The latest update to DayBack for FileMaker 19 improves charting options when plotting resources activities against your goals. On the Pivot-List view, you’ll now find an option to combine all the resource activities into a single curve when charting activity over time. This means it’s now easier to chart a team’s performance, instead of just individual resources’ performance. Here’s what this looks like in action: In this example,...
Your calendar’s latest power-up: now select multiple events and reschedule them all at once. Multiple-selection is a free in-app update to DayBack for FileMaker. Here’s how it works… Multiple-selection makes it easier to reschedule whole projects and to shift your plans from one day to another. Do More • Drag events to reschedule them or to change their resource or status. • A single undo is available, making...
By default, DayBack color-codes your events by their status: more precisely, by whatever you’ve mapped to the status field. Coloring by status makes sense since many of DayBack’s scheduling views already put events into their own columns or rows by resources. But if you’d like to add a second color for the event’s resource, you can do that by changing the event styling in DayBack to add a...
DayBack’s scheduling grids highlight gaps in your schedule across multiple weeks, so you know if you’re on track or overextended. These multi-week views are designed to be customized, and we’ve recently helped a customer create an exquisite depiction of their workload. A Customized Scheduling Grid SeedCode’s Ann Kiser customized this view in collaboration with our customer, Pär-Anders Björklund, from Linjepunkt Repro in Sweden. Linjepunkt offers high-end retouching and image...
Here’s a great trick for highlighting a found set in your FileMaker calendar. Gerhard Huber customized his copy of DayBack so that when he clicks on an event, the project for that event shows up in the calendar’s left-hand sidebar. At the same time, he adds a flag icon to every event for the same project so he can see these in the context of all his other projects:...
Maps and calendars work together to make field service more efficient. Here’s an example of using the routing options in ProMaps to optimize your schedule. SeedCode’s KC Embrey wrote FileMaker scripts to send a day’s appointments to ProMaps for routing, and then pull that route information back into DayBack Calendar to determine the start time for each appointment. Scheduling Routes with FileMaker and Google Maps Routing is built...
Here’s a great example of using filters to display multiple calendars, each from a different layer of your business. A custom sidebar uses FileMaker scripts and buttons to show and hide calendars using the resources from each line of business. Our customer, Parvin Paving, wanted to show their field service schedules alongside the schedule of their estimates and sales teams. They also have calendars for booking conference rooms...
Here’s a beautiful calendar mod by Catherine Kirkland of Digital Fusion. She added new FileMaker layout elements to the right edge and bottom of the calendar. Looks great! DayBack Calendar is a web viewer on the FileMaker layout, so by moving the web viewer around, you can create layout space around it. Folks often put their own navigation elements above or to the left of the calendar, but this...
Here’s a simple mod to show unscheduled (dateless) events in DayBack Calendar. This is great for events that haven’t yet been pinned down. They’ll get “UNSCHEDULED” appended to their name and show up on the current day until they’re dragged to an actual date/time. Here’s a movie of this in action: Instructions If you’d like to make this change in your copy of DayBack, here are the field...
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