1. DC User’s Group Meeting, May 12, 2010

    May 14, 2010 by Sameer

    (Demo file is available for download in detailed view of this blog)
    At our last DC User’s group meeting we covered the topic of using some advanced scripting methods in a database to increase efficiency and overall speed in our system. The areas we covered were:
    1. Using script triggers to free up real estate with buttons or tasks
    2. Inserting images to containers so that users can reference images without having to do the tedious work finding the shared folder location, and renaming images.
    3. Some basic centralizing of scripts for common tasks, such as creating new related records.
    4. Search methods with script [...]

  2. DC FileMaker User’s Group

    February 3, 2010 by Sameer

    If you are a user or developer of File Maker Pro and are located in the Washington, DC Metro area, please come to the DC File Maker User Group meeting today, February 3.  It will be held at the FileMaker office at 700 12th Street NW downtown, from Noon until 2:00 PM.  The meeting will feature special guests from eConnectix, who will be demonstrating their XFM FileMaker Server. In a real-world implementation at Tekserve in NYC, which has 160 simultaneous clients, 87 files, 15 million records, and 10 GB of data, the eConnectix box was able to reduce back-up times [...]