Here are links to all the technologies and FileMaker extensions mentioned in SeedCode’s presentations at the recent iPad in Business roadshows in Portland and Seattle. Enjoy!
Linking FileMaker to iCal: Zulu for FileMaker
Automated Email Notifications: instructions – built into SeedCode Complete
Create FileMaker Go records from links in email: demo and instructions
Signature Capture for FileMaker Go: GoSign
Working offline in FileMaker Go (data Push): coming soon- subscribe to learn more.
This is the first of a series of posts on how to tune your work for FileMaker Go. We’re working on some very exciting tools and solutions for Go, and we’re hoping to share some of our insights along the way.
If you’re not careful…
Even when designing a layout specifically for FileMaker Go, it can be tough to get field entry looking good. If you’re not careful you can have a pretty messy display when entering a field: the field height jumps, content moves to the left, etc. (Screen shots are from FMGo for iPad.)
from Contacts in FileMaker's "On the Go" kit
Sweat the details…
If you follow a few simple rules, however, you can have your fields look and behave just great when you enter them. Text doesn’t move, field height doesn’t change. Good stuff. And stuff users expect:
from what's next from SeedCode and geist interactive
You’ll want to tweak this a bit for your own look and feel, but here are the field properties we’re using for FMGo on the iPad in our new product GoZync:
Enjoy!
We’re almost ready with Zulu sync for Google Contacts! Check out how this lets you sync your iPhone’s address book with your FileMaker contacts:
Coming soon at www.seedcode.com/zulu
Jason Young has put together a great calendar mod for folks who need to schedule large numbers of resources. This mod lets you partition your resources into more than one resource list, so you can just see the resources relevant to a particular item.
Video. Here is a short movie of this in action:
Instructions. Notes for adding this mod to your SeedCode deployment can be found here.
Enjoy!
Here is a quick demo of how we use iCal as a to-do list of FileMaker records, marking events “done” as we complete them. When we drag an event to the “done” calendar in iCal, it change’s the item’s status in FileMaker.
We’re publishing the FileMaker records to iCal using Zulu. And this works great in the iPhone’s calendar as well.
Enjoy!
Exhausted after a fantastic PauseOnError unconferenc; wow. Photos:
http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?group_id=1192180@N22&user_id=&set_id=&text=
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
The PauseOnError schedule as published by Zulu. Of course the day view is a little more readable.
Flying out to JFK now, I’m continually amazed at how many people are willing to drop everything, fly to NY in the cold of February, and stick their necks out by hosting sessions at Pause. (Of around 120 attendees we have something like 44 speakers.) It is more than a little humbling.
Who knows where this Pause thing is going (in terms of attendance, frequency, etc.) but I have a feeling we are all going to be getting on planes to be with each other, year after year, for a long time to come. At last I certainly hope so.
We’ve recently seen a couple of very cool deployments where folks are mounting large monitors to show production schedules or calendars. These use OnTimer script triggers to refresh the calendar every minute or so. Very Cool…
Paul Thomman's deployment of SeedCode Complete & Zulu
Max's 12 column mod of SeedCode Complete in "always refreshing mode"
While we’re really psyched that our calendar is portable enough to paste into your files, a quicker way to hook it up is just to “link” the calendar with a file you already have. In the video below we hook this up in <7 minutes (while trying to talk nice and slowly).
Watch this on YouTube or see a similar video where we do the same with our Pro Calendar. That one takes just 5 minutes, but I’m talking faster.
“A profession, professionalizing itself…”
Very excited to see where this goes.
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