Estimated Time To Read This: 3 – 5 minutes       Cinema influences us all; from programmers to account managers, to educators and so on, you’d have to be living at the centre of the earth to survive a day without reference to a classic film or quip from a favourite flick.  With the upcoming release of PD Place version 3.8.4 just around the corner, I thought I’d have a little fun with this blog and present you with the top 3 films that provide insight into what PD Place can do for your organization. 300 ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 1 – 2 minutes       With each new version of PD-Place, many new and exciting features are added. These features range from minor adjustments to large scale changes. How does the PD-Place team determine what new features are added? When the PD-Place team receives a new feature request, the request is recorded in a list of changes. This list of changes is reviewed by the PD-Place team between releases. If the request is a feature that many clients will find useful, the feature is ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 2 minutes       Since 1999 CoreSolutions has published FileMaker Naming Standards. These standards are developed in an effort to share the efficiencies we’ve realized over the years by using a cohesive set of naming rules that make our systems recognizable by any of our developers, even in systems a decade old. When FileMaker Inc. published their FileMaker Development Conventions white paper in 2005, CoreSolutions was part of the team of independent developers that made that happen. It ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 2 – 3 minutes       We’re pleased to announce the release of PD Place™ version 3.8 is now available! Our team has been hard at work since the last release, making some incredible enhancements to PD Place. (Thanks team!) I also can’t forget to thank our insightful users who help drive the direction of the software with their feedback and suggestions; we hope you will like what you see! Here is an overview of some of the major enhancements: A new look: The PD Place logo had ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 1 – 2 minutes       One of the most frustrating issues I had with PD Place™ has now been fixed!  With our new Version 3.8 release, the preferences throughout the product have been re-organized to make them much easier to find. For example, in previous versions of PD Place, you had to manually hunt down all the preferences needed to setup PayPal. Now, all of these preferences are located in the Pay Portal preference category. Additionally, a preference search has been added that ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 2 minutes       There are many new features in the newly released version of ContinuED® that you may find helpful to boost your software’s effectiveness. The first is the newly added register extension pages. With the old ContinuED 2.2 registers, you were limited to a specific number of days where you could record attendance and have it display on the printed register. Generally, this limit was anywhere from 42 to 60 classes. With the introduction of the register extension pages, ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 2 minutes       As the season slowly starts to change, so does ContinuED®. Officially released on August 16th, 2010, ContinuED 2.3.0 offers many significant improvement to many areas. The first area of improvement you’ll notice right away is the new and improved user interface. The revamped interface makes it easier for you to find the class you desire with much less effort. This “stepped” interface allows you to progress one step at a time to filter out the undesired ... Read More