Estimated Time To Read This: 2 – 3 minutes       For quite some time now, it’s been commonplace within the FileMaker development community to lock-down FileMaker’s interface in an effort to take control over various native behaviours that FileMaker Pro exhibits.  With the dawn of newer releases of FileMaker Pro, and their new feature sets, I’m seeing less and less of a reason to do this anymore. Doing this interface lock-down involved hiding the status area (and locking it), which contained a ... Read More

Estimated Time To Read This: 3 – 5 minutes       Before FileMaker 10, pretty much the only way to run a script in FileMaker Pro is to click a button (or run it from another script, or from the Scripts menu). There was no way to, for example, run a script when a user makes a change to a field, or to run a script at a certain time, without the use of a plugin. FileMaker 10 introduced the concept of script triggers, which gives developers much more flexibility in using scripts. There are several ways triggers can ... Read More