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Dear [firstname,fallback=FileMaker Developer], Welcome to our latest newsletter. Below we'll present some of the newest items surrounding our FileMaker calendar templates along with some tips to help you get the most out of them. We hope you find this useful. All the best, John Sindelar |
Sneak Peek: fmSearchResultsEasily add Google-like search to FileMakerThe BETA of fmSearchResults is out! Soon you'll be able to drop a single search field on to any layout in your solution and search across all-the-tables-in-your-solution at the same time. Matt Navarre from MSN Media has been perfecting this technique in some very cool (vert large) solutions and his unlocked template will let you add this to your own databases. Watch the 2min introduction or download the beta and check it out yourself. |
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Mod: SeedCode Hierarchy in Medical SchedulingShowing a patient's chart as a hierarchyJosé E. López Rosario sent us a cool modification he's made using our Hierarchy template in his medical practice. He sent us some screen shots of the mod and the script trigger he uses to refresh it. |
Tip: Adding Linked Files to the CalendarUsing SuperContainer from 360WorksA lot of our users need to link files to their contacts or projects and it is pretty easy to add "linked files" as a new type of activity in SeedCode Complete. The simplest thing to do is just add a new container field to the Appointments table and then place this field on the "Blank" tab of the Edit Appointment mini window layout. Then create a new "type" in the calendar settings called "files" and you can filter contact or project activity to show just the files. (You may have trouble getting to the Edit Appointment mini window layout in order to edit it-- if you do, this article should help.) Of course, if you only "link" to the files, then people on other parts of your network (who may have a different path to the linked files) may not b able to see them. For the best compatibility inset the file, don't just link to it (there is a checkbox toggling this behavior each time you insert into a container field). Of course, this can BLOAT your database in a hurry. The best answer to all this is a third party product called SuperContainer
which will store your assets on a server of your choice, but present
them in FileMaker as if they were IN your FileMaker database. This
is something I can heartily recommend. And the guys at 360Works who
make SuperContainer are great with their support. You can learn more
about this here: SuperContainer shows your linked files in a webviewer, and all you need to use SuperContainer is to write the web viewer's URL in such a way that it knows the unique identifier for each file: since the file is linked to an appointment, you can use the AppointmentID for this. Below you'll see one web viewer calc I've used. Note that the Path to Files is a new settings field in the calendar, though this isn't necessary, and we're using the appointment ID as the image folder. You can really do this however you want and I'd play around with it a bit before you deploy. Also note that we've given our web viewer an object name "WV" and are using that to test the web viewer's size so we can resize the image accordingly (minus a 15 px buffer). If you've never used object names before you'll want to look that up in FileMaker's built in help as it gets important with web viewers. The set your webviewer to slide as shown below and you're set. Finally, I sometimes make my styles dynamic by setting a global variable $$Styles to "center+title+info+upload" or "center+image_only" depending on what I want the user to see. I'd then use $$Styles in my web viewer's last line like this: "&style=" & $$Styles |
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Web Viewer calc:
Enjoy! |
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