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RosemaryTietge
RosemaryTietge in News2 hours ago
FileMaker 17 Events
Learn about the FileMaker 17 Platform at an in-person event near you. Here is a list of upcoming events in date order. You can filter this list by country (and state/province if applicable) on the FileMaker Events page. To add your FileMaker 17 event to our listing, use the event submission form.   Québec, Montreal 2018-05-29 -
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RosemaryTietge
RosemaryTietge in Community Feedback and Information2 days ago
Last week: FileMaker 17 launched (no surprise there)
In all the excitement last week about the FileMaker 17 launch, you may have missed a few other things FileMaker updated last week.   First, our team redesigned our website. We added new pages aimed at developers and IT professionals. Both of these pages answer the questions we hear most often from those audiences like "Is the FileMaker
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jormond
jormond Expert in Discussions2 days ago
Performance Tips and You
At DevCon in August, I will be presenting some fairly easy, straight-forward tips to help keep custom apps performing acceptably. I would like to include a portion of my session to addressing Performance challenges the community has run into. Depending on the feedback received here, I may increase the time I spend on this portion during my
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halatkins
halatkins in Discussions17 hours ago
Relatively new (and small) database - question about moving to FM 17, primary keys and related records
I've got a small database, just started using it a few weeks ago. As we were starting out, I learned a bit about how to relate records - but we have not been using primary keys/foreign keys to relate records. As we move to using FM 17, I'm looking for advice and guidance on:   1) Can I add primary keys (using something Get UUID) to the
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davidhead
davidhead in Discussions2 weeks ago
How do you name key fields? And why?
G'day I am preparing my Devcon 2018 session and have a question for the community:   What is your naming convention for primary and foreign key fields?   I have my own convention and will share it later after some responses here. I also have some (strong) opinions about some naming conventions out there   Anyway, interested in
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usermac
usermac in Discussions2 days ago
A naming convention: Relational String Theory
A new field naming convention that allowed me to create an online order system from scratch in 31 calendar days in late 2017. I call it Relational String Theory (RST). It removes all the old troubles I had experienced in developing such as the clients changing field names, typos, and more importantly—subjective field naming. It handles the
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