Useful Custom FileMaker 8 Functions (Digital Short Cut)

by Steve Lane, Scott Love, Bob Bowers

Overview

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

This Short Cut presents a sampling of custom functions that we’ve found useful, or that serve as good examples of functions in our day-to-day practice. The functions are broken into groups according to their purpose, much as FileMaker’s calculation functions are. Please note that these functions are meant as examples—although the examples were not tested exhaustively, nor is this collection meant to be comprehensive. We hope you’ll find some of them helpful directly, or that reading and analyzing others might provide a springboard for your own ideas.

Table of Contents

Number Calculations

Date Calculations

Text and Data Conversions

Email Tools

List Handlers

Developer Tools

System Constants

Toolkit for Complex Data Structures

    Data API Within FileMaker

    Data Tree

    Using XML as a Data Structure

    Path-Based Selections

    The Functions

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780132713306
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	08/07/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	54
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Scott Lowe has written for FileMaker Advisor magazine, co-authored Que Publishing's Special Edition Using FileMaker Pro 7, is an authorized Professional Training Foundation Series instructor, and a frequent speaker at the FileMaker Developer's Conference.

 

Steve Lane has written for FileMaker Advisor magazine and co-authored Advanced FileMaker Pro 6 Web Development and Que's Special Edition Using FileMaker Pro 7. He was awarded the FileMaker Fellowship Award in 2003 for "pushing the boundaries of FileMaker Pro."

 

Bob Bowers is a columnist and contributing editor for FileMaker Advisor magazine and has co-authored three other books: Advanced FileMaker Pro 5.5 Techniques for Developers and Advanced FileMaker Pro 6 Web Development and SpecialEdition Using FileMaker Pro 7. In 2002 he was awarded the FileMaker Fellowship Award for "developing outstanding technical and educational resources for FileMaker."