Brad Cranston of Cranston IT sent us this gorgeous screen shot of his integration of ProMaps into SeedCode Complete. (Love the filters)

He got the (free) icons from http://mapicons.nicolasmollet.com and explains the legend like this:

When showing projects and events at the same time, it can be a little bit confusing because they do overlap to some extent, so you can filter either way.  Also, there are three tables involved here because the phone icon is based off the incoming calls table.  All icons are color-coded by resource.

Incoming calls – A simple ‘map’ button on the incoming calls layout lets you(almost) instantly see where the call is coming from and who will be near there and when.

Events – If the start and end date are the same, the icons are numbered in order by time.

Projects – A calendar means scheduled; a star means approved.  Projects are not held to the end date, so that you can see future projects that need to be scheduled along with the ones that already are.

Really nice work! Learn more about ProMaps here: ProMaps for FileMaker

Great FileMaker User Group meeting last night punctuated by Xandon Frogget’s self-guided-wheelchair demo. Amazing work / evil-genius parenting (see the collision-avoidance stroller demo).

http://daddiorobotics.com/

Toddler-Assisted Steering

We’ve simplified GoMaps to work on desktop versions of FileMaker Pro solutions and named it ProMaps. The relationship graph got dead simple so you can paste the map right on to your existing layouts. (And the map is scriptable, so once you click on a pin, you can run your own scripts from the property detail within the map.)

ProMaps is completely unlocked for you to modify and extend.

And if you need both GoMaps and ProMaps, you can save $100 with our Maps Bundle.

Download the demo and check it out.

Once you distribute offline files to your users, how do you keep making changes, fix bugs, and re-distribute the files without breaking things or ending up with duplicate files on someone’s iPad?

GoZync makes this easy, and this short video shows how. It also demonstrates that GoZync can let you recover from schema errors you might introduce when you’re defining fields. You’ll see how we capture errors (like “the field we’re trying to sync is no longer there”) and let you re-play a sync after you’ve corrected it… without having to ask the remote users to sync again.

This is one of my favorite parts of GoZync. Hope you enjoy it.

Learn more about GoZync at http://www.gozync.com

Heard very good things about this program for onboarding new developers. New cohort starting in June: http://thorsenconsulting.com/filemaker-virtual-training-program-jump-start-your-career-as-a-developer/

FileMaker’s answer to: https://www.codefellows.org/#bootcamps

Molly: Thorsen Consulting

Well, that’s what happens when you post things to the wrong blog! =)

Internally we try to publish our favorite comments form the last week’s support cases every Friday–“fan mail friday”–just to let everyone know what their teammates have been up to.

We *usually* post this privately: sorry for the interruption. “Happy Friday” everyone.

– John