Applications
Pro Help is a comprehensive online help builder for FileMaker Pro. It has a lot of features that satisfy both developer's and end user's need: look at screenshots, download the demo version to check them out and purchase the full version. Of course, wrtiting online help means more than just using a tool: here's the the list of some online help resources on the Web.
Articles and learning files
Common fractions is a simple calculation to convert 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 etc. fractions from their decimal form into the common and easy-to-read one.
Fast summaries article explains how to get summary data of a found set in a fast and flexible manner using GetSummary() function and provides detailed information about a few possible implementations: getting a summary report in a text form, including only summaries that meet given criteria, and producing cross-tab reports.
Pro Hierarchy introduces a universal method of storing and displaying hierarchical information in FileMaker databases.
Smart Date Field is a learning file that explains how one can build a date field that would be able to understand such date specifications as "Sunday", "this quarter", "1998" or "17".
Smart Ranges is a method of establishing relationships to and from ranges of numbers or dates in FileMaker Pro.
Tab Control for FileMaker Pro or Smart Tabs 2 explains a mehtod to build an effective tab control that can be semi- and even fully automated.
Miscellaneous tips
Here are some tips that were made without an accompanying article mainly because they are simple. May be I'll convert them into articles later.
Better modifiers ( 9k): a convenient way to work with modifier keys.
Alphanumeric keys ( 26k): formulas to build alphanumeric keys.
Remove duplicates ( 7k): subroutine that removes duplicate lines from a text field.
Generating permutations ( 26k): an interesting and rather quick method of generating all permutations of a string.
Pop-up that works like checkboxes ( 10k): an off-hand idea; it seems it doesn't work under Windows.
