• fmWorkMate App
  • On Windows
  • On Mac

This page is a 🚧 WORK IN PROGRESS 🚧

fmWorkMate App

Setup an App with fmLaunchPad

Here is how you can use [fmLaunchPad][fmLaunchPad home] to create a separate [fmWorkMate] app.

On Windows

…you can open fmWorkMate in a second FileMaker only with a different version of FileMaker on your system

On Mac

…there is a much more elegant solution using fmLaunchPad.

Once you have installed and setup fmWorkMate…

1. Create a seperate FM-app for fmWorkMate
   • Duplicate your FileMaker Pro app (in your Applications folder), and rename it to ‘fmWorkMate.app’
   • Place it in the fmWorkMate Folder alongside the fmWorkMate files
   • For added comfort, you can also replace the app’s icon using the icon in the Finder (See How to change Mac app icons)
   • You could stop here, and just open the fmWorkMate app and save it as a FileMaker favourite…
   • …but we can do better than that…

1. Use fmLaunchpad
   • fmLaunchPad is a cool little starter file 🚀 rocket you can ‘programme’ to open the file you really want to open.

   • You’ll be setup in just 3 or 4 steps:

     • [Download fmLaunchPad from GitHub][fmLaunchPad repo] and place it next to fmWorkMate
       • or, alternatively, place the fmLaunchPad folder next to the fmWorkMate folder in your Applications folder
     • Setup the FileMaker starter file -> fmLaunchPad
       • Open your fmWorkMate.app
       • In Preferences set the starter file to start fmLaunchPad
       • Close it again
       • Note: the starter file is valid for all instances of FileMaker (fm18+)!

• Open your fmWorkMate App again

  • We have lift off! 🚀
  • With a bit of luck fmLaunchPad should open and automatically launch the fmWorkMate file :D
  • If not, fmLaunchPad might need tweaking (and in these very early days of release 1.0 it is quite likely):

• Tweak/Setup fmLaunchPad

  • Since the FileMaker startup file setting is a global setting which applies to all FileMaker version >= 18, you will also have to set up the starting conditions for your OTHER FileMaker files

  • Start fmLaunchPad again
  • Press the Abort button to stop the mission
  • Switch view (button top right) to see all the rocket’s modules
  • Remove, reorder or setup the rocket’s modules as necessary
  • Each module represents a different starter-mission
    • Left is the mission’s start condition
    • Middle is the destination file you want to reach
    • Right are mission settings (try out capsule)
  • See the documentation in fmLaunchPad for details how to do that!

You’re good to go - have fun! :)