Building A Dynamic And Robust FileMaker System

Have you ever inherited a system built by someone else, changed a field’s name and everything stopped working?

 

The issue, hardcoded names used in indirection, makes the system fragile. FileMaker provides developers many methods to add flexibility using indirection.

However when these instances of indirection are not treated properly they will raise all sorts of problems.

In this article we will discuss good practices regarding indirection that will help you build a dynamic and robust FileMaker system.

 

 

In this video we will discuss good practice regarding indirection that will help you build a dynamic yet robust FileMaker system by looking at a particular common scenario: using ExecuteSQL to grab data from a FileMaker system.