Jan 26: Something New
It’s Here! FileMaker 10 is all anyone is talking about, and for good reason.

Please come to the January Seattle FMPug meeting for an insiders look at FileMaker 10. Alexei Folger, Senior Systems Engineer at FileMaker, will be on hand to provide a thorough demo and discussion of the latest version of FileMaker Pro.
In addition, Jason Young from SolutionMakers will be presenting a series of cool tricks with conditional formating, including progress bars and gantt charts. Despite the trend towards a web viewer based interface, there is still a place for native FileMaker tricks, and for the time invested, these techniques are pretty hard to beat.
FileMaker will be sponsoring Pizza and beverages so bring your appetite, for knowledge as well as pizza, and come see what’s now possible with FileMaker Pro. Don’t forget our new location at Group Health Cooperative. 320 Westlake Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109.
 Alexei Folger Senior Systems Engineer FileMaker, Inc. |
 Jason Young SoultionMakers, Inc. |
Questions?
Have a question for Alexei or Jason, something you’d like to see covered? Leave a comment below and we’ll ask it during the meeting…
3 Comments
John Weinshel on January 25th, 2009
For Alexei:
Just like in 9, the WPE on FMSA gave out (it’s red on the console) after a re-boot on Windows Server 2003, 1 machine setup, and I cannot get it back. I’ve tried re-installing Java. If I re-run ‘edit server deployment’, it appears to go all the way to the end before returning:
Deployment/Configuration error- 150 Starting the WPE (wpe1) component
failed: error code 2500
Where is the WPE? It doesn’t seem to be a service or an app. And what can I do, other than a full re-install?
jsindelar on January 27th, 2009
Andy, I asked your question at the meeting and Alexei had a couple of characteristically blunt responses:
a) No.
b) Are you so lazy that you can’t build a template script to use as the basis for new scripts?
c) The default steps were added several versions ago so new users wouldn’t stop in their tracks when confronted by a blank script as they create their first script, and then default steps were *removed* in 7, etc. because developers complained about it.
d) If you want to ask a question, get on a plane and do it in person.
Said it in love, as you know.
Andy Gaunt on January 21st, 2009
For Alexei: With version 10 comes a change to ScriptMaker in its ability to provide a set of defaults when creating a new script. Are there any plans to make the functions provided in this script editable by the end user/developer?