Editor’s Note: today we have a guest article with demo files by Italian developer Giuseppe Pupita, whose helpful and knowledgeable postings in various online forums are always worth reading. Here he presents a technique to move data between disconnected FileMaker systems.
It is becoming increasingly necessary to move easily and reliably data from one file to another, and I’ve been recently faced with a similar problem. Continue reading “The XML Wrap and Unwrap technique”
The other day I had the privilege and the pleasure to give a POE presentation entitled Runtime Code, a.k.a. Blurring the Distinction between Schema and Data, in the room behind this window at the Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
The overall goal of the presentation was to explore various ways one might move business or presentation logic out of its normal location in the schema layer, and into either a) the data layer, or b) some other, non-standard, schematic realm. An example of the former might be to store object names or calculation syntax as data in a table; an example of the latter might be to change the behavior of an object (e.g., a field or script) simply by renaming the object itself. Continue reading “Blurring the Distinction between Schema and Data, part 1”
Have you ever wanted to export a single field and maintain all the characters in that field? This article explores the possibility with XML Export and the use of a simple XSLT. But first we’ll explain the good, the bad and the ugly of some different standard ways to export TEXT out of FileMaker.
Using this sample text in one field (and one record) we will make different exports and review the results:
Continue reading “An In-Depth Look at “Export Field Contents””
