Here are some situations where you will run up against limitations of what FileMaker can do natively. Another consequence is that my thinking re: certain implementation specifics has changed over time.Īt the risk of stating the obvious, there are many, many ways to skin the virtual list cat, and the purpose of today’s article is not to say “this is the best way”, or imply that other approaches are flawed, but simply to propose one particular approach you might take - especially if you are either: a) new to virtual list, or b) already using virtual list, but aren’t completely happy with your current implementation.Īt any rate, my aim today is to gather some useful insights from earlier articles into a single document (with an occasional new idea thrown in as well), and some of what follows has been recycled from those earlier articles. One consequence of having written so much on the subject over a period of many years, is that information has been spread across many articles.

Recently I had the pleasure of discussing virtual list with Paul Jansen and Jeremy Brown on The Context podcast. Note 2: The demo is self-populating to keep the data current, so the values you see in the screen shots will not exactly match those you encounter in the demo.

Note 1: The example in today’s article/demo is intentionally very basic.

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