Last week Linear Blue turned 10! This is a happy occassion for Linear Blue, we are delighted with our successful solutions created with clients over the last 10 years. The company was founded in April 2000, by Paul de Hallé to specialise in his passion for advanced cross platform database development.
A few versions ago FileMaker added the ability to pass parameters to and receive parameters from scripts.
I am continuing to work on an ESS integration project and one of the biggest issues is speed when dealing with large record sets from MySQL.
Automated server based scripts for Importing or Exporting are a great way of moving time consuming jobs away from users. Whether it is exporting a report from a complex find or generating records overnight to save the users time during the day, there are two very important things to remember.
I had a conference call with a client, one of their biggest customers and the customers’ developers the other day. Both the customer and my client are having new systems written (my client in FileMaker, my client’s customer in MySQL and, i guess, HTML) and they are both keen on integrating stock figures.
I have been doing quite a bit of work with smart pens recently so I thought I would drop in a quick primer on the technology.
When writing a PHP based site – developers often also have to integrate with a database (otherwise the site tends not to be very exciting!) and a popular technology for this is a flavour of SQL. Rather than go through the basics of database queries using SQL (which if enough people ask me for – I certainly will do in the future) I have decided to write specifically about the mechanics of the JOIN command. The SQL Join command allows us to pull and combine data from two or more tables, where the result can be modified by specifying different data relationships between the tables.
Script triggers are your best friend and worst enemy. They are great when they trigger as required but not always so good when you don’t want the scripts to run.
I was thinking how useful it would be for a user working in a FileMaker database to be able to filter a list in their current window based on content from another window, FileMaker 10 script triggers now makes this possible.
