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    1. Community Videos, Tips, & Techniques, Articles.

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      Discussions on submitted files from members.

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  2. FileMaker Platform

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    2. FileMaker Schema & Logical Functions

      Buidling a solution requires a plan or Schema learn how to implement your plans.

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    3. FileMaker Go for iPad and iPhone

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    4. FileMaker and the Internet

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    5. FileMaker Pro 19

      Discussions the newly released version of FileMaker

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  3. FileMaker Server Administration

    1. FileMaker Server 19

      Deploy, Configure, Manage a FileMaker Server

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    2. FileMaker Server 19 (Linux)

      Deploy, Configure, Manage a FileMaker Server on premise for Linux

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    3. FileMaker Cloud

      Discussions about the new cloud offerings with FileMaker and Amazon

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    4. FileMaker Custom SSL Certificates

      Discussions and instructions for securing your communications with Custom SSL Certificates from third party Certificate Authorities.

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    5. oAuth and External Server Authentication

      Configuring and administration of FM Server using Active Directory & Open Directory or oAuth with Google, Amazon, Microsoft

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    6. Zabbix Server Monitoring

      More easily monitor your server resources and metrics using Zabbix, an open-source software monitoring tool. Even monitor multiple servers at the same time.

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    7. Previous Version Server Discussions

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  4. JavaScript Integration

    1. Java Script and the Web Viewer

      How to take your solution to the next level with a little JS and the Web Viewer.

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    2. Carafe.FM

      Carafe is an open platform for working with JavaScript in FileMaker. It allows you to browse, deploy, create, and/or share JavaScript components in FileMaker.

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  5. Brain Food

    1. Security Concepts

      Accounts & Privileges & Passwords. Information you need to know about security management and concepts.

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    2. The Left Brain

      Complex calculations, advanced scripting and other mind boggling topics.

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    3. Upgrading & Migration

      Transition, upgrade, migrate your legacy solutions.

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    4. Data Analysis

      Discussions about statistics, business intelligence, data visualization, machine learning, or whatever other flavor of data analysis you want.

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    5. Development Standards

      Explore "standards" adopted by developers. Implementation and documentation. Don't start from scratch.

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    6. The Separation Model

      Learn & discuss the pros and cons of developing & maintaining the separation of data & schema.

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    7. Relational Database Theory

      Discussions on what makes a database 'tick'. Non-tech background on database design.

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      discussions on file related issues and procedures for recovering your files.

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  7. FileMaker Classifieds

    1. Announcements of FileMaker Product, Services or Resources

      Want to tell the world about your FileMaker related product or service? Post your press, releases and highlights are welcome...

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      Product Announcements, Services For Hire, Services Wanted, or Solutions Wanted

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    3. Tools Of The Trade

      Third Party plugins, add-ons, reviews. Resources for the developer leveraging the bounty of community offerings.

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  • Blog Entries

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      Interface between FileMaker Pro and cash machine from Banks

      When integrating with a hardware terminal, practically speaking, the only chance you have to integrate is when your merchant services provider has developed and installed some kind of software that allows you to interact with the device. Many years ago I worked with a merchant services provider in Canada that developed an interface called ECRI that allowed us to send amounts to the terminal through an RS232 serial port, then the device would send back the result after the transaction completes. These days, my merchant services provider uses a cloud-based solution where in order to initiate a transaction, you make an API call to your merchant services provider, then they communicate with your hardware device to display the amount and prompt to insert the card. When the transaction completes, a webhook fires the result back to your server. Unfortunately it costs almost a thousand dollars to get your app setup & certified. Stripe has a simple offering, where you communicate directly with the terminal using JavaScript. https://stripe.com/docs/terminal In summary, you need to ask your merchant services provider what options they support, or switch to a developer friendly provider like Stripe.
      jasonwood in FileMaker Pro 19
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      SuperContainer misbehaving after FMS restart

      Hi, We have SuperContainer running on our 2018 Mac Mini under OSX Mojave. We had a disconnection earlier today, so closed the DB's, restarted the Server Opened the DB's then went to Restart the SuperContainer Server but got this Error: "Java - lang.reflect Invocation Target Exception" I went in and reentered our UserName & password but the server keeps report "wrong username". If I restart the server, it continues to show the Wrong User Name error and we can only see the default message in the Web Viewer. as per the attached screenshot. Can I download another java installation to overcome this issue? John Wolff Hamilton, NZ
      JW_NZ in SuperContainer by 360 Works
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      FMS Linux & LetsEncrypt-Certificate?

      @jon91 once you've run this script once, certbot is always going to update the cert in /etc/letsencrypt/live/${DOMAIN}/ 30 days prior to expiry, right? So you don't actually have to repeat the certbot command. I'm assuming when you execute this script, it gives users a 60 second warning and then boots them out forcefully, which could result in lost data, and presumably if I happen to be running a long script that's editing data, it will terminate abruptly at the end of the 60 second countdown? I'm trying to think of a better way... like a daily script that only proceeds if no users are connected, checks if the current certificate file is at least 60 days old, and proceeds to replace it and restart the service. Perhaps if the certificate is over 75 days, then you would consider a more forceful process, and only after sending multiple warnings to users. This is similar to how FileMaker Cloud's daily restart works - it is normally skipped when users are connected, but proceeds anyway if there are "critical updates".
      jasonwood in FileMaker Server 19 (Linux)
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      Custom Functions stored in a database

      Since we got this nice database for JavaScript to do custom functions (see blog article: Custom Functions in JavaScript), we further thought about doing this with FileMaker directly. Imaging to have your custom function in a central start database. Your solution opens, defines your own environment to store them and then loads all your custom functions from a table in the database. You may even have flags to define which are active vs. inactive, testing vs. production quality or maybe limited to admins. Once you have them loaded in memory, you can call them anywhere in any open file as long as FileMaker is running. Here is our example database: As you see we can define functions with as many parameters as needed. Then you enter the body of the function with whatever code you have in your custom functions. We got a button for macOS to format the calculation with our Syntaxcoloring functions. Then we got a button to check errors, which will let FileMaker parse your code with the parameter definition included, so we can find syntax errors. Sadly we can't tell where the error is exactly, but we may tell you if the syntax is okay or what error code we got. Our start script set ups a global dictionary named "CF" in our example using Dictionary.CreateNamed function. Then you add functions there with Dictionary.SetValueForKeyone by one or with Dictionary.AddSQL function as a block. Each function would have comments in front to name the parameters. We use "/// " & $name there, e.g. "/// value". Then later you can call the custom function with our FM.CF function. You pass the dictionary identifier, "CF" in our example. Then you pass the name of the function (case sensitive) and the parameters. As many parameters as you need, so you may define your function with 10 parameters, but only pass 2 or 3 depending on what you do. The dictionary is global for all files and all solutions opened in FileMaker and can be initialized in FileMaker Pro, Server (Scripting + Web Direct) as well as FileMaker iOS SDK based applications. Since we use a dictionary identifier, you can have different sets of custom functions in different namespaces. Please try the JS.CF function with MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 11.3pr3 or later.
      MonkeybreadSoftware in Community Videos, Tips, & Techniques, Articles.
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