Introducing the New Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
A new version of Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud is coming! The new Nonprofit Cloud is built into the platform itself, removing the need for multiple managed packages. This allows for more consistent and streamlined data management making it easier for nonprofit organizations to see the relationships between their volunteers, donors and other participants.
The New Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud: How To Upgrade
You’ve decided to upgrade to the new Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, designed to increase the impact of your organization by giving you modules to improve the planning, tracking, and efficiency of your organization's services, but you're not sure where to start. Let's walk through some of the considerations when upgrading.
AI Search Functionality in Claris FileMaker
With the release of Claris FileMaker 2024, a number of new AI script steps have been introduced, marking a significant advancement in the ability to find data. We demo the new FileMaker features that utilize AI to perform finds on data. Includes a video and sample file.
How to Eliminate Technical Debt in Salesforce
There are many factors that can affect the quality of the development on your Salesforce org. From increasing complexity to deadlines to lack of technical knowledge, there are many paths that can lead developers to a common pitfall: shortcuts. While shortcuts may solve an issue in the short term, the technical debt they incur can be harmful to your Salesforce org in the long run. We explore technical debt in Salesforce and the many aspects to consider in order to minimize its future cost of production.
Outcome Management in Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
With a good grasp of your organization’s outcomes, you will have an easier time gauging the impact your organization has on the world. This is where Salesforce's Outcome Management comes in. Outcome Management is an impact measurement tool that allows you to define, measure, and evaluate your organization's outcome strategy in one place.
AI in Claris FileMaker: Perform SQL Query by Natural Language
The Perform SQL Query by Natural Language feature in Claris FileMaker 2025 allows users to perform SQL queries using natural language prompts instead of manually writing SQL. Includes video and demo file.
FileMaker Remote Connections with DynDNS
A simple and free way to allow remote connections to your FileMaker database is setting up an account with DynDNS. This will allow you to have a dynamic IP and have a domain name that stays the same to your FileMaker Server.
Networking FileMaker Pro Databases
Networking a FileMaker database is very easy to do, but if done improperly can lead to a damaged file, data loss, or even losing the entire application.
FileMaker UI Design for Beginners
For the beginning designer, knowing where to start when designing a FileMaker user interface (UI) can be daunting. To help give a framework for how to think about UI design, it helps to break UI design into two broad, but distinct and equal chunks.
Natively Resize Images in FileMaker
Learn how to resize images without a plugin in FileMaker. How to use auto-enter calculations instead of scripting the resizing to produce thumbnails in container fields.
FileMaker Increasing Renewal Rates
Renew your FileMaker licenses by June 28, 2014 to save money, as FileMaker will be increasing its renewal rates by about 15 percent. This is the first increase in renewal rates in several years.
FileMaker Encryption With BaseElements
We here at DB Services love the BaseElements plugin. In fact we love it so much we decided to sponsor the development of HTTP POST in the plugin back at the beginning of 2012. So, as history tends to do, we repeated ourselves by sponsoring the development of the plugin again, but this time for encryption functions.
Reading FileMaker Crash Reports
Learn how to read crash reports to better understand what is causing your FileMaker database to crash. Examples included for both Windows and Mac crash reports.
FileMaker Custom Button Icons
FileMaker 14 provides you additional modern design tools, you can now use vector graphics with the advent of button icons. FileMaker comes pre-loaded with 140 very useful glyphs; additionally you can expand your collection with any number of custom glyphs and images. These icons can then be added to any button or popover button.
FileMaker vs QuickBase
Today is the day, time to look for a technology that fits your needs, but where do you begin? You realize you need a more powerful tool then a spreadsheet and there must be a better way to manage your workflow. Your ready for a custom application. We will compare FileMaker by Apple with QuickBase by Intuit, to help manage your custom workflow.
FileMaker Portal In-Line Progress Bar
The Portal In-Line Progress Bar, one of FileMaker 15's new performance based features, brings with it the separation of a layout's non-portal and portal rendering tasks. This means users are no longer forced to wait for cumbersome portals to load before being able to interact with a window's content.
FileMaker App Extensions
FileMaker has made it easier than ever to share data with other apps. With the introduction of app extensions for FileMaker Go we now have the ability to download images, word documents, spreadsheets and even a FileMaker database itself. App Extensions are a way to extend your app, providing users an easy way to exchange files with other iOS apps.
FileMaker Licensing for Teams
FileMaker changes the licensing landscape again by adding FileMaker Licensing for Teams, or FLT for short. FLT brings simplicity to the FileMaker licensing platform by pricing per user instead of the concurrency model which they are phasing out.
Integrating FileMaker With RESTful APIs
REST APIs are a universal standard for interacting with other programs and services, so by learning REST you can greatly expand the capabilities of what FileMaker can do, and the services it can interact with. If you've ever wanted to integrate FileMaker with Google Maps, Google Calendar, Microsoft SharePoint, or many other great services, you'll want to learn what RESTful APIs are and how to use them. Includes video and sample download file.
FileMaker JSON Functions
Native JSON functions have made it to the FileMaker platform! We dive into how to use the functions to create, modify, and parse JSON for REST APIs and more. Learn about the 6 new functions available, JSONSetElement, JSONDeleteElement, JSONGetElement, JSONListKeys, JSONListValues, JSONFormatElements.