For a few hours I was happy to find a solution, that might have workd in FM Runtimes, too. Within a world where data visualization is becoming a common form of data communication, this one video provides the first step of many towards taking advantage of some very powerful tools!
It's a power-user's tool which takes full advantage of everything that HTML/CSS/SVG has to offer. In this video, I showcase how easy it is to integrate the very powerful JavaScript library D3. Granted, you'll need to shrug off any fear of learning HTML/CSS/JavaScript, but the benefits are well worth the journey. However, when you need to go beyond the constraints of FileMaker's charting tool, the place you'll end up is within the web viewer. It's a great tool for basic data display. Before that, you had to use a plugin and eventually you could use a remote API through a web viewer.įileMaker has made a lot of progress with regards to the usability of its charting tool too. FileMaker took ages before it had an integrated charting feature.
This is because we have access to technology which provides far more than FileMaker ever can. In my humble opinion, they shouldn't work too hard on this either. Sure, you can format portals, use repeating fields and use conditional formatting for all kinds of display magic, but you won't realize the same results as you could with a tool or language built specifically for data visualization. It's because they just haven't been able to focus on it as much. What FileMaker doesn't do "as" well is data visualization. FileMaker does data, and it does it well - and easily.
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