Cleveland Consulting, Inc. - Latest Comments

Re: Check out CC NonProfit on a Public Server

HOnza Koudelka — Tue, 24 May 2011 02:19:01 -0000

Not only is this a great product, but also a great way to utilize public FileMaker hosting.
Maybe FileMaker could get inspired and run a FileMaker Server for hosting demos and examples on their domain... ;-)
I am only wondering why you haven't included this clickable link in your article:
fmp7://east.01.fmsdb.com/ccnon...

Re: CC Pivot Related Fields Demo Video

Court Bowman — Fri, 13 May 2011 07:26:31 -0000

Thanks for the comment. We should be releasing this in the next couple weeks if all goes well as a single plugin and an associated interface file. Check the integration video on this blog for more information on how integration will work.

Re: CC Pivot Related Fields Demo Video

Allen Imbarrato — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:26:20 -0000

Good job, Court. How will you be offering this as a product?

Re: Call for testers, CCPivot

Court Bowman — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:53:37 -0000

Bob,

Send me a message with your email address and I'll get you the info. The beta has been going on for a bit and is in it's last week, but I'd still love to have your feedback.

Court

Re: Call for testers, CCPivot

Bob Stuart — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:51:52 -0000

CC Pivot looks like a fantastic product. Reporting has never been my forté and I can't wait to try it out. When?

Bob Stuart
Think Data Pty Ltd
Noosa
Queensland
Australia.

Re: CC Pivot Related Fields Demo Video

Court Bowman — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:30:53 -0000

Thanks Tim, there is another video up on our blog a week or so back about how integration works, you can check that out. I'll be at DevCon, although a booth or formal presentation is still up in the air...

Re: CC Pivot Related Fields Demo Video

Court Bowman — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:30:02 -0000

Thanks Joel, appreciate the feedback.

Re: CC Pivot Related Fields Demo Video

Joel Bowers — Mon, 02 May 2011 23:45:13 -0000

Very Cool

Re: CC Pivot Related Fields Demo Video

Tim Anderson — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:39:25 -0000

Looks really smart, will be great to play with it and see how easy it is to integrate.
You going to be showing it at DevCon?

Re: FIleMaker User Group mashup

Andy Gaunt — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:48:38 -0000

Hey Court,

Great job on the mashup. I think it is fair to say this is a mashup of physical FileMaker gathering points as opposed to the community at large. Let me know if you want to do something with the community as a whole (would be great to see it worldwide)

Cheers

Andy Gaunt
Team Pug

Re: New Product Preview Part 2 – Pivot Tables in FileMaker Pro

Court Bowman — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:34:51 -0000

Matt,

Thanks for the feedback. The quandry on that issue is two fold. While not technically complicated, the interface for choosing a field from another table is a bit trickier. We currently do not require any complex integration, so to show related tables, we'd have to ask you to tell us what tables are related and how. Then there is the speed issue, it would be possible with related tables to ask for data so complex that you'd crash FileMaker, or at least bring it to such a crawl that you wouldn't return from the process for hours.

The second issues is more of an awareness issue, but i don't want too many folks stuck with a request so complex it's unfulfillable. but the first one is one we're struggling with.

Any thoughts or insight are more than welcome. We'll likely open an alpha testing in the next week or so, if you are game to take a peek and give us some feedback I'd be glad to include you.

Re: New Product Preview Part 2 – Pivot Tables in FileMaker Pro

Matt — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:24:02 -0000

Hi Court, Looks great! Can't wait to see and play with it.
One more suggestion of what I would need to do with it. I would need to display child data across in columns, like you did with offices. So, I would like to be able to pick fields from a related table too. Is this possible? I would want to list records from a parent table in rows with a few specific fields; i.e., Product ID, Product Name, Price. Then in additional "pivoted" columns list the STORE NAMES (from a child table field, Store Name) and filter by UNITS SOLD. This would then give me a list of products and total units sold in each store.
I'd be happy to send some examples if you'd like.
Great Job!

Re: CC Pivot preview screenshot

Court Bowman — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:00:36 -0000

Thanks, yes, we are drawing the actual table in a web viewer, we needed something that could scroll both ways inside a layout well, and there are few choices. ;)

Re: CC Pivot preview screenshot

HOnza Koudelka — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:14:40 -0000

Now this is really cool! Pivot table in #FileMaker. Finally.
Is it rendered in WebViewer?

Re: New Product Preview – Pivot Tables in FileMaker Pro

Court Bowman — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:30:24 -0000

Thanks Colleen, we took that feature suggestion to heart and added it to the list. ;)

Re: New Product Preview – Pivot Tables in FileMaker Pro

Court Bowman — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:29:34 -0000

Thanks for the comment. We do have one custom plugin made with the great tool from 360Works, ScriptMaster Advanced. It will be included with the product. It does not however require any changes made to your system. No new fields, layouts or scripts.

Re: New Product Preview – Pivot Tables in FileMaker Pro

Denis — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:56:23 -0000

This looks great especially if it is light on any requirements of adding fields to existing solutions. Does this also require a plugin to be installed?

Re: New Product Preview – Pivot Tables in FileMaker Pro

Colleen — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:27:14 -0000

Looks very nice Court! I second Matt's comments, especially an 'Export to Excel' feature :-)

Re: New Product Preview – Pivot Tables in FileMaker Pro

HOnza Koudelka — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:33:18 -0000

I agree with Matt. The title is promising but what you show is not a pivot table. If you plan to really implement a pivot table then this will be an amazing product. And it definitely is something that can be done in FileMaker, maybe with a bit of SQL or repeating fields use...

I am relly looking forward to see what the final product will look like. Good luck!

Re: New Product Preview – Pivot Tables in FileMaker Pro

Matt — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:49:07 -0000

That's fantastic and I'd love to get this into the hands of my users for their own report building without having to change schema! I assume I can keep everything "behind the scenes" locked down and let them report away...

Well then, I'll definitely be waiting to SEE everything!

Will there be an export to Excel option too? I'd like to see the printing as well.

Good luck finishing it up!

Re: New Product Preview – Pivot Tables in FileMaker Pro

Court Bowman — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:42:28 -0000

Matt,

Thanks, great comments. Two things. First, yes while you can do something like this in FileMaker, but what is hard is to do it without any schema or structure. In this case, we have no fields, layouts or relationships dedicated to any particular view. It's all dynamic.

Second, in regards to showing data across both or either axis. That is indeed better, but this was just a sneak preview, I didn't show everything. ;)

Re: New Product Preview – Pivot Tables in FileMaker Pro

Matt — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:06:52 -0000

Interesting. Nice work, but isn't this something we can create in FileMaker directly? I think it's great for a custom report builder and I see definite uses for the user having the ability to create their own reports using this.

However, a true Pivot table would allow me to take something like the field Category and "explode" it's data across the table instead of down. So, now it would show Equipment, Other Services, Personnel Compensation, etc. going across as headers. Then the Amount would display directly beneath, summarized by month, day, year or whatever. You would then need one other component in your selector, the break field or summarizer; i.e., by month, day, department or whatever.

Now this would be a huge asset to the FileMaker community. I have a need for it right now fro one of my clients. We've always been abel to display data going down, but going across is a huge headache, as you know (separate fields, etc.).

If you'd like to discuss further, let me know and I'd love to see this truly developed as a Pivot table creator!

Re: The FileMaker Go Heptathlon iPad vs. iPad2: Which is faster?

Court Bowman — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:15:51 -0000

HOnza,

It doesn't wait in our test, it fires the next script step as soon as FileMaker will do so natively. I think the layout draw speed is really one of the least efficient features. The interesting (and very helpful) feature is that the layout doesn't redraw on rotate like it does on record or layout change.

Subjectively, the redraw doesn't feel much faster, although the tests do show a very measurable bump...

Re: The FileMaker Go Heptathlon iPad vs. iPad2: Which is faster?

HOnza Koudelka — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:15:18 -0000

Court, does the Layout Change test reflect the redraw speed change? I.e. does every layout change in the test wait for the layout to completely redraw? What is your subjective feeling of the redraw speed when rotating the iPad between landscape and portrait orientation with the preinstalled Inventory database open?