Level: Intermediate, Version: FM 11 or later

Popup Pickers

Back in 2009, David Graham released a demo called Spotlight Filter that caused a minor revolution in the FM development world: a) it neatly solved a problem that many developers routinely face, and b) it was an early and convincing implementation of FileMaker script triggers.

The problem it solved was, “How can I provide my users with a lightning-quick, keyboard-driven popup-window to pick from a set of values, for example, to add a customer or a product to an invoice?” Continue reading “Popup Pickers”