Studio Manager 10 Demo Released

December 23, 2009 New Demo

The Studio Manager 10 Demo is up and available on the Demo tab above at the far right. If you have any problems, questions at all, please let me know. You will find good help in the ReadMe document that is included in the demo folder that you download and unzip. Things like what’s the [...]

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Studio Manager 10 Release Today

December 22, 2009 New Version

Studio Manager 10 is available for purchase today. See our in-progress Studio Manager 10 tab above for more details plus about 10 blog posts below for details about some of the new features. We are working furiously to have the Studio Manager 10 demo ready for download some time today. Just click the demo tab [...]

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SM10 Goes Widescreen

December 19, 2009 New Version

FileMaker 10 has this fabulous new user-modifiable tool bar the way other modern programs do. The only issue is that it takes up a whole bunch of height that used to be available for the database screen on smaller screens like the 13 inch Macbook, Macbook Pro and Macbook Air. We love the new tool [...]

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SM10 Control What Gets Billed When

December 19, 2009 New Version

You’ll need to click to see the above shrunken screen shot clearly. It opens in a separate window or tab so that you can switch back and forther between the screen shot and this description. If you control- or right-click, you can choose new tab or window. When it comes time to bill a client, [...]

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SM10: Assign People to Jobs

December 19, 2009 New Version

In Studio Manager 10, your employees and freelancers can be assigned to jobs so that they can track the jobs they have on their plate as well as the tasks they’ve been personally assigned. We have a nice little assignment screen shown below (click to enlarge) that makes assigning people a snap. Now you can [...]

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SM10: Find Contacts as you Type

December 15, 2009 New Version

With FileMaker 10′s script triggers, we can make Studio Manager 10 more responsive. On the Contacts table view, we give you a way to filter your Contacts by company or name. In the above example, I typed “jo” into the Filter by Full Name box and instantly my list shrank to 4 people. Saves a [...]

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SM10 Contact Address Summary

December 15, 2009 New Version

Just a little thing, but we got the idea from Address Book. Why show all the address fields all the time in Contacts? In Studio Manager 10, click the summary pane and you’ll get to the edit tab in one click. This will keep idle hands and minds from inadvertently editing data and gives a [...]

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SM10 Task Assignments go from 1 to 4 People

December 15, 2009 New Version

Now you get 4 slots for assigning employees and freelancers to tasks instead of just one. This becomes an advantage when you want someone who plays a lesser role, perhaps just oversight, to see the task in their personal task list. We still like the idea of  designating a single person responsible for a task. [...]

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SM10 Week View

December 14, 2009 New Version

When you click on the thin bar at the left of a week in the monthly calendar view, you are shown a week view. Even though we’ve cropped this shot, you’ll get the full screen height for a total of 12 possible tasks due on any given day. We made Sunday and Saturday skinnier to [...]

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Emailing Contacts Gets Database Power in SM10

December 14, 2009 New Version

Up till now, when you clicked the link in a contact record to send an email, you got a new empty email in your default email program. That is efficient but left any mission critical information in your email system, not in your database. Not good enough for Studio Manager 10. So, now when you [...]

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