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| Acronym | | Translation |
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| PS | | Perform Script |
| PSoS | | Perform Script on Server |
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DevCon History
Here's a list of the FileMaker Developer Conferences* through 2020:
| # | | Year | | Location |
| 23 | | 2020 | | Nashville, Tennessee** |
| 23 | | 2019 | | Orlando, Florida |
| 23 | | 2018 | | Grapevine, Texas |
| 22 | | 2017 | | Phoenix, Arizona |
| 21 | | 2016 | | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| 20 | | 2015 | | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| 19 | | 2014 | | San Antonio, Texas |
| 18 | | 2013 | | San Diego, California |
| 17 | | 2012 | | Miami Beach, Florida |
| 16 | | 2011 | | San Diego, California |
| 15 | | 2010 | | San Diego, California |
| 14 | | 2009 | | San Francisco, California |
| 13 | | 2008 | | Phoenix, Arizona |
| 12 | | 2007 | | Orlando, Florida |
| 11 | | 2006 | | Orlando, Florida |
| 10 | | 2005 | | Phoenix, Arizona |
| 9 | | 2004 | | Phoenix, Arizona |
| 8 | | 2003 | | Phoenix, Arizona |
| 7 | | 2002 | | Palm Desert, California |
| 6 | | 2001 | | Orlando, Florida |
| 5 | | 2000 | | Palm Desert, California |
| 4 | | 1999 | | San Diego, California |
| 3 | | 1998 | | Monterey, California |
| 2 | | 1997 | | San Jose, California |
| 1 | | 1996 | | Santa Clara, California |
* Name changed to Claris Engage in 2020 to match renaming of FileMaker, Inc. to Claris.
**Due to the COVID-19 virus, this conference was changed to a virtual conference. |
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Almost every single solution I develop requires a method for dealing with text in fields that is purposely or accidentally formatted in browse mode. For better or worse, FileMaker allows users to change text formatting in browse mode via the Format menu. FileMaker also doesn't automatically remove formatting... |
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You've all heard it's going to happen! Releases every quarter rather than every year. Even yearly releases were a shock given the multiple years between release in the previous decade. It may be uncomfortable but it's necessary with the way technology moves in the current day and age. You'll get less with eve... |
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Record locking in a multi-user scenario is easy to control on a single record. Just use the Open Record/Request script step and test for an error 301. If the error occurs, stop the script and present a dialog telling the user they can't run that script right now. If no error occurs, the current user now has c... |
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The story to this solution begins with a client of mine who has complicated contact management needs. Each contact falls into a particular category and not all panes in the Tab Control object need to be shown for each contact. I started off by offering a conditional formula on a standard Tab Control object th... |
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Just because you streamlined your solution during the design phase doesn't mean it's going to react efficiently across a LAN or WAN. You also need to optimize your hardware and network on your FileMaker Server machine. Hardware and networking are usually secondary to proper design but it can make a big differ... |
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Designing a single-user FileMaker solution for efficient display is pretty easy. If it works on your computer, it's likely to perform the same on any other computer. The trouble starts when you share a FileMaker solution with multiple people. The rules change. There's record locking for starters but I've cove... |
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FileMaker 19 contains some features that are going to revolutionize development. With complete Web Viewer JavaScript integration, the ability to create FileMaker apps in the Cloud and a new developer tools for copying schema from one file to another, FileMaker 19 is poised for a massive change. It's the start... |
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Development platforms have come and gone but not FileMaker. Why has it been around for over three decades and why will it be around for more decades to come? If you develop using FileMaker, you probably know the answer already. Even if you do know why FileMaker is so great, I'm going to make some points that... |
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A script that identifies duplicates and deletes them isn't always the best choice. Sure, it works great when you are importing new contacts from a marketing campaign but what if the duplicate comes from an overzealous or lazy employee? Sometimes you need a system for merging a new record with an old one. Whil... |
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I just looked over what happened in the FileMaker world in 2019 and I'm stunned! Doesn't seem like much happened till you consider everything at once. Truly, this has been an eventful and pivotal year for the FileMaker industry. In this article, I'm going to review what happened and what is going to happen at... |
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