About Monica Blum

Monica Blum is a FileMaker Certified Developer at Skeleton Key in St. Louis, MO.

Entries by Monica Blum

What is UTC? And Why Does it Matter for Applications?

When building FileMaker Applications, we often encounter solutions that require the use of time, time zones, daylight savings time, and possibly UTC. UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time, and it’s adjusted by a certain offset depending on the time zone. Many APIs and database processes use UTC to communicate time and it’s important that we […]

Siri Shortcut in Claris FileMaker 19

Every time I arrive home my lights come on automatically thanks to Siri Shortcuts. Siri Shortcuts have quickly become one of my favorite additions in the last few years and if you’re an iPhone user and you haven’t checked them out, you should! When I discovered that Claris FileMaker 19 brought the ability to tie […]

FileMaker 18: New Supported Barcodes

Since FileMaker Go 13 introduced support for scanning barcodes with the camera of an iOS device, it has been a widely used feature across many different business niches. Barcodes are an excellent way to improve efficiency and eliminate error in human data entry in a vast array of industries. The support for barcode scanning allows […]

Selecting Objects In A Group In FileMaker 17

Grouping objects together when designing layouts is a very helpful tool and one of my favorites to use. I am very excited for the new ability to select an individual object while it is still in a group in FileMaker 17. Grouping And Ungrouping Objects In Previous Versions If you are not familiar with grouping […]

FileMaker 17: Selecting Objects in a Group

Grouping objects together when designing layouts is a very helpful tool and one of my favorites to use. I am very excited for the new ability to select an individual object while it is still in a group in FileMaker 17.   Grouping and Ungrouping Objects in Previous Versions   If you are not familiar with […]