Chris Ursulak at Barantas has been diving into the CSS in DayBack Calendar and sent us these screenshots of the cool red theme he created. If you want to make your own mods like these, some of the changes he’s made are versions of CSS recipes you can find here. But don’t be afraid to dig in and go further like Chris did. And if you can’t find the...
Turns out that it’s pretty easy to add colored icons to your events in DayBack calendar–at least on a Mac: you can use these to supplement DayBack’s color-coding or just to draw attention to certain events. This was inspired by some screen shots Tommy Duval sent us from tactic-tgi.com. Tommy’s using the Mac character viewer to insert new characters into the event summary. To get the character viewer to show...
Been really enjoying the Material Design stuff coming out of Google. They seems to be focusing on the right issues, even if some of the results aren’t what I’d always do. Most of the time I find it’s just great to have a guide to follow–especially around typography and spacing–where otherwise I can just start trying things and pretty soon I’ve spent a couple hours tweaking fonts… “I...
Here’s a FileMaker 14 navigation sidebar that uses the new button bar object to dynamically stay in sync with the layouts in your file. It also uses a slide control for a cool animated show/hide effect, and you can option-click the “hide” arrow for a compacted icon-only version. This technique uses only native FileMaker functionality, no plugins, custom functions or web viewers. And you don’t even need a script...
SeedCode Complete 13 Our newest version of SeedCode Complete has been out for about 3 months and we’ve now had an opportunity to see how people are using and modifying it for themselves and their customers. Happily, one of our customers’ favorite design patterns is the one I’m personally the proudest of: we think of them as “Cards”. It’s essentially an updated take on the Selection Portal or Master Detail design...
Adding a FileMaker Portal next to DayBack’s WebViewer Recently Arie Covrigaru of PlanOmatic ( http://planomatic.com ) hired us to add some custom features to his DayBack calendar. His main request was to be able to filter the calendar by resource(s) by selecting from a searchable, scrolling list. And he wanted that in the main calendar window, beside his calendar, not in the “advanced filters” popup window where this...
Love this little demo we put together for FileMaker DevCon 2009. A customer recently asked about this and I thought folks might like to see it. The demo shows how to create a grid of buttons without having to use different script parameters on all the different buttons. It’s also a tidy example of scripts used in drag and drop. Enjoy! Download “Drag & Drop Example File: Airplane...
A couple of demos showing how you can reveal additional text, or even new buttons, when rolling over buttons in FileMaker 13. We used to hide text from some button states by making the text unusually large, but Jason Young showed us a much better method. More in the video below. Download the “Hover Tricks” example file towards the bottom of our downloads page. [ba-youtubeflex videoid=”nj2ff9UsheY”] [ba-button link=”/newsletter-signup/”...
If you haven’t played with flights on Virgin America’s new site you should definitely check it out. A great rethink of the flight booking workflow, it’s also a nice argument for the long-scrolling site. Big, beautiful date pickers are dear to my heart. Book a flight. Details on the redesign, Work & CO, and their use of AngularJS here.
A colleague was asking how to simulate a drawer effect in FileMaker where an animated slide panel appears to withdraw completely into the window edge. This is pretty easily done but there are a few tricks to keep in mind (below). Animated Slide Panels Download the demo file, based on the Invoices starter solution. Click “slide panel demo” in the header to show and hide the panel. Here...
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