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Script Triggers – “Sticky Tabs”

louisville — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:30:22 +0000

Today we talked about script triggers and offered an introduction. This is a redo of last years “sticky tabs” as published but updated a little for FMP 11. This demo file will work with FileMaker Pro 10 or 11. Here is the demo file: demo

All the best,
Brian Ginn

DevCon 2009: Day 3 Recap

Tim Dietrich — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:55:00 +0000

This was the last day of DevCon 2009, and it was a short one. Here's a final recap...My first session today was Geoff Coffey's "Practical Script Triggers." Geoff did a great job of showing us how we can very easily use script triggers to make big improvements to our solutions. His demonstrations included highlighting of the active record in list view, a technique for safely allowing a user from

DevCon 2009: Day 1 Recap

Tim Dietrich — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:06:00 +0000

Wow, what a great first day of DevCon sessions. Here's a recap of some of the events and sessions that I attended:First off, I skipped the "Continental Breakfast," and from what I hear that was a very wise decision. Instead, I hit the StarBucks in the lobby before a line had formed. I had a nice caffeine buzz going before the first session even started.The first session that I attended was

FileMaker Pro 10: Putting Script Triggers to Work

Tim Dietrich — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:44:00 +0000

One of the most exciting new features of FileMaker Pro 10 is Script Triggers, which provides us with a way to handle events. For example, we can automatically run scripts when a user changes to a new layout, when a field's value has been changed, when a record has been committed, and so on.In this article, I'll show you how I am using Script Triggers to log changes to records. This is a fairly