FileMaker’s Insert from URL script step, and at least four more script steps, appear to trigger temporary drops in performance after their execution. This post will address how how big the total delay is and how long these ‘speed bumps’ last. … More ‘Speed bumps’, size and duration
This post introduces the Speed Test Viewer, a free FileMaker solution to explore speed measurement data. It also makes a demo file available which shows off the viewer’s features based on the data from my posts of the past two months … More Speed Test Viewer
How to design a mechanism to allow the user to gracefully abort script execution? ‘Allow User Abort’ needs to be off to prevent an ungraceful abort. Buttons do not work during script execution. Which other means are then left? The answer is only a keystroke away … More Gracefully aborting script execution
In a previous post, I explored the results of a baseline speed test. This post will extend the tests with a modified script, v2 to run tests with 500.000 and 5 million iterations. … More Speed testing: Baseline script v2
In a previous post, I discussed how the act of measuring FileMaker’s speed with FileMaker, influences the measurement. The question then is, how to approach such tests? In this post, I will discuss my approach and how it makes sense to me. … More My approach to FileMaker speed testing
In remote locations without internet, one may still want to work with multiple mobile devices to collect data in the field and be able to synchronize or upload and manage that data on a laptop. This post explains how this can be done with FileMaker Pro. … More A local data network without internet
Rubber Boots Data 