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  • Josh Ormond

    A Conversation About '2 Factor Authentication'

    By Josh Ormond

    [ Edit: 3/16/2016 - With the help of some other people, we have been able to recover, or recreate some of the original images from original thread. ] Security is always a big topic when it involves data, or people, or possessions. Recently, over on the FileMaker Community, there was a very beneficial discussion regarding security. Unfortunately, that discussion was the victim of a necessary action...and was deleted. It was deleted, because the discussion was tied to a video that, as was det
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  • Steven H. Blackwell

    Hacking Your Own FileMaker Platform Solutions

    By Steven H. Blackwell

    Hacking Your Own FileMaker Platform Solutions Should FileMaker Platform developers mount hacking attacks on their own solutions? At first glance, this may seem an odd question. But I believe that the answer is “Yes, we should.” Consider this. As developers we see our solutions from a totally different perspective than Threat Agents see them. Without practicing our own hacking skills, we can become blind to the vulnerabilities a Threat Agent can exploit to compromise the Confidentiality
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SeedCode

SQL Explorer for FileMaker 12

Very proud to have shipped SQL Explorer, a tool for learning SQL (so you can use ExecuteSQL in FileMaker 12) using FileMaker metaphors you already know. You can learn more about the Explorer and download a copy here: SQLexplorer But I wanted to take a moment and point out three things that make this a new kind of product for us… 1. This is the first product we built using a FileMaker 12 theme. All the layouts in the solution are based on the Onyx theme, though we did add some of our ow
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker Hacks

FM 12 ExecuteSQL: Dynamic Parameters, part 2

This is a quick follow-up to part 1, with a couple more observations about dynamic parameters. a) I can’t believe I forgot to mention this the other day:  A major ExecuteSQL headache that dynamic parameters can alleviate is the dreaded “embedded apostrophe” problem. In case you aren’t familiar with it, if your text string has an [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Great Game of Business | Open Book Management | Jack Stack | Busch Stadium | St. Louis

Interested in Learning More About Open-Book Management? Next week marks the 20th annual conference on Open-Book Management, the Gathering of Games. The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch from May 9th through 11th. Conference participants will celebrate and kick off the 20th Anniversary of the Gathering of Games on May 9th, 6pm, at Busch Stadium, home of the 2011 World Series Champions. This networking reception will be an all-inclusive event: dinner,
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Server File Management | FileMaker Business Alliance Company | FileMaker Academy | IT Solutions | FileMaker 12

Server File Management - Day 8 of 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series Thursday, May 3rd, marked Day Eight of FM Academy's 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series. Server File Management, hosted by IT Solutions Consulting summary: Changes in FileMaker Server 12’s Backup scheme, and the new ability to store Container data externally, offer significant improvements in data protection, performance and delivery to the user. In this session we explored how Progressive Backups work. We also di
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Design Surface Behavior Changes | FileMaker Business Alliance Company | FileMaker Academy | Anvil Dataworks | FileMaker 12

Design Surface Behavior Changes - Day 7 of 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series Tuesday, May 1st, marked Day Seven of FM Academy's 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series. Design Surface Behavior Changes, hosted by Anvil Dataworks summary: As files are converted to the new version of FileMaker, we will notice changes to the layout appearance. Objects will use the default themes of a layout, or that rounded or gradient themes options are already applied. In the webinar we will look at the
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Hacks

FM 12 ExecuteSQL: Dynamic Parameters

I have a confession: when I first read about dynamic parameters in the Help entry for ExecuteSQL, my initial reaction was, “Why do they have to make it so darn complicated?”  I have another confession: I am now singing a very different tune indeed. I’ll get to the reason for this in a minute, but [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FileMaker Hacks

FM 12 ExecuteSQL: A Cool Tool

It’s been a fun week experimenting with the ExecuteSQL function, and also seeing what others are doing with it. In some cases the experience has been eye opening, and I strongly recommend that anyone interested in ExecuteSQL grab the SQL Builder file from Eden Morris, available at http://fmforums.com/forum/files/file/25-sql-builder/ This attractive and powerful tool provides a [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FileMaker Hacks

FM 12 ExecuteSQL, part 2

One of the fun things about a new FileMaker release is figuring out how new features work, including subtle behavioral nuances. Today’s demo file, FM12 ExecuteSQL Help Example from CW, is based on Corn Walker’s re-working of one of the demos from part 1, and helps demonstrate how ExecuteSQL fits in with the FileMaker security [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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SeedCode

ExecuteSQL – Date Formats

The problem. SQL, including the new ExecuteSQL calc function in FileMaker 12, returns dates in this format: YYYY-MM-DD. This can be a bit of a pain if you have a string of text like this and just want to transform the date part:1170 - 2012-03-09 - - Keep: Beta Presentation @ BRN Co1171 - 2012-03-15 - 08:30:00 - Call Arthur Murray to finalize data1172 - 2012-03-16 - 12:30:00 - Conference call with Melinda1173 - 2012-03-20 - 11:15:00 - @ Breakfast The calc for the results above looks like this
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Layout Mode Enhancements | FileMaker Business Alliance Company | Kyo Logic | Skeleton Key | FileMaker 12

Layout Mode Enhancements - Day 3 of 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series Tuesday, April 17th, marked Day Three of FM Academy's 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series. Layout Mode Enhancements, hosted by Kyo Logic, summary: FileMaker 12 houses powerful new features to align, position and manage objects on your layouts. In this webinar, we explored how these powerful new features will help you design a more consistent and graphically pleasing application. The presenter, John Mathewson, took us
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Hacks

FM 12 ExecuteSQL, part 1

FileMaker 12 offers many intriguing new features, including new windowing capabilities, significant charting and container field improvements, and a brand new design surface. But to my way of thinking, all of these pale in comparison to the exciting possibilities offered by the new ExecuteSQL function. What’s so great about ExecuteSQL? In a nutshell, it allows [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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360Works Articles and Tutorials

FileMaker 12 and SuperContainer: A comparison

FileMaker 12 and SuperContainer: A comparison Of all of the new features in the recently released FileMaker 12, one of the most significant is the inclusion of enhanced container fields with managed storage. These enhanced container fields offer users a simple solution to store container assets outside of the database file in order to avoid increasing the size of the database file itself. Solving this issue was the driving force behind the development of 360Works' SuperCont
sarah360works

sarah360works

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SeedCode

FileMaker 12 Layout Tricks: Hiding Tabs

If you wanted to use a tab control on your layout but hide it from your users, you used to have to cover it with another tab and/or make the tab text very small. This is because you both have to visually hide the tab AND prevent users who actually click on it’s tab controls from activating it. While this worked, the layouts were kind of hard to use in layout mode: it was often hard to find the tabs at all. Fortunately this is a lot easier in 12. And not only because tab controls work in layout
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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RCC's FileMaker News and Bits

FileMaker Go Training Tool

Richard Carlton Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of their FileMaker Go Training Tool. The FileMaker Go Training Tool is designed to help both new and seasoned FileMaker Developers learn the functional differences between FileMaker Pro (for the desktop) and FileMaker Go (for the iPhone and iPad).  While FileMaker Go is fundamentally FileMaker, it does have certain limitations and new capabilities that are specific to iOS – the iPhone and iPad operating systems – as we
Richard Carlton

Richard Carlton

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FileMaker Weetbicks

Cool things to do with Tab Controls in FileMaker 12

FileMaker 12 is here, and with it comes many new cool new features, a lot of which are a result of the new css-based layout engine. In this article we are focusing on one small change borne out of the new layout engine which has massive potential for building new interface controls. Click to read the full article…
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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Skeleton Key's Blog

New Layout Design Surface | FileMaker Business Alliance Company | Anvil Dataworks | IT Solutions

New Layout Design Surface - Day 1 of 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series Tuesday, April 10th, marked Day One of FM Academy's 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series. New Layout Design Surface, hosted by Anvil Dataworks summary: When designing new modules or systems, one bottleneck to the turnaround time involves the development of Interfaces. The layout design surface of FileMaker Pro 12 has given us tools to streamline interface development, revamped layout themes, and give the Inspector
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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