Strangely this idea must be valuable, as it kept coming back in the designs ideas for BaseElements 5 ( more of that later ). I’d bet that every FileMaker developer would love a native UI component that allowed you to build a side navigation, but one that appeared in every type of layout view. Which is great, except it didn’t collapse or expand automatically, and it didn’t appear on any of the list or table layouts. The big design change was in the left side navigation for Form view. The fun part of building BaseElements 2 was using BaseElements to consolidate BaseElements, by writing a consolidation report … in BaseElements. FileMaker had introduced Autosizing in FileMaker 9, and we redid the interface, as well as consolidating it into a single UI file. We had some more tweaks later in the year, including our comparison reports and lots of additional features, but no new FileMaker releases until… BaseElements 2 – consolidationsīaseElements 2 came out just before DevCon 2008. But I wouldn’t have swapped it for anything. It was a mad four days, and I barely ate a meal I was so busy, occasionally someone would bring me a beer. I was doing credit cards manually on the website and it took ages, and I’d often have people looking over BaseElements themselves while I had a queue of people waiting to buy a copy. People would buy a copy, and then bring others back to show it to friends or colleagues. I was elated.įrom that moment on I was hectic most of the time. So I do the demo, and mention the discount, and before I can say anything else, he pulls out a credit card and I have a sale. What had I signed myself up for? I’m not a natural salesman, more of an introvert, so this whole exercise was pushing back against my nature.Ī few minutes go by, another person walks up. I have the feeling of dread for the second time, and thought it was going to be a really long four days. So I step out from behind the desk.Īnother visitor walks up, looks at the sign. ![]() That didn’t go well, so I think : “Ok, fine, I’ll have to get out and spruik it a bit”. Someone walked up, looked at my sign and walked off. ![]() When the conference opened, I was standing behind my desk, a small sign behind me and a monitor in front with BE running. I worried : will people buy my new untested product, when there’s a update to a well established one just around the corner? I had a feeling of dread, thinking he might be going to announce something this week. I had a moment of thinking that all my work would be undone if they came out with something good. He mentioned that they were working on a new release for fp7 files. I was thinking I’d need to have some sort of gimmick to attract crowds, like maybe play on the Aussie background and make people Vegemite toast.Īfter checking into my room, I got into the elevator with none other than Danny Mack – developer at NMCI who made MetaDataMagic. ![]() I’d never done an exhibitor or trade show booth before in my life. I’d been to DevCon once before, but not as an exhibitor. Side note about taking a product to DevCon for the first time. My favourite FileMaker fp5 developer tool, MetaDataMagic hadn’t yet been released for FileMaker 7 files.īaseElements got it’s first big show at DevCon that year, in Orlando Florida, after being updated earlier ( BE 1.5.0 on 10th July 2007 ) for the just released FileMaker Pro 9. The first release was in January of 2007 after a couple of months of private and public beta testing, and at the time, FileMaker was at version 8. I did really like the icons I found at the time, it was a set called “Harmony” from IconFactory, but not everyone agreed. Although the final release version was a FileMaker 7 file, it still had a bit of a hangover from it’s starting point, as there were multiple files for different parts of the UI. Yes the same FileMaker Pro 6 of the one table per file. A little history – BaseElements 1īaseElements 1 was actually built in FileMaker Pro 6. In doing that, we’ve looked back at what we’ve introduced so far, and what worked, what didn’t and where we can improve things. In working on a new UI for BaseElements 5 we’ve had to re-consider every element in the product. All through the FileMaker releases we’ve kept BaseElements up to date with each new release, and almost always fairly soon after release. ![]() The world of software doesn’t stand still and FileMaker Pro is no exception.
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