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...
by William | Nov 6, 2018 | FM Tips
FileMaker Pro has had support for iBeacons for several years now. But with FileMaker 17, some new functions were added which can capture sensor support from iOS devices. Using a new calculation function mobile apps can capture information from iOS sensors in your iPad...
by William | Nov 6, 2018 | FM News
One feature which I love on my iPhone is the ability to get a notice or reminder when I am near a certain location. For example, if I need to remember to get some medicine next time I drive by Walgreen’s, I can set my phone up with a geo-fence to notify or remind me...
by William | Nov 6, 2018 | HighPower Data News
But don’t worry, they let us out! Recently one department within the State of Minnesota contacted us about a FileMaker application which they used internally in one of the state prisons. Because it was accessible to the inmates, for security reasons it could not have...
by William | Oct 1, 2018 | FM Products
We have several clients who have asked us to create web-based logins for their customers. For example, a printing company in Canada asked us to build a site which would allow their customers to go to the company website, and click on a link that says, “Customer...
by William | Oct 1, 2018 | Mobile
FileMaker 17 has a cool new feature for users of FileMaker Go. It is called iOS Notifications. We are all familiar with the ability of iOS apps to deliver notifications to us when certain requested conditions are met. But until FM17, it was not possible to do that...
by William | Oct 1, 2018 | Business Growth
It is an established fact that those with written goals for their life and business far exceed those who do not. Many studies have been done over the course of years and looked at people just graduating from college. They grouped the graduates by those who had written...
