There is, however, a point where you start to solve so many problems that your solution starts to slow down and you find yourself wondering why. Need to make your portal filters faster? This video will likely have the answer.ĭeveloping software in FileMaker can be such a joy when you're able to solve so many problems so quickly. The trick is knowing how to make it happen with the tools we have available within FileMaker.

You can optimize that portal filter such that the fewest number of CPU cycles are required in order to show a user's desired results. You ask yourself 'Is there something I can do to make this faster?' and you find this video about Fast Filtering Portals. Your once wonderful complex filter, which was working just fine on the 1,000 records, now chokes to death on the 10,000 records in the real world. Until you hear feedback like 'It takes forever to simply see a list of people to pick from.'Īs you scratch your head wondering why things got slow, it's likely because you didn't think about what's happening on every record of that simple little portal. It's fast and efficient and you're guessing users will just love using it.

When you first develop your FileMaker solution you're typically dealing with sample and/or test data.

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