Third-party Press Release
24U Software launches new Tips & Tricks web page for FileMaker users and solution developers.
Focused on better user interfaces for FileMaker solutions, the new web page will be offering tips, tricks and examples (not only) for FileMaker Pro 8.
This year, 24U celebrates its 5th anniversary and the new web page
is our second special present to you for our birthday. Starting
with four examples for FileMaker 8's new features (presented at
DevCon 2005), 24U is going to publish more user interface tips and
tricks in the future.
Because even the best database solution with poor user interface
will always be less popular than the worst solution with a good
user interface...
Go to:
http://www.24uSoftware.com/tricks
The following three focused collections of tricks are immediately
available at the new Tips & Tricks page:
Tooltips
FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced include built-in support for
defining tooltips.
There is currently no excuse for not using tooltips in your
solutions.
See some approaches how to simplify implementation and
management of
tooltips in your databases.
Featured tricks include:
• Implementing and managing multilingual
tooltips
• Storing tooltips in variable arrays or
dynamically named variables
• Switching between multiple languages or
tooltip sets
• Accessing related data via the GetNthRecord
function
More info:
http://www.24usoftware.com/Tooltips
Download free example:
http://www.24usoftware.com/Tooltips
- download
Portals
Not all things you would like to do with portals have
natural support
in FileMaker Pro, or if they have it may not be obvious how
you are
supposed to implement them. Our tips & tricks may help
you to push the
limits of FileMaker portals.
Featured tricks include:
• Horizontal portal (records in columns instead
of rows)
• Matrix portal (spreadsheet-like view of
related records)
More info:
http://www.24usoftware.com/Portals
Download free example:
http://www.24usoftware.com/Portals
- download
Tab Control
FileMaker Pro 8 introduced a new layout object type called
Tab Control.
It is a great space saver, but seems to be under full
control of user,
not developer. Our examples give the control back to
developers.
Featured tricks include:
• Dynamically calculated tab names
• Go to Tab by script (with dynymically
calculated target tab number)
• Get ( ActiveTabNumber )
• Unlimited nesting of tab controls to save even
more space
More info:
http://www.24usoftware.com/TabControl
Download free example:
http://www.24usoftware.com/TabControl
- download
Other birthday presents coming soon. Keep watching the
web...
24U Software offers solutions for people, not for computers!
Since 2000 24U Software has been committed to production of easy
to use software that makes working and developing with FileMaker
and AppleScript faster, simpler and cheaper. ISO 9001:2000
certified for design, development, customization and implementation
of software.
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Customer contact:
Bedrich Chaloupka
General Manager, 24U Software
Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance
mailto:beda@24uSoftware.com
http://www.24uSoftware.com
Press Contact:
Robert Pikous
PR Manager,
24U Software
Associate Member, Filemaker Solutions Alliance
mailto:robert@24uSoftware.com
http://www.24uSoftware.com