Very good instructional video Matt. I noticed something which is worth mentioning when describing how to get help when learning about functions and script steps... At the 31:30 mark you importantly explain the short bit of help at the bottom, but in addition to that there is a direct link to Filemaker's FULL Help system: Click the question mark "?" next to the word "Description" just above the short bit of help area.
Video marker 19:32 you mentioned a key expansion tool to time stamp a script comment. Please explain in detail, I think quickly/easily time stamping script comments is very useful and important. Thank you for the how to videos, they are very helpful and educational... keep up the amazing work.
I just found your videos. The first thing you covered in this video is exactly one of the issues I have thought about before, record ID and the use of that in relationships etc. Thanks!
Great content Matt - thank you for sharing - love gaining all of your insights for why you do something in addition to seeing how to do it. I would love to see you go through process of creating and duplicating scripts to generate various reports to pull, sort, and summarize data in reports that can be shared as PDFs or Excel. {Source data is imported from many Excel files}. Maybe you have something out there already?
Heya! Just got started with FileMaker, and your videos are VERY helpful for me. My work uses FileMaker for nearly everything, except for the department that I am in. So I recently decided to take on the challenge of creating a FileMaker database for our use. I've learned a lot, but I still have so much more to learn. One of the things that I have been struggling with is the use of portals, and trying to create an order form layout that I can add line items to. If you are looking for a subject for a future video I would love to know more about these! Please and thank you!
Just clicking on the "?" next to calculation step name sends you immediately to the documentation of that item so you dont have to manually open "help" and enter a keyword to search and hunt around for that item
Hi Matt, I love your content both here and on the magazine site. It’s has been extraordinarily helpful while developing my first solution. You had mentioned in a video that you have a script that opens additional windows for you while developing to your optimal setup, could you do a video on how you accomplished that? Would be a huge time saver.
Thanks for all this info! I am a subscriber, also, but love seeing stuff like this. Do you have some more info on the ‘Launcher’ system that you were starting? Would like to dig into that!
I do watch and am a subscriber and have a question on how to do something in FileMaker. Having not really used it now for 4 years after building a WorkOrder System at pre-retirement job, I have become a bit rusty and was 3 versions behind. As a preview - I reload ammo - I would like to create a part of a solution that will create a table that I can print as a label to add to ammo box. I want to label each slot in the ammo box - say a 10x10 matrix - with the amount of powder for that particular cartridge. For example - I want to make 25 total cartridges. 5 cartridges at 41.2 grains of powder, then another 5 @ 42.5 grains and so on. These numbers will come from a request for a new - what we call - ladder tests. In the solution I will ask for number of rounds you want to use - how many have this amount of powder and do the same by increasing next batch of ammo by say .5 grains. As I get off on a tangent. So now I have loaded all my cartridges and placed them into box in neat little organized rows and columns. Now I need the label to print out the matrix and label each slot with corresponding loads so I can keep track of them when out at the range. Probably rambling here - as I know you can relate - but if you could just give me a hint to jumpstart my aging brain on how to adapt this into a reloading solution. I am up to date with FM Versions. I hope mentioning ammo doesn't get you demonetized... After I get that under my belt I'll be picking your brain about importing csv files created by a chronograph that records my velocities. Then graphs and tables - YES ! Thanks Matt for sharing your knowledge.
I would hope the simple mentioning of ammo doesn't trigger anything ridiculous. But what you are wanting to do is certainly possible. It may even make for a great video. I'll have to consider shooting something live showing how to do this. Do you have the starting of a solution which has some basic data in it that you could share. I could then do the solution live.
@@filemakermagazine Hey Matt. Thanks for the potential opportunity of getting a ‘custom’ tutorial. Maybe we can refer to the projectiles as seeds. At this moment most of this is in the deep thought mode and I’d have to be sure to come up with a somewhat acceptable start to a solution so as to not embarrass myself too much. It wouldn’t be hard. Let me get my stuff a little more together and temporarily retire from my retirement and try to show you what I’m looking for. Just keep this in mind for a little while. Appreciate your response and the efforts you put into your videos and website. There are plenty of us out there that need and apply your wisdom.
Hi, Thanks for the great videos! I really would like to email contacts on a regular basis, using html email, filled by filemaker. Eg on a date. No idea to do this. I use the last version of FM. Thanks, Ronald
Thank you for show the effort to train people new to FileMaker!
Thank you for providing tools and resources for those of us developing with FileMaker.
Very good instructional video Matt. I noticed something which is worth mentioning when describing how to get help when learning about functions and script steps... At the 31:30 mark you importantly explain the short bit of help at the bottom, but in addition to that there is a direct link to Filemaker's FULL Help system: Click the question mark "?" next to the word "Description" just above the short bit of help area.
Great tip. Since I mostly use Dash, I'm not familiar with taking that approach. That will help a lot of other people!
Video marker 19:32 you mentioned a key expansion tool to time stamp a script comment. Please explain in detail, I think quickly/easily time stamping script comments is very useful and important. Thank you for the how to videos, they are very helpful and educational... keep up the amazing work.
I just found your videos. The first thing you covered in this video is exactly one of the issues I have thought about before, record ID and the use of that in relationships etc. Thanks!
Thanks for the great tips..... Always learning new ways of doing things in FM. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos.
Glad it was helpful!
Great content Matt - thank you for sharing - love gaining all of your insights for why you do something in addition to seeing how to do it. I would love to see you go through process of creating and duplicating scripts to generate various reports to pull, sort, and summarize data in reports that can be shared as PDFs or Excel. {Source data is imported from many Excel files}. Maybe you have something out there already?
Heya! Just got started with FileMaker, and your videos are VERY helpful for me. My work uses FileMaker for nearly everything, except for the department that I am in. So I recently decided to take on the challenge of creating a FileMaker database for our use. I've learned a lot, but I still have so much more to learn. One of the things that I have been struggling with is the use of portals, and trying to create an order form layout that I can add line items to. If you are looking for a subject for a future video I would love to know more about these! Please and thank you!
Just clicking on the "?" next to calculation step name sends you immediately to the documentation of that item so you dont have to manually open "help" and enter a keyword to search and hunt around for that item
Informative and instructive, much appreciated Matt
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Matt, I love your content both here and on the magazine site. It’s has been extraordinarily helpful while developing my first solution.
You had mentioned in a video that you have a script that opens additional windows for you while developing to your optimal setup, could you do a video on how you accomplished that? Would be a huge time saver.
And now I am watching your Narrow vs Wide tables video and repetitions - so that may have sparked me a tad. But Still add your twist. Thanks
Thanks for all this info! I am a subscriber, also, but love seeing stuff like this.
Do you have some more info on the ‘Launcher’ system that you were starting? Would like to dig into that!
Sure, that sounds like a great thing to continue on with!
I do watch and am a subscriber and have a question on how to do something in FileMaker. Having not really used it now for 4 years after building a WorkOrder System at pre-retirement job, I have become a bit rusty and was 3 versions behind.
As a preview - I reload ammo - I would like to create a part of a solution that will create a table that I can print as a label to add to ammo box. I want to label each slot in the ammo box - say a 10x10 matrix - with the amount of powder for that particular cartridge. For example - I want to make 25 total cartridges. 5 cartridges at 41.2 grains of powder, then another 5 @ 42.5 grains and so on. These numbers will come from a request for a new - what we call - ladder tests. In the solution I will ask for number of rounds you want to use - how many have this amount of powder and do the same by increasing next batch of ammo by say .5 grains. As I get off on a tangent. So now I have loaded all my cartridges and placed them into box in neat little organized rows and columns. Now I need the label to print out the matrix and label each slot with corresponding loads so I can keep track of them when out at the range. Probably rambling here - as I know you can relate - but if you could just give me a hint to jumpstart my aging brain on how to adapt this into a reloading solution. I am up to date with FM Versions.
I hope mentioning ammo doesn't get you demonetized...
After I get that under my belt I'll be picking your brain about importing csv files created by a chronograph that records my velocities. Then graphs and tables - YES !
Thanks Matt for sharing your knowledge.
I would hope the simple mentioning of ammo doesn't trigger anything ridiculous. But what you are wanting to do is certainly possible. It may even make for a great video. I'll have to consider shooting something live showing how to do this. Do you have the starting of a solution which has some basic data in it that you could share. I could then do the solution live.
@@filemakermagazine Hey Matt. Thanks for the potential opportunity of getting a ‘custom’ tutorial. Maybe we can refer to the projectiles as seeds. At this moment most of this is in the deep thought mode and I’d have to be sure to come up with a somewhat acceptable start to a solution so as to not embarrass myself too much. It wouldn’t be hard. Let me get my stuff a little more together and temporarily retire from my retirement and try to show you what I’m looking for. Just keep this in mind for a little while. Appreciate your response and the efforts you put into your videos and website. There are plenty of us out there that need and apply your wisdom.
Hi,
Thanks for the great videos!
I really would like to email contacts on a regular basis, using html email, filled by filemaker. Eg on a date. No idea to do this.
I use the last version of FM.
Thanks, Ronald
Sounds like a good topic for a video.
This content today is what I most needed. Thanks.