Paradise Partners soSIMPLE Software

soSIMPLE Calendar 1.2 for FileMaker Pro & Go

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:04:59 +0000

Paradise Partners, Inc. announces the immediate release of soSIMPLE Calendar 1.2

soSIMPLE Calendar is a drag & drop asynchronous calendar interface for FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go, traditional web, and mobile devices. It offers developers the ability to add a feature-rich, multi-platform completely customizable calendar to any FileMaker-based solution.

Version 1.2 fixes some bugs, enhances some features, and adds a few others:

Even faster drawing and updating of calendars using smarter caching
More international support
Filtering now supports “or”-type filters
Added the ability to update a single event at a time
“New calendar” wizard to further simplify creating calendars for your own solutions.
Preferences for managing caches and custom configurations
Clearer distinction between Server-side calendars and Client-side calendars

You can try soSIMPLE Calendar right from our web site, or download it for free at http://www.soSIMPLEsoftware.com.

We hope you find it a valuable and fun addition to your events calendar.

soSIMPLE at NJFMPUG

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:34:33 +0000

We had the opportunity to demonstrate soSIMPLE Calendar to the NJ FileMaker user group. The event went very well – there seemed to be a lot of excitement around the software, especially around the ability to quickly roll out new calendars on multiple platforms & devices.

Agnes at ZeroBlue Technology Solutions did a beautiful write-up of the event. Thanks Agi.

Ken

Announcing soSIMPLE Calendar

admin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:28:54 +0000

You haven’t seen a FileMaker calendar like this before.

Paradise Partners, Inc. announces the immediate release of soSIMPLE Calendar, the drag and drop calendar for FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go, web and mobile devices. We will present an informal demonstration at a DevCon “Unconference” on Thursday morning at 9:00 am, room Aqua 308.

By harnessing FileMaker’s web viewer technology, FileMaker Server capabilities, and some fancy ajax footwork, soSIMPLE Calendar lets you seamlessly add an elegant drag and drop calendar interface not only to your FileMaker solution, but to your web site, your iCal software, and yes, FileMaker Go.

soSIMPLE Calendar makes it easy by giving you a user-friendly calendar builder. You can start with our ready-made calendars and templates, or customize them further with our easy-to-use editor. soSIMPLE Calendar guides you every step of the way, from installation and setup, connection to your data, customization of look and behavior, to deployment.

Paradise Partners, Inc., a FileMaker Business Alliance member, has been developing custom FileMaker database solutions in the New York metropolitan area since 2002.

To see and try soSIMPLE Calendar for yourself, visit www.sosimplesoftware.com. If you’re at DevCon, please come check out our show special pricing and drop by our “Unconference.” We look forward to seeing you there.

Ken d’Oronzio
Lauren Naslund
Paradise Partners, Inc.

Paradise Headquarters

admin — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:14:36 +0000

Finally moved into our new digs.

Maps for Nearby Stores

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:31:32 +0000

Our advertising customer needed to show their sales reps multiple options of the stores where they could place their signs.

By using Google Maps API in a web viewer, we were able to show multiple nearby locations for the record that the FileMaker user was looking at.

Getting Started

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:17:44 +0000

Here’s a quick overview of the soSIMPLE calendar builder:

Deploy PHP on FileMaker Server 9 or above.
Install Calendar Builder and the Sample Calendar on FileMaker Server.
Place the soSIMPLE directory into the web folder.
Optionally place the plug-ins folders in the AutoUpdate folder of your server, and enable auto-update on your server.
Open the Calendar Builder remotely.

No Compromise E-Commerce/ No Compromise POS

admin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:47:05 +0000

FileMaker, Inc. got wind of one of our projects, and did a write-up of it. I think it made a good write-up – this is a conceptually pretty straight forward idea, that really shows off a couple of FileMaker’s unique features.

Our client, The Fest for Beatles Fans, has a very popular web store and wanted to upgrade it, redesign it, make it a bit splashier (spoiler alert: here’s the final result). At the same time, they had been managing their product inventory and sales using FileMaker forever. So we needed a solution that would marry these separate systems in a way that made it easy for our client to keep inventory up to date, and to manage all their orders the same way, whether they were from the web, phone, mail, or their many conventions.

We chose to go with Zen Cart for our Web Store for several reasons:

No-holds-barred full-featured shopping cart. We didn’t want to compromise on this point. We wanted the best cart we could get – the kind of stuff the big guys use – like “Customers who bought this, also bought these,” “Tell a Friend,” Sale Products for special customers, Best Sellers within categories, reviews and ratings, individual accounts for order tracking, etc.Â
Open Source with wide support and depth of add-ons. So when our client needed a special calculation created for shipping, we could turn to their vast library of plug-ins. Ultimately, we worked with a Zen Cart specialized developer, Scott Wilson, to create some of our Christmas specials.
PHP and very customizable. The system was designed to customized, to the point that you can do an upgrade to the system without messing with your customization. And PHP is a language that FileMaker supports, and one that we work with a lot.
mySQL-based (this was the clincher), so FileMaker could talk directly to it using their new ESS feature (External SQL Sources). This enables FileMaker to see any SQL database as if it was part of FileMaker, giving us all the tools and features that we use for the rest of his system.

So that’s how we ended up with Zen Cart. We’ve used this for several of our clients, and the results have been great.

Among other things, the solution we created for them allows them to edit product information directly within FileMaker. We created some synchronization scripts to update the online version with new prices or other information. The really cool part, is they get to see the updates as they make them, exactly as it appears on the web.

We are also posting shipping information back to the web site, and emailing the customer when the order ships. To facilitate keeping this information within FileMaker, we used NRG Ship UPS for our UPS shipments, and Endicia for our US Postal Service shipments. Both of these products were pretty quick installations. We added a feature not available in either of these products: quickly compare pricing between UPS & USPS using the FileMaker web viewer. Then load your order into the correct software depending which method you choose.

Feel free to stop by TheFest.com and let me know what you think.

If you any questions about this solution, feel free to contact us anytime.