Conditional formatting is a great tool to enhance your layouts and add additional functionality to your solutions, e.g. for calendaring. But sometimes conditional formatting can slow down the display of your layouts, because FileMaker has to calculate all the conditions you have defined. Today we are going to look at a technique that allows you to speed up your calculations by caching some results temporarily.
This is a simple example that demonstrates how to use conditional formatting with the myFMbutler DoSQL plug-in in order to display a running clock in FileMaker.
This example requires that the DoSQL plug-in be installed. You can download DoSQL here.
Ever wanted to create your own navigation system based on your layout names? With the introduction of conditional formatting, this has now become a piece of cake.
This example shows you how you can implement a simple navigation system in your solution.
Sometimes a script running within your FileMaker solution may take a while to complete. A user-friendly application should provide some indication to the user that the script is running. Progress bars are a commonly used interface element to convey how far along a script is.
This article will explain how you can easily implement a progress bar in your solution.
With the introduction of the conditional formatting feature in FileMaker 9, a whole bunch of new possibilities are available to the FileMaker developer. This example demonstrates the power of conditional formatting.
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