Estimated Time To Read This: 2 – 3 minutes       I’ve run into the problem a number of times (while developing in FileMaker Pro) that I make a change to some data on one of my layouts, and the related data that I was expecting to see does not instantaneously get updated.  My simple old approach was to use the “Refresh Window” script step that takes advantage of the “Flush cached join results” option.  I’ve recently learned that this can be a very bad practice.  Especially ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 4 – 6 minutes       It’s common among systems that are used by many people of varying security levels, to have buttons on your layouts that some users can execute and others can’t. If you’re designing for such a system, then you’ll probably want to provide the end-users of your system with some kind of visual feedback that will let them know whether or not they can perform those actions. There are various ways of tackling this task, but all of them revolve around defining a ... Read More