If your web viewer code calls the FileMaker.PerformScript function when loading, it’s possible that it hasn’t been injected into the web viewer yet, and your code will fail with a breaking error. How can we harden our opening routine to ensure this breaking error doesn’t occur and provide the best experience for the user? Part 3 of 3 of our series on Web Viewer Tips for FileMaker 19.…
What are the benefits of building a hosted app for the web viewer in FileMaker? And how can we make this approach work in WebDirect where it looks like FileMaker only supports data URLs? In a previous article, we looked at writing JavaScript for FileMaker 19 that matches a typical JS pattern of making asynchronous calls to a data source and handling the results. One of the important…
Should we trust the script execution order in FileMaker? Or should we write web viewer code that doesn’t care? In FileMaker 19, developers can now use JavaScript in their web viewer apps to call FileMaker scripts directly. And when those FileMaker scripts complete, they can, in turn, call JavaScript in the web viewer to pass results back. While it’s tempting to assume these two things will happen right after…
Here it is. The best calendar we’ve ever built is also the easiest to integrate and customize. We’ve been eagerly anticipating a few of the changes in FileMaker 19 that let high-end add-ons like DayBack integrate seamlessly with FileMaker. And we’ve done a lot of work to make sure FileMaker developers can customize every aspect of the calendar. All the calendar features we’ve deployed to Salesforce and Google…
Here’s a great implementation of DayBack Online with a FileMaker WebDirect solution by Jason Trenary at the South Carolina School of Music. Jason built an online portal for students to reserve recording equipment using the DayBack Online calendar interface. Students are able to see exactly when the equipment they’ve selected is already booked, and when there are openings they can select to reserve the equipment for themselves. Here’s…
This week’s update to DayBack Online included the ability to manipulate the calendar with URLs. This means that you can build buttons on your WebDirect layouts that change how the calendar works. You can Show the gantt chart for a specific project Filter down to just the resources available to the logged in user Jump to a specific date or view in the calendar Navigate to a specific…
Check out what’s new for DayBack Online in the update released earlier this week: support for mobile, resource folders, and more… [ba-column size=”one-half” last=”0″] Mobile Support The new version of DayBack Online introduces support for mobile and looks great on iPhone. Here’s a quick preview along with a demo of how quickly you can make new events. Resource Folders You’ll also be able to arrange your resources into…
Pleasantly surprised at how some of the native behaviors we thought we’d have to script for WebDirect are working really well.
If you’ve been building layouts for WebDirect you’ve likely seen that WebDirect may draw your objects before conditional formatting or hiding are applied. This never happens in the desktop, where rendering is now double buffered on both Mac and Windows, but it happens frequently in WebDirect. The video below shows this in action and suggests one technique to make it less obvious. The movie is taken from optimizing…
Since layout redraw is one of the slowest things a WebDirect (WD) layout can do, you’ll want to do whatever you can to minimize those redraws (which can appear your users as flashing or as a spinning busy icons). So, “do as little as possible”. This often means wrapping your commands in If() statements to see if they’re necessary. We don’t need to do this in Pro because…
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