percentage of those leads converted to customers 3. The dollar amount of each transaction for one customer 4. The number of transactions per customer 5....

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...