http://fmpug.com/blogs/portland Another Great FMPug.com Blog Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:17:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the last 5+ years, the FileMaker group in Portland has been meeting at MacForce. Sadly, they closed their doors on July 31, so now we're moving to a new space for meetings. 800 NE Oregon, Room 1E.  Portland OR 97232 Also, we're moving to a new meeting time, during the day. ... http://fmpug.com/blogs/portland/2011/08/12/new-space/ With a record crowd of over 40 people, Marc and Keith Larouchelle demonstrated all their best stuff. Core3 Marc started with the amazing Core3 CRM, which is a full featured solution that could run an entire company from companies and people, connections between them, quotes, opportunities, orders and invoices. Also there is ... http://fmpug.com/blogs/portland/2010/09/28/productive-computing/ This week FileMaker made a huge announcement: http://www.filemakertrial.com/go/ Given this great news, we’ll take half of the Tuesday meeting to discuss FileMaker Go for iPhone and iPad. We’ll pass around a few examples in case you haven’t gotten your hands on it yet, and we’ll talk about what we’ve learned so far ... http://fmpug.com/blogs/portland/2010/07/21/filemaker-go-hello-iphone-and-ipad/ This month, Angelo Luchi presented on the various ways you can host your FileMaker data. The meeting was sponsored by MSN Media, who provided the pizza and drinks. He covered many of the usual suspects, including: • Local hosted server • Remote hosted server (like his Drooling Dog hosting, Portland's own ODI Technology) • ... http://fmpug.com/blogs/portland/2010/02/23/angelo-luchihosting/ We're thrilled to have Don in Portland tonight, talking about some interesting philosophical aspects of FileMaker development, which translate into immediately useful tips in many cases. Don first showed this at Pause on Error in New York in July, and now is doing the west coast FMPug tour. This is mostly about ... http://fmpug.com/blogs/portland/2009/11/17/don-levan-small-things-loosely-joined/ Part 2: Northwind Database conversion Microsoft uses a database called 'Northwind' that is a standard demo that is perhaps the most famous in the Access world. It is built by MS to show off the product, and is more complex, though still a pretty simple template by FileMaker standards. Maybe it's ... http://fmpug.com/blogs/portland/2009/10/27/david-simpson-part-2/ Part 1: demo of migration of simple access database This month, we're lucky to have David Simpson, a FileMaker and SQL developer with 23 years experience. He's showing the FMPro Migrator solution which converts Microsoft Access databases into FileMaker (and much more) How does it do this? It creates a file from ... http://fmpug.com/blogs/portland/2009/10/27/david-simpson/ Another belated post and thanks to Ernest Koe from The Proof Group, who brought the fmSpark and NinjaCal Roadshow to Portland for our May meeting. fmSpark is Proof's mail-merge solution and NinjaCal is a super-easy-to-integrate native FileMaker calendar widget. We got to see not only how these products work, but also ... http://fmpug.com/blogs/portland/2009/06/24/ernest-koe-under-the-hood/ Nobody wrote up our March 2009 meeting, so a belated retroactive "thanks" to Jesse Barnum of 360Works who demonstrated many cool things you can't do in FileMaker - unless you have the right plug-in! Among the demos: Install plug-ins onto your users desktops without having to touch their computer or even ... http://fmpug.com/blogs/portland/2009/06/24/360works-plug-ins/ As the meeting rolls on, I'll write some of my thoughts and observations here. A sample version of this database is hosted on the beezwax server for a short time to play with connect to: fmnet:/fmnexus.com   from within FileMaker, and open either PiVOT 9 or 10 to match your version of FileMaker. ... http://fmpug.com/blogs/portland/2009/04/28/pivot-details/