Comments for Seattle FMPug Blog

Comment on Aug 22 - DevCon Wrap Up by Monte

Monte — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:47:27 +0000

I can’t find anything re Devcon 2011. Any announcements, neat items, etc. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make the User Group mtg. here in SFO on 12 hr notice so anything by way of news would be most welcome. TIA, Monte…

Comment on June 20 - FileMaker Go Offline: GoZync by Bob

Bob — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:14:09 +0000

This was a really great FMPug presentation. You guys have done some ingenious work. Thanks!

Comment on Mar 28 - N Power by jsindelar

jsindelar — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:01:02 +0000

I’ll ask Bruce about it; thanks HOnza!

Comment on Mar 28 - N Power by HOnza

HOnza — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:02:05 +0000

Oh, I wish I was a bit closer to Seattle…
Any chance for this session to be recorded?

Comment on Schedule 2010 by Bruce Robertson

Bruce Robertson — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:16:05 +0000

November 15 meeting going to happen? Are we waiting for fascinating announcements?

Comment on Schedule 2010 by Dwayne Wright

Dwayne Wright — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:41:27 +0000

Any news about a meeting this month?

Cheers! Dwayne

Comment on May 24 - Open Mic by jsindelar

jsindelar — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:39:31 +0000

Not too dull. “There are nuances”… Indeed there are.

Comment on May 24 - Open Mic by Bob M

Bob M — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:31:56 +0000

I could put together a micro thing (5 min?) about some best uses of value lists. I realize this is a fairly basic thing, and there may be best practices, but like a lot of things, there are nuances, and more than one correct way. I’m thinking of presenting some of the ways they are used, present some real-world use issues, and really make it an open discussion, I’d just present the points to discuss.

I’m thinking of things like:

Using a pre-made value list, vs. using a dynamic value list (and if there is some some of approval for values entered, who approves/how)?

How to deal with company names changing (Acme Computer, then Acme Inc.; keep the historical name? (in inventories and contact dbs, those sorts of thing).

Lose the “Inc.” in names, to keep them simple.

Consolidating duplicate (in meaning), but differently typed/entered (misspell, ACME vs. ACM Inc., OWC vs. Other W ‘ orld Computing vs. Mac Sales, etc.

Too dull? My feelings won’t be hurt.

Comment on May 24 - Open Mic by Bruce Robertson

Bruce Robertson — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:48:23 +0000

I’ll demonstrate building crosstabs using the code function to generate row/column identifiers.

Comment on May 24 - Open Mic by jsindelar

jsindelar — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:41:56 +0000

I’ll present a *short* case study from a current project on building a contact selector with script triggers and filtered portals, looking at portability and performance across 350,000 contacts. - John, SeedCode