by William | Jun 18, 2019 | APPS, Mobile
The Perform Script On Server (PSOS) is one of the most useful tools which FileMaker, Inc has created to enhance the mobile web experience. Just this past month, we had another reason to use it, and I am again thankful that FileMaker, Inc added it way back in version...
by William | Jun 18, 2019 | FM Tips
There are three primary models, or ways of arranging the data architecture in FileMaker Pro. These are: 1. Hub & Spoke (HS) 2. Anchor-Buoy (AB) 3. Selector-Connector (SC) HS has been around for a long time, and is perhaps the oldest and often original method for...
by William | Jun 18, 2019 | HighPower Data News
HighPower Data Solutions takes a portion of our gross income each month and gives it away to charities. We believe that part of why we are here on earth is to do some good for others. In addition to helping businesses be successful through software automation, we give...
by William | May 13, 2019 | Business Growth
J.D. Meier, quotes Thomas Gray who authored “Business Techniques for Growth”. He makes a comparison of how much return you should be getting on various investments. Here’s what he says: 3-4% return on an A-rated corporate bond; hardly any risk. 9-11% return on the...
by William | May 13, 2019 | Mobile
Gone are the days when you can build an app and give no thought to mobile. Since most usage today is on a tablet or a phone, every application is going to need to take this into consideration. The question is not whether or not your users will access on a mobile...
by William | May 13, 2019 | FM Tips
A nice change which they made in FileMaker 17 is an enhancement to the Master-Detail portal. If you don’t know what that is, a Master-Detail portal is a UX design in which a portal is on the left-side (typically) of the screen, and displays all the records for that...
by William | May 13, 2019 | FM News
Google has recently changed their rules on usage of their maps on apps like FileMaker. Any application which wants to access their mapping system will have to pay for it now. The good news is that the price has been made more affordable than in the past. But the bad...
by William | Mar 13, 2019 | Mobile
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...
by William | Mar 13, 2019 | Business Growth
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...
by William | Mar 13, 2019 | FM Tips
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...
by William | Mar 13, 2019 | HighPower Data News
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...
by William | Jan 22, 2019 | FM Products
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...
by William | Jan 22, 2019 | 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...
by William | Jan 22, 2019 | Business Growth
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...
by William | Jan 22, 2019 | FM Tips
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...
by William | Jan 22, 2019 | FM News
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...
by William | Jan 22, 2019 | HighPower Data News
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....
by William | Nov 6, 2018 | FM Products
If you have built out your FileMaker product and are ready to sell it to your target users, there is one step you need to do before you start: You need to decide how you will handle software support questions. As soon as you release your new software to the world, you...
by William | Nov 6, 2018 | Mobile
A nice mobile app we designed recently, let’s construction workers log into the job while they are out in the field. Now any worker with a phone, whether iPhone or Android, can open up their phone, and “clock in” on the job. It is very cool. They tap on the special...
by William | Nov 6, 2018 | Business Growth
Having a good funnel system is a bit tricky. One the one hand it needs to have enough steps to create meaningful interactions with prospects at each stage. On the other, it cannot have too many or be too complicated. Some of the many multi-step options out there are...
