Category Archives: FileMaker Go

FileMaker Sync Case Study: IT Solutions

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The developers at IT Solutions just completed a great FileMaker Go project for the Center for Disabilities Studies at the University of Delaware.Untitled

The solution facilitates in-person evaluations of 100 public schools across the state and replaces a paper system that delayed feedback and analysis of this important information.

I can’t express how much FileMaker Go and the app developed by IT Solutions has positively impacted our project. We’re now able to complete evaluations in less time, and provide much more meaningful reports.

–   Debby Boyer, Services Director, Center for Disabilities Studies

IT Solutions is a Platinum Level member of the FileMaker Business Alliance and they chose GoZync to power the offline synchronization this app required. The solution uses GoZync to gather data entered in the field back into the main system where processing begins while volunteers are still out interviewing schools.

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ITS2Andrea Leadbeater at IT Solutions put together a great write up of the solution and the benefits it provides to the Center…

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GoZync Customer Solution: RigMan

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Beautiful screen shot sent to us by Don Blaylock of Noble Casings; from a solution inspecting work on oil rigs…

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…Don says:

I appreciate all your help. The syncing is working awesome! GoZync was central to the success of this and future products!!!

Glad to hear it Don; and thanks for the sexy screen shot: love the dimmed “1” and “2”.

FileMaker Sync: what we’ve learned making mobile apps

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Overview.

We’ve been syncing FileMaker Go solutions since June of 2011 and it now seems like a good time to reflect on what we’ve learned helping folks make mobile apps as well getting the apps they already have debugged, sped up, and syncing.

This article will talk about some of the things we think are most important–and maybe counter intuitive–when planning a distributed app.

Because that’s the big shift for most of us: we’ve been making networked apps, and now that we’re mobile we’re making distributed systems. This is often much more of a shift in perspective tham the constraints of the mobile interface itself.

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Tip: Debugging Using GoZync’s Logs

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Working on a GoZync integration with Jason this morning and remembered this troubleshooting trick Todd and I came up with. This lets you quickly find where a given operation happens in GoZync scripts. (Worth a quick watch.)

Speeding up Sync: turning off delete management

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We’ve added a new article to the GoZync docs describing how to turn off the automatic deletion of mobile records that no longer match the users’ pull criteria.

For users pulling very large found sets, this can radically speed up pulls down to their mobile device.

The article describes scenarios where this would help, and walks users though the (very simple) mods required. Again, thanks to Todd’s clean code, this can be as simple as changing a single line. (We should make a collection of our favorite one-line-mods.)