Managing Settings & Preferences
With most software, especially a growing software solution like a FileMaker database, you inevitably end up with settings and preferences. These settings may be used for the solution itself, certain features or even user specific settings. No matter what the settings or preferences, you often need an easy way to manage and access them.
In this video, I showcase a method for handling settings which may be required for a server side script or client side operations. No matter when or how the settings are used, providing an easy way to get at them is always and ideal solution. Using the example of sending an email via an SMTP server, we can take a look at a creative approach to accessing settings which are managed within $$GLOBAL.VARIABLES.
Comments
Any suggestions on passing the $$GLOBAL.VARIABLES
How would you go about passing these $$GLOBAL.VARIABLES to an email.fmp12
that then sends the email via a FM Server?
substitute in the calculation of the global variable name
Hi Matt,
Why do you first substitute the $-sign, if you then filter all characters so that any dollar sign is filtered anyway?
Regards,
Martin Spanjaard
Martin Spanjaard
I can't use dutch groupname
Hi Matt,
When I use "algemeen" a dutch translation to "general" group, I get an error 1211. using #assignglobal function
Why is that, can I use only keywords in english?
I've a dutch filemaker version.