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Q&A Spotlight with Kate
Kate Lee is part of team Codence now. Learn more about Codence’s newest Technical Lead.
Q&A Spotlight With Samantha
Now, 2020 was a tough year for everyone. However, we like to see the glass half-full and celebrate the opportunity to continue to grow our team with very talented folks like Samantha. Samantha joined us back in October to assume overall responsibility assisting our executives, and is already having a dramatic effect on the success […]
Q&A Spotlight with Raydel
Like a good Cuban, he likes to dance salsa and have a good time with friends and family, get to know more about our newest Web Developer.
Q&A Spotlight with Martha
At the end of summer, we had a new person joining Codence — Martha Zink! Martha is a very strong leader in our community, including her work with PauseOnError. Enjoy getting to know about her role at Codence and other fun things with our Q&A spotlight: – What is your role at Codence and what […]
Make Time for Your Passion Project
How can you make time for your passion project? Scott Love shares his time management thoughts on how to achieve a dream or maybe how to just stay sane.
Why Hire a FileMaker Consultant?
When crafting a FileMaker solution, business professionals may arrive at a crossroads. They need to hire an in house FileMaker team, turn to a freelancer, or engage a software consulting company like Codence. One of the hallmarks of a Workplace Innovation Platform is intuitive and scalable development. You don’t need a computer science degree to […]
New Millennium is now Codence
Codence, FileMaker software developers and business intelligence experts formerly known as New Millennium Communications, today announced the company’s new brand.
Q&A Spotlight with Kate
Kate Lee is part of team Codence now. Learn more about Codence’s newest Technical Lead.
Filter and Sort FileMaker with JavaScript
Starting with FileMaker 17, developers can use native JSON function for a variety of tasks. From simple navigation and script parameters to API integrations and web viewers, JSON objects prove to be a great addition to the FileMaker platform. However, FileMaker has only 6 native JSON functions and these are limited to the following basic […]
Central Navigation in Claris FileMaker
…Fit for Hamilton After finally watching Hamilton, I’ve decided that everything should be set to music and rhyme. Here’s how Hamilton might manage the Federalist papers: (🎶 Twenty twenty-one At a desk 🎶) I’ve got to track my data, my IP, and my essays. Sure, I write too quickly, That is what they all say. […]
Q&A Spotlight With Samantha
Now, 2020 was a tough year for everyone. However, we like to see the glass half-full and celebrate the opportunity to continue to grow our team with very talented folks like Samantha. Samantha joined us back in October to assume overall responsibility assisting our executives, and is already having a dramatic effect on the success […]
Q&A Spotlight with Raydel
Like a good Cuban, he likes to dance salsa and have a good time with friends and family, get to know more about our newest Web Developer.
Estimates, Quotes and Budgets… Oh My!
In this post, Scott Love shares some of the wisdom our team has collected along the way and a glossary of estimate terms to help.
Live Formatting Modus Operandi
We recently posted an article about a magical FileMaker development technique called “Live Formatting” where we use an input mask to show the user how the data entered will be formatted and to ensure that it follows that format consistently. The technique has obvious utility for phone number fields, but can be useful for other […]
FileMaker 19.1 Release
Claris released FileMaker 19.1 a few days ago and while an incremental update may not have been newsworthy in the past, this release definitely warrants a look. (Technically this is version 19.1.2, and 19.1.1 was an internal, not-released version.) Shorter Releases It’s important to appreciate that Claris has shifted from the large 12 or 18-month […]
Estimates, Quotes and Budgets… Oh My!
In this post, Scott Love shares some of the wisdom our team has collected along the way and a glossary of estimate terms to help.
IoT & Machine Learning
Truman discuss Claris Engage Emerging technologies panel – from IoT and Machine learning along with the impact of AI on the future of your business.
Claris Engage 2020: It’s About You
Day two of Claris Engage opened with Srini Gurrapu, VP of Product and Design, sharing the company’s strategy for its products and providing a glimpse into what lays ahead for its customers. It was – A LOT. People First The team continued its focus on its community. John Sindelar shared how to connect SeedCode’s DayBack […]
Pandemic Financial Stimulus
We thought it would be helpful to distill what we’ve learned about the The Paycheck Protection Program.
Looking for Early Warning Signs
We all lack perfect information about the future, but there are key indicators to watch for and examine in order to put pieces of the puzzle together.
Community Health Log – Covid-19
Community Health Log (originally created for a Fortune 100 client) serves multiple-location organizations by synthesizing data when someone enters a facility. It can either incorporate security badge data or comes with a simple mechanism to print QR scan codes that can easily be affixed to entrances. With this tool, you can report whom among your team spent time in a given facility and if their visits corresponded with persons who may have been exposed to Covid-19.
Claris Rapid-Response Technology
As organizations shift to remote work, these tools can help teams work together while not literally together.
Filter and Sort FileMaker with JavaScript
Starting with FileMaker 17, developers can use native JSON function for a variety of tasks. From simple navigation and script parameters to API integrations and web viewers, JSON objects prove to be a great addition to the FileMaker platform. However, FileMaker has only 6 native JSON functions and these are limited to the following basic […]
Central Navigation in Claris FileMaker
…Fit for Hamilton After finally watching Hamilton, I’ve decided that everything should be set to music and rhyme. Here’s how Hamilton might manage the Federalist papers: (🎶 Twenty twenty-one At a desk 🎶) I’ve got to track my data, my IP, and my essays. Sure, I write too quickly, That is what they all say. […]
Q&A Spotlight With Samantha
Now, 2020 was a tough year for everyone. However, we like to see the glass half-full and celebrate the opportunity to continue to grow our team with very talented folks like Samantha. Samantha joined us back in October to assume overall responsibility assisting our executives, and is already having a dramatic effect on the success […]
Q&A Spotlight with Raydel
Like a good Cuban, he likes to dance salsa and have a good time with friends and family, get to know more about our newest Web Developer.
Q&A Spotlight with Kate
Kate Lee is part of team Codence now. Learn more about Codence’s newest Technical Lead.
FileMaker 19.1 Release
Claris released FileMaker 19.1 a few days ago and while an incremental update may not have been newsworthy in the past, this release definitely warrants a look. (Technically this is version 19.1.2, and 19.1.1 was an internal, not-released version.) Shorter Releases It’s important to appreciate that Claris has shifted from the large 12 or 18-month […]
Live Formatting Technique
Claris FileMaker has long offered ways to parse the digits from a text string and intersperse formatting characters to provide a unified format for Phone, Social Security, and Federal ID numbers. The introduction of Custom Functions (CFs) made it possible to abstract the process by applying a “mask” template. A mask is a combination of […]
The Importance of Names
My team teases me – I give names to everything. We don’t have a “company annual planning meeting”, we have CoLab. (Codence + Lab, …collaborate… get it?) Rather than a “weekly planning meeting”, we have Switchyard. My wife and I are expecting Blueberry, not just “the baby”. I do this with clients as well. We’re […]
Filter and Sort FileMaker with JavaScript
Starting with FileMaker 17, developers can use native JSON function for a variety of tasks. From simple navigation and script parameters to API integrations and web viewers, JSON objects prove to be a great addition to the FileMaker platform. However, FileMaker has only 6 native JSON functions and these are limited to the following basic […]
Central Navigation in Claris FileMaker
…Fit for Hamilton After finally watching Hamilton, I’ve decided that everything should be set to music and rhyme. Here’s how Hamilton might manage the Federalist papers: (🎶 Twenty twenty-one At a desk 🎶) I’ve got to track my data, my IP, and my essays. Sure, I write too quickly, That is what they all say. […]
Live Formatting Modus Operandi
We recently posted an article about a magical FileMaker development technique called “Live Formatting” where we use an input mask to show the user how the data entered will be formatted and to ensure that it follows that format consistently. The technique has obvious utility for phone number fields, but can be useful for other […]
FileMaker Script Parameters using JSON
Today we are going to look at a way to use JSON for passing multiple parameters to a FileMaker script. Regardless of whether you are an experienced FileMaker developer or if you have only the barest inkling of what JSON is, not to worry, this article is designed for FileMaker developers of all skill levels.
Claris Connect Engine
Claris Connect is an “integration efficiency” tool and, in tune with that mandate, keeps getting better.
Resource Scheduling in FileMaker 19
Resource scheduling is a pain point for many businesses. While there are a lot of ready-to-use tools available on the market, choosing the right one is not as easy as it seems.
Keep Health Information Private
Get calculated field level access privileges by exploring some modifications to your Claris FileMaker data architecture.
Authorize.Net API Integration
The number of online payments has more than doubled in the last 10 years and skyrocketed after the COVID-19 social distancing rules. As a company specializing in accounting, Codence has quite a few projects related to payment processing and reporting.
