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Free Sample Downloads
- FM8 Value Lists
- An example file to show you how to use the new value list capabilities in FileMaker Pro 8.
- fm8_valuelists.zip
- FM8 Paths with variables
- An example file to show you how to use the new set variable script step to specify a path on the user's machine to export pdf or excel file to.
- path_w_variable.zip
- FM Advisor Article sample file: Teleporting
- An example file to show you how to use the "go to related records" script step to jump from one relational context to another within your FM7/8 solution.
- teleport.zip
- DevCon 2005 Session: Understanding Data Context
- Includes the latest powerpoint slides and example files to show you how to understand data context in FileMaker 7 and 8.
- context.zip
- DevCon 2005 Session: User-Centric Database Design
- Includes the latest powerpoint slides which explain simple Use Case Analysis in FileMaker Pro development.
- user_centric.zip
- Check Box Control
- Use a field with a checkbox value list to act in a tightly controlled fashion like a cross between a radio button and a checkbox list. Uses an auto-enter calculation trick to simulate a SQL trigger's use of before change and after change values.
- checkbox_control.zip
- Calendar
- A small popup calendar using FM7 style scripting and functions. Feel free to use this, change the look, and include it in your own solutions, to save time.
- calendar.zip
- Shell Scripts
- A very simple file showing how to perform shell scripts in OS X from FM7. Also shows how to set a field in FM from the result of a shell script. Thanks to Matt Petrowski for this idea.
- shell_example.zip
- Filtered Portals
- Using FM7's new relationship range operators, you can now give your users filtered portals without having a calculation field in the data table.
- filter.zip
- Data/Presentation Separation Demo
- FMP7 now allows a complete separation of data and presentation. This small contact manager shows how selected portals can be hilited without including a hilite calculation field in the data tables.
- separation.zip
- Text Formatting (New Improved Method with Custom Function!)
- Now you can change text formatting like color, style, font, and size with a calculation. This file shows an example of this using a handy custom function which references the standard 88 FMP colors.
- text_format.zip
- Create a Text File with a Custom Function
- Using a custom function (which you are free to steal!), this sample solution creates an applescript, shell script, or dos command on the fly to create a text file and write to its contents from FM fields.
- text-write.zip
- Window Tricks
- FMP7 allows full control over window sizing and placement. This file demonstrates some of what can be done with windows in FMP7.
- window_tricks.zip
- Horizontal Portals
- Here is something you couldn't do before! Portals can go across now as well as down, if you learn this simple trick.
- horiz_portal.zip
- Field Behavior Options
- Now you can specify the return or the enter key to navigate from field to field. You can also prevent fields from being entered in find or browse mode.
- field_bhvr.zip
- Multi-relational Hops
- FMP7 allows you to access records directly that are several tables away relationally. This file shows a simple example of how the new relationships work.
- gtrr_multi_hop.zip
Technical Information
- Foundations of the FileMaker Pro 7 Relational Model
- By NCD's Jim McNeely. A straightforward explanation of the way that the relational model works in FileMaker Pro 7. Read this short paper in 5 minutes and be up to speed on the new relational model.
- fm7_rel_1.pdf
- Key Concepts in FileMaker Pro 7
- By Michael Harris, Senior Partner, Cerne Systems Inc. A great and lucid introduction to FileMaker Pro 7's relational model.
- FM7_key_concepts.pdf
- Migration strategy from FMP 5,6 to 7
- fm7_converting.pdf
- FMP 7's new security model
- techbrief_security.pdf
- whitepaper_fm7_security.pdf