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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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FileMaker Magazine

Using Utility Scripts

Learning how to efficiently create scripts within FileMaker is a never ending process. It's a balance of leveraging what you know and mixing in newly added features along with new ways of doing things. Optimization and cleanup will always be part of the ever growing software solution. In this video, I present the topic of using utility scripts in order to save precious development time. You know, those reusable scripts which prevent you from writing unique and dedicated scripts for every possib
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DB Services Blog

FileMaker WebDirect Phone Support

FileMaker WebDirect has been redesigned to be compatible with mobile phones. In the previous release, FileMaker added support for tablet browsers. FileMaker 15 takes it a step further by providing support for mobile phones. Although you could access WebDirect with a phone before, it was not officially supported, mainly due to dialogs being too small for user interaction. https://www.dbservices.com/articles/filemaker-webdirect-phone-support/ dbservices.com
Dev Talk

FileMaker iOS SDK - Part 4

Welcome to the fourth and final part of the FileMaker iOS App SDK series. In the final part of the series I will take you through building and compiling the iOS App. If you haven't yet read through parts 1, 2 and 3; now would be a good time to go take a look. Continue Reading...
JCurrie

JCurrie

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FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker 15 Released

FileMaker 15 was released on May 10th 2016 and includes a few key new technologies. While much of the focus was on the mobile end of things, there are some speed improvements along with some convenience features which will make working in FileMaker 15 just a bit more enjoyable! You can Watch the HD version on YouTube FileMaker Inc. released version 15 on May 10th. Did you miss the news? If so, then here’s a video which goes through the shortlist of new features. One of the biggest changes wa
FileMaker Magazine

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eXcelisys' Blog

Introduction to WordPress Custom Post Types

Intro to WordPress Custom Post Types Welcome to the exciting world of WordPress Custom Post Types! If you have spent any time working with WordPress you know that a basic WordPress site is primarily made up of Pages and Posts. You have probably also noticed that there isn’t a ton of difference between Pages and Posts. Both have similar input fields: a title, some body text, and possibly a featured image. In fact, the main content of a Page or a Post is stored in the very same database table dis
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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FileMaker Hacks

Portal Threading in FM 15

Today’s release of FileMaker Pro 15 brings a welcome performance boost in the form of in-line portal progress indicators, a.k.a threaded portals. Ian Jempson (@ianjempson) was kind enough to provide me with a test file that he built, and today’s demo file is based on Ian’s work, and shared with his permission. The purpose of […] View the full article
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Linear Blue

Creating Stand-alone Apps with FileMaker

Webinar with Linear Blue CEO Paul de Hallé Wednesday 18th May at 16:30 BST / 08:30 PDT Join Linear Blue CEO Paul de Hallé as he discusses the new FileMaker toolkit for building fully native Apps for iPad & iPhone. Tools required in developing a stand-alone app for iPad & iPhone The Development Process Demonstration of... View the full article
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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FileMaker Security Blog

New Security Features In Version 15 FileMaker Platform

The release of Version 15 of the FileMaker Platform brings with it a number of new security features, both in FileMaker® Server 15 and in FileMaker® Pro 15.  FileMaker® Pro 15 Advanced also has one notable security enhancement. I have attached to this BLOG post a new White Paper that details and explains a number of these new features as well as offers some recommendations for their effective use. First however, we should take note that in the past several releases that FileMaker, Inc. ha
FileMaker Magazine

iOS Drill Down Sliders

As software users become more and more familiar with various UX methods, it becomes more and more desirable to emulate those methods within your FileMaker solutions. Common patterns such as tab panels and scrolling lists are a piece of cake and native to FileMaker. Some of the more recent implementations are simple and super easy, like Popovers for example. However, other implementations can be a bit complex and require those ever necessary bits of deep knowledge about how FileMaker works behin
FileMaker Magazine

Performance Review

When your average knowledge worker starts developing with FileMaker Pro, there’s a lot of background and history which may be missing. Especially, when it comes to making certain decisions about schema. We’ve all been at that level at some point in the learning curve, and the process of reworking things is just par for the course. The FileMaker environment makes it so easy to simply add a new calculated value. It’s even part of our mental processing. “Oh, I need to calculate this.” The problem
FileMaker Magazine

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Dev Talk

FileMaker iOS SDK - Part 3

Building an iOS App from a FileMaker Database Welcome to Part 3 of the FileMaker iOS App SDK series, in this article I will take you through creating the project directory that will house our app settings and files. In part 1 and 2 we highlighted some considerations that need to be made when developing our solution for iOS, setup our Apple Developer account, added an App ID, created a provisioning profile and setup Xcode ready for developing our App. Continue Reading...
JCurrie

JCurrie

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Linear Blue

FileMaker Pro Interface design

Over the time I’ve been a developer with Linear Blue I’ve had the opportunity to see a lot of different styles of design. Some good, some bad, some very ugly. The trend in FileMaker Pro interfaces has vastly changed over the years, moving from multicoloured and uncoordinated patchwork layouts to fairly sophisticated and simple layout design.... View the full article
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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FileMaker Hacks

Virtual List Reporting, part 1

Self-plagiarism alert: to avoid repeatedly referring the reader back to earlier virtual list articles, portions of text from those earlier articles are incorporated here. Welcome to the first installment of a two-part series on producing reports using the virtual list technique, or more properly, collection of techniques. Demo file: VLR-part-1.zip Invented and popularized by Bruce Robertson, virtual lists are […] View the full article
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FileMaker Security Blog

The FileMaker Platform API’s Are Your Friends, Right?

The FileMaker Platform API’s Are Your Friends, Right? The FileMaker Platform supports integration with a variety of Application Programming Interfaces (API’s), and it has done so for a very long time. These API’s allow FileMaker Platform developers to integrate their solutions with other technologies and applications. This is an incredibly useful capability; indeed, from both technological and business-process standpoints, it is essential. Many FileMaker developers are not aware, howev
Steven H. Blackwell

Steven H. Blackwell

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Dev Talk

FileMaker iOS SDK - Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of the FileMaker iOS App SDK series, in this article I will take you through setting up Xcode and creating a provisioning profile for an iOS device. Click to read more...
JCurrie

JCurrie

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FileMaker Magazine

Hide Calculation Coolness

One of the best new features added to version 13 of FileMaker was the Hide Calculation. Not only does it allow you to hide any layout element as needed, but it provides access to the calc engine for creating any $local or $$GLOBAL variables on a layout-by-layout basis. Knowing that all layout elements pass through the hide calculation before being rendered to the user is also a helpful thing to know. In this video, I’ll walk you through the process of using the Hide calculation in order to make
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Magazine

Button Bar Tricks

No Access? Watch the preview video here. ButtonBarTricks_Pre.mp4 Attachment Size ButtonBarTricks.zip 372.35 KB By Matt Petrowsky When developing within tools like Xcode, the sky’s the limit in terms of providing user interaction and user feedback. Fortunately, with FileMaker, we have access to many of the core interaction elements from iOS. Popovers are a great example of a critical iOS UI element. When FileMaker 13 was released we got the wonderful Popover objects. To follo
FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Magazine

Button Bar Tricks

When developing within tools like Xcode, the sky’s the limit in terms of providing user interaction and user feedback. Fortunately, with FileMaker, we have access to many of the core interaction elements from iOS. Popovers are a great example of a critical iOS UI element. When FileMaker 13 was released we got the wonderful Popover objects. To follow that up within FileMaker 14, we got the new objects named Button Bars. These new objects were an enhancement on the ages old Button objects. The co
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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Dev Talk

FileMaker iOS SDK - Part 1

As you may be aware FileMaker Inc have given developers a toolset ("SDK") for creating standalone apps for iPhone and iPad, from FileMaker databases. The process is a little tricky and there're plenty of things to be aware of... Click to Read the full article...
JCurrie

JCurrie

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