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[ANN] Waves in Motion Announces Strategy Paper - Speed up your Portals The best kept secret at Waves in Motion - Revealed! Phoenix, AZ - June 16, 2002 This strategy is guaranteed to improve the speed and efficiency of your solution and heighten the end user experience. Your users will notice an increase in performance and enjoy using it, and in the end, save you time and money. As the number of records in your business solution grows, you may reach a point where it keeps getting slower and slower. Why? Simple! The more data that is shown through a portal, the slower it gets. Portals can be very slow, especially if you are showing unstored information that needs to calculated on every portal row. Although there are several solutions to solve this problem, we recommend that you use the Portal Filter plug-in. Using Portal Filter can provide the following benefits: - Filtering is faster than finding - Reduce the hindrance of unstored calculations - Filter large amounts of portal data for speed and ease of use - Reduce the number of portal records showing to increase performance - Building filters is much faster than building "find" scripts - Almost completely eliminate portal pop problems - Easily filter large text fields - Overall user experience is greatly improved "The Portal Filter Plug-in ...gives FileMaker Pro portals more power and flexibility than ever before." - FileMaker Advisor Magazine "Matching text through portal filtering is an incredibly powerful tool to add to any FileMaker application. oAzium Portal Filter does it automatically, without writing the complex text calculations. Moreover, it's instantaneous, even when the amount of text to be searched is so large that a calculation would be completely impractical." - Brian Dunning, Buylink.com "Wouldn't it be great to have a type-ahead feature?", said Vince Menanno, President of Waves in Motion. "In a sense, filtering gives you a feature like type-ahead. Just type a few letters, press the Enter or Tab key, and the portal is instantly filtered, showing you only the found set of records in the portal. And, selecting a record that remains in portal view is a wonderful thing." Explore the example file provided with this strategy paper and we are certain that this technique will greatly improve your portal performance, as well as provide you with numerous other benefits. Download this strategy paper in the strategies area (near the bottom of the page) at the following link: http://www.wmotion.com/support.html Waves in Motion is a full service development and consulting firm specializing in FileMaker Pro enabling technologies and offers database needs analysis, custom consulting and co-located web hosting. Popular developer tools and solutions include Analyzer, Visualizer, Dragon Web Surveys, Course Wizard and a suite of oAzium Plug-ins - Events, Portal Filter, Date and Time, FileTools and Smart Card. Waves in Motion is a Partner Member of the FileMaker Solutions Alliance and a member of the Apple Solutions Experts. Waves in Motion Imagine the things you can do! 4131 N. 24th Street, Suite A201 Phoenix, AZ 85016 Main: 602-956-7080 Fax: 602-956-6754 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wmotion.com Partner Member | FileMaker Solutions Alliance __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: RadGad(sm): The Place for Useful Gifts & Gadgets.(sm) http://www.radgad.com/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-5-RADGAD MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 805-494-9797 DevDepot(sm): Your Source for RAM, Technical & Developer Products http://www.devdepot.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 877-DEPOT-NOW To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. To subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". MacTech, Developer Depot, RadGad, and Xplain Corporation are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in this message. News may be propagated freely, but please attribute your source as MacTech Magazine, <http://www.mactech.com>. --
