I love the concept behind the new portal filters feature introduced in FileMaker v11. And, I’ve implemented them many times in my apps. However, I always find that over time I revert back to a non-portal filter method due to reasons cited here. Continued…
Posted in Issues, v11.
By Bill Doerrfeld
– May 21, 2010
The FileMaker documentation indicates that a record is committed when you click outside of field after it’s edited (of course assuming the layout is set for “Save record changes automatically”). However, this is not the case if you click on a tab control tab after editing a field. In this instance, you are clicking outside of a field but the record changes are not saved/committed. To remedy this situation you can set up an OnObjectModify triggered script set to the tab control which simply issues a commit record step.
Posted in Tips, Workarounds.
By Bill Doerrfeld
– May 19, 2010
I once needed to set values for specified repeating field repetitions upon record creation and attempted to accomplish this via an auto-enter calculation. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work. Oddly, there’s no mention in the FileMaker documentation indicating that functions which operate on repeating fields within calculations do not operate in auto-enter calculations. The remedy in my case was to use an initilaization script which gets called when a new record is created. A bit more cumbersome than an auto-enter calc, but, it gets the job done. I suggest clarification in the docs on this point in the sections where functions which operate on repeating fields within calcs are mentioned.
Posted in Feature Requests, Issues.
By Bill Doerrfeld
– May 15, 2010
A nice new feature in FileMaker v11 is the ability to move script steps via drag-and-drop simply via row selection without explicitly grabbing the up/down arrows at the left of each row. However, I find at times while working rapidly and as an affect of mouse action and responsiveness (e.g. it’s not too difficiult to “accidentally” click when you’re just trying to reposition/move the mouse) I sometimes drag-and-drop a selected row accidentally. Continued…
Posted in Feature Requests, v11.
By Bill Doerrfeld
– May 5, 2010
Specify Layout Script Step Options
The new pop-up menu access to specifying a layout script step in v11 is annoying, new and unprecedented for this part of the UI. Although with full keyboard navig. enabled on Mac you can tab to the pop-up, select space, then arrow up/down to select the option, that’s a lot of steps. Continued…
Posted in Feature Requests, v11.
By Bill Doerrfeld
– April 28, 2010
It’s inconsistent and lacking to provide show/hide script capability for the Text Ruler and other commands but not similarly for the Formatting Bar. As such, providing an easy means for users to edit text (without going to drop-down menus, contextual menus or custom-made buttons) is lacking.
Accordingly, I’d like to see script support for the display and hiding of the Formatting Bar. Continued…
Posted in Feature Requests.
By Bill Doerrfeld
– April 27, 2010
This morning I discovered I could not close out of any windows in FileMaker Pro Advanced v11 nor could I quit the application. No “rogue” scripts where running. The visual indication that everything was screwed up were the display artifacts replicating portions of the window when resized. The following video demonstrates the problem. The only way out was to force quit the application. Continued…
Posted in Issues, v11.
Tagged with UI drag.
By Bill Doerrfeld
– April 25, 2010
Chances are you create a number of transparent buttons in your layouts. Chances are at one point while editing your layout, you clicked on one of those buttons and then clicked out of it leaving it transparent and with no text defined. Do that, and the button disappears from your layout. To be clear, transparent buttons with no text and no border defined get automatically removed from your layout when you click into and then out of them in layout mode. Triggering Command-A to select all objects on the layout doesn’t “find it”. It truly is removed. Continued…
Posted in Issues, Workarounds.
Tagged with UI drag.
By Bill Doerrfeld
– April 21, 2010
After an indeterminate amount of time, in v11 with latest Mac OS (10.6.3) the ability to perform type-ahead in pop-ups is lost. This applies both to pop-ups in the FMP interface (e.g. pop-up of folder name with which to filter Manage Scripts) as well as those added to one’s layouts. The only remedy is to quit and re-launch FileMaker. Continued…
Posted in Issues, v11.
Tagged with UI drag.
By Bill Doerrfeld
– April 18, 2010
There’s a change in behaviour between FileMaker v10 and v11 as it pertains to copy/pasting referenced images within layouts. In v10, you could copy/paste with no issue. In v11 you cannot copy/paste referenced images in layout mode, although you can dupe the image via option-drag (on Mac). Tests here were performed on Mac OS 10.6.3. Continued…
Posted in Issues, v11.
Tagged with changed functionality in v11.
By Bill Doerrfeld
– April 17, 2010
