by nautilusfm_muk48m | Feb 9, 2020 | Blog, FileMaker Tips, Quick Tips
As developers, we often need to have multiple windows open at the same time but FileMaker simply creates the new window and adds a number to it so you have to remember which is which. This very simple technique allows you to name each new window so you can go the...
by nautilusfm_muk48m | Feb 9, 2020 | Blog, FileMaker Tips, Quick Tips
People who are new to the database world and/or those who come from platforms, i.e., spreadsheets, that don’t support normalized data, often get themselves confused as to what normalization is and why it is needed. In this short video we answer those questions...
by nautilusfm_muk48m | Jan 20, 2020 | Blog, FileMaker Tips, Quick Tips
No matter how much we know or how expert we are, there are always things that we don’t know or have forgotten which might be useful to...
by nautilusfm_muk48m | Jan 19, 2020 | Blog, Downloads, FileMaker Tips, Quick Tips
Many users don’t know that percentages should be entered as a decimal, i.e., for 10%, you would enter .1; for 15%, you enter .15. Instead they enter it as a whole number which then has to be formatted to display the % correctly. This incredibly simple tip will...
by nautilusfm_muk48m | Jan 19, 2020 | Blog, FileMaker Tips, Quick Tips
Both If and Case are calculation functions that have been around for a long time but what is the difference between them and why has IF fallen into...
by nautilusfm_muk48m | Jan 19, 2020 | Blog, FileMaker Tips, Quick Tips
When you want to display all records from a table in a portal, there are two ways to create the relationship; one of them is absolutely the wrong way to do it, The right way is to use a cartesian join and the wrong way, because it’s considerably slower, is to...
