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For the first time, DB Services has been ranked #3494 on the annual Inc. 5000 list, which ranks the country’s “fastest-growing innovators” based on overall revenue growth over a three-year period. The Inc. 5000 list has brought attention to America’s growing private businesses since 1982.
DB Services now joins the ranks of other Inc. 5000 list alumni such as Facebook, Zappos, Pandora, and others. DB Services is top ranked FileMaker Platinum Business Alliance Partner on the 2019 Inc. 5000 li
The FileMaker Let function is your tool to make a calculation readable, well formatted and easy to debug. Let us discuss how it can be used.
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Michael Layne from Gearbox Solutions presents on FileMaker’s new JSON functions. He does a deep dive into FileMaker’s new JSON functions and demos several examples of how they are using JSON for passing parameters, populating form data, validation and rollback, managing session info such as value lists as global. Michael also demos REST client and REST server with new data API.
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Today I'm happy to announce the release of Elemental for FileMaker. This is a free fully unlocked solution containing some cool user interface and design stuff that I hope you find useful and can incorporate into your own solutions.
You can grab a copy now at https://www.elemental-fm.com
In Elementals first version you'll find the following:
Avatars
Over 20 API integrations with avatar generators. These are uniquely generated based on a name y
Part 2: What Should You Consider When Selecting a Development Partner? What Questions Might You Ask a Potential Developer?
Figuring out how to choose a great developer can be bewildering without some insight about what to look for. In this segment of our seven-part series on choosing and working with a custom app developer, we will eXplore some tips on how to vet developer candidates.
Hiring a developer is about creating a working relationship. You want someone who gets your business
This first video discusses the general FileMaker environment and highlights various folders and files any FileMaker developer should be aware of.
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The Ultimate FileMaker Course is a walk-through of adding essential components found in pretty much any modern FileMaker solution. The course is based around building a useful tool for launching other FileMaker solutions.
By creating a launcher file, which provides full control over launching your other FileMaker solutions, you'll b
Here are links to articles and resources related to today’s FM Training Livestream presentation: Best of FileMaker Hacks Tips, Tricks and Traps, part 2 YouTube link coming soon Demo Files coming soon FMH Articles SortValues and UniqueValues ValuePosition: The Function FileMaker Forgot Sometimes Less Is More Reliable SetRecursion and While It’s Sorta a Value List… Continue reading October 2025 FM Training LivestreamView the full article
Join Beezwax's Vincenzo Menanno and other experts at Claris Community Live to explore the leading analysis tools for Claris FileMaker solutions. Learn to document, optimize, and enhance performance while preventing issues. Gain practical insights and discover InspectorPro, a free tool now supporting GitHub and GitLab integration.View the full article
Take a moment to ponder the concept of 'Software as Art' when it comes to the daily deliverables of those of us crafting the Claris Platform based Solutions . . .View the full article
Working with simple lists of values is one of the most fundamental aspects of building software. FileMaker, like any other development environment, often requires working with lists of values, whether it's a global field used as a relationship key or multiple selections made from a checkbox widget.
In this video, I'll present a number of custom functions that provide common and practical operations for handling lists of values. These functions can be copied and pasted directly into your FileMak
As of May 2025, Claris Studio now includes Custom Views, making it easier to shape dashboards and interfaces around your workflow. You can mix and match elements from different views, create role-specific layouts for team members or vendors, and access your FileMaker data more efficiently. In this article, we’ll explore how Custom Views can simplify your work and share practical examples to help you get started.
Here are links to articles and resources related to today’s FM Training Livestream presentation: Best of FileMaker Hacks Tips, Tricks and Traps YouTube link coming soon Demo Files coming soon Articles Replace + GetNthRecord to Fill Down Sometimes Less Is More Reliable When 2 is greater than 10 Layout Calculations in FileMaker 20.2 Layout Calculations… Continue reading September 2025 FM Training LivestreamView the full article
Download WoodgeNav.fmp12
Making your FileMaker Pro solution easy to navigate is key to providing a great user experience in your solution. WoodgeNav is a free FileMaker navigation solution.
Allison Bell will present "Transforming Time: Five Leadership Strategies to Maximize Impact" at the Build.Grow.Learn 2025 conference in Greenville, SC, from September 8–10. Her session offers practical strategies for business leaders to enhance productivity, define culture, and prioritize long-term success, while promoting team resilience and well-being.View the full article
As any FileMaker solution grows, it's inevitable that errors will creep in as methods and scripts are updated with newer features. And with every new script you add, you're also introducing new opportunities for errors.
For the longest time, we've relied on the Pause on Error checkbox to invoke the debugger when an error occurs. While useful, the constant pop-up of the debugger can quickly interrupt your development "flow" — and honestly, it gets a bit annoying.
Starting with FileMaker 18, we
Learn five strategies for transforming time management into purpose-driven action, aimed at leaders and consultants. It introduces tools like the Priority Matrix, Daily List, Theory of Constraints, Time Blocking, and planning for rest, emphasizing their roles in enhancing focus, alignment, and long-term planning for sustainable success.View the full article
If you’ve ever wished your FileMaker solution could “look” at an image and tell you what’s in it, you’ll be interested in this lesson from the AI Essentials for FileMaker Developers course. This is just one of the many features of AI addressed in the course.
Learn how to use Google Gemini’s Image Analyzer to extract meaning from pictures, whether it is identifying text in a receipt or estimating the value of items on a shelf.
With the included demo file (available in this paid course),
Featuring: Description: In this episode of The Context Podcast, join Martha Zink and Eric Luce as they discuss the suite of JavaScript tools in ProofKit. In the modern era, having an easily accessible app for your clients is crucial. With ProofKit, FileMaker developers without much experience in JavaScript can create clean and functional web apps […]
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FileMaker 2025 Licensing Updates bring simplicity to the Claris platform. With this release, FileMaker Pro, Claris Studio, and Claris Connect are now all included under a single, streamlined license. Over 50,000 organizations worldwide rely on FileMaker to build custom apps fast—now it’s even easier. As a top Claris FileMaker Reseller, we’re breaking down what’s new and what it means for you!
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Here are links to articles and resources related to today’s KYFMP presentation on JSON custom functions and JSONQuery. YouTube links Jan 2025 FM Training Livestream: JSON Custom Functions Aug 2025 Kentuckiana FM Dev Group: JSON CFs and JSONQuery (coming soon) Demo Files coming soon JSON and JSON Custom Functions Thinking About JSON, part 1 (intro… Continue reading Kentuckiana FM Developers JSON PresentationView the full article
One of the fundamental methods for loading a found set of records in FileMaker has traditionally been storing and using the key values of a selected set of records. With the powerful Go To Related Record script step, you can easily load any number of records.
This can be achieved through either a global field relationship or a standard schema relationship. However, with the established method, if you want to store and reload a found set, you need a few additional elements: a Summary field (low
Aside from the welcome user interface refresh in FileMaker 2025, a valuable enhancement has been made to the existing grouping feature. This update encourages greater use of grouped layout objects and helps reduce the number of layout-based calculations, a point of frustration with the previous limitation.
Prior to FileMaker 22, if you applied either a button action (now discouraged) or a hide calculation, you had to ungroup the object before adding anything new to the group. This often caused
FMP TnT – AI Research Assistant
By Doug West
Have you considered using an AI service for some market research? What began as a relatively simple concept turned into a frustrating cycle of trial and error with various input prompts and widely varied results.
The goal was to fully automate a data collection workflow with real-world data found on the web. The ChatGPT API was quickly ruled out because it didn’t support real-time web browsing without a cumbersome integration with a separate web se
The Claris FileMaker 2025 release brings with it a new, more unified Claris platform. To help us all navigate these changes, Claris has released a new platform and licensing FAQ. In it, you’ll find out which plans are eligible for unified access to Claris FileMaker, Claris Connect, and Claris Studio. It also breaks down the […]
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This is a quick follow up to A Tip for MBS “Check Variable Names” from earlier this year. The other day I noticed variable name checking wasn’t working in one of my scripts. The culprit turned out to be MBS’s 500 line default step limit for variable name checking. According to the documentation, the limit… Continue reading Another Tip for MBS “Check Variable Names”View the full article
Demo file: boxed-summary-groups.zip Recently I needed to produce a summary report with variable height rows and each group enclosed in a rectangular box. To make the challenge more interesting, there were multiple fields in the body part, and it was not known in advance which would be tallest. At any rate, the approach I decided… Continue reading Boxed Summary Groups for ReportsView the full article
Becoming familiar with all of FileMaker’s possible technology integrations can take many years. Often, the learning process happens as a side effect of solving a specific need. While you can use almost any other programming language alongside FileMaker, the built-in features can be a breath of fresh air, especially if you haven’t tried them before.
In this video, I take a look at the GetLiveText feature, introduced in version 19.5, which is supported on both macOS and iOS. If you’re using FileM
bBox v1.06 for Claris® FileMaker® adds support for macOS text windows – enabling Apple Intelligence Writing Tools – plus enhanced Python integration. This free utility plug-in allows developers to utilize various programming languages within FileMaker solutions. It includes a demo file with over 220 examples.View the full article
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