Estimated Time To Read This: 2 minutes       Recently, I was working on a solution where some users only had View access to specific records in one of the tables. I set up a privilege set to do what I wanted, and – once I had worked the kinks out – things were working pretty smoothly; the test account I created could only see data in the records they were supposed to. The only hiccup was that the rest of the records showed up with “<no access>” in the fields – which is kind of ugly, and not ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 2 – 3 minutes       From the title you might assume I was going to dispense some “winterly” advice like “clear snow from around your vents on your house” or “keep snow cleared from around ground-level windows (so when it melts, water doesn’t seep in).” No, these just happen to be FileMaker tips and it’s January; hence, January Tips. Tip 1: If you administer FileMaker Server, you know you’ve had to set up an account and password that allows ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 4 – 6 minutes       FileMaker Inc., with the release of FileMaker 8 and FileMaker 8 Advanced has significantly modified the ways scripts can be written and tested. It is worth it to rethink our approach to scripting from the ground up. Scripting philosophies and techniques might differ user by user, developer by developer, but there are a few common principles worth considering. FileMaker 8 Advanced introduced several new tools. Copy/paste tables, scripts and script steps, ... Read More