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A Conversation About '2 Factor Authentication'

By Josh Ormond February 8, 2016

[ 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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Hacking Your Own FileMaker Platform Solutions

By Steven H. Blackwell April 7, 2016

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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Mods: Multi-Point Google Maps

We’ve recently seen some great examples of modding multi-point Google Maps in FileMaker Layouts. Here are two very slick mods based on our ProMaps template… Filtering (and Color Coding) Based on Found Sets. This first mod was done by Lisette Wilson of Informing Designs; she’s linked ProMaps to SeedCode Calendar so that the contents of the map change as users navigate the calendar. That alone is pretty cool, but she’s also letting users change the way the appointments on the map are color coded

John Sindelar

March 6, 2015

SeedCode

A Custom Sidebar for DayBack Calendar

Adding a FileMaker Portal next to DayBack’s WebViewer Recently Arie Covrigaru of PlanOmatic ( http://planomatic.com ) hired us to add some custom features to his DayBack calendar. His main request was to be able to filter the calendar by resource(s) by selecting from a searchable, scrolling list. And he wanted that in the main calendar window, beside his calendar, not in the “advanced filters” popup window where this is usually done. The solution was to nudge the webviewer object 300 pixels to

John Sindelar

February 24, 2015

SeedCode

FileMaker Data Modeling with Selector Connector

Overview The Selector-Connector is a data model for organizing your FileMaker table occurrence graph. It is something we’ve been loosely collaborating on with our friend and colleague Todd Geist. I say loosely, because during the evolution of the model, we never really reviewed each others work, but talked in very general terms about our progress. The fact that we ended up with something so functionally similar makes me think that we’re actually onto something! Todd has a great post and video o

John Sindelar

February 24, 2015

SeedCode

Mapping Found Sets

ProMaps, our Google Maps add-on for FileMaker, lets you use filters to constrain which locations show up in the map. But sometimes you want to go beyond filters and show the results of an ad hoc find request. Using the new List Of function in FileMaker 13 this is now a simple mod and we’ve written up instructions to add this to your copy of ProMaps. Learn more about ProMaps and checkout some movies of it in action here: ProMaps for FileMaker The post Mapping Found Sets appeared first on

John Sindelar

February 6, 2015

SeedCode

A JavaScript Approach to FileMaker Custom Web Publishing

This is the beginning of a new, open source project to create a lightweight wrapper for FileMaker Custom Web Publishing designed for use in JavaScript applications. Background: DayBack DayBack running in a FileMaker layout. The release of DayBack for FileMaker last month has started a very exciting time for us here at SeedCode! Bringing the Calendar to a new code base and seeing it successfully deployed in the real world has been nothing short of thrilling. We’ve recently added mobile sup

John Sindelar

February 4, 2015

SeedCode

Sudoku for FileMaker

Travis Spangle has posted a great example file showing Sudoku in FileMaker. It includes a couple example screens for those of us who didn’t grow up playing Brain Age (guilty). Dowload the unlocked file here: filemaker-sudoku. Thanks for this, Travis! Travis is a member of FileMaker Seattle where he’s also presented some great stuff comparing the speed trade-off of different architectures in his reporting solutions. If you’re in Seattle, our next meeting is this Tuesday where Cosma from to

John Sindelar

February 3, 2015

eXcelisys' Blog

Video – Quick Single-Double Click Trick

Video: FileMaker Pro Tip -n- Trick: Quick Single-Double Click Trick Video By Richard Carlton Consulting & Content Provided by eXcelisys RCC came across Andy’s FileMaker Pro Tip -n- Trick single-double click quick demo file and loved the simplicity of how it helps you add the ability to support a double-click on objects within FileMaker Pro. He thought this FileMaker Pro tip -n- trick was so ingenious and simple, that he asked us if he could make a video that would explain fo

eXcelisys

January 23, 2015

SeedCode

JavaScript Portals for FileMaker: Clicking on Rows

Coming full circle with JavaScript and SQLexplorer Having the opportunity to work on a project like SQLExplorer has been a highpoint in my FileMaker career. It was a great way to participate in the collective learning of the ExecuteSQL function by the community when it first hit the scene. But, it’s also been a great way to get a handle on the increasingly popular interaction of FileMaker Pro and JavaScript. The Idea: JavaScript Portals for FileMaker SQLexplorer has always displayed your quer

John Sindelar

January 15, 2015

FileMaker Weetbicks

Unlocking Hidden Error Messages in the ExecuteSQL Function

Hi all, Just posted the first FileMaker Weetbicks article for 2015 about a neat hidden feature of data viewer and the ExecueSQL function which allows you to get meaningful error messages when debugging SQL queries used with the function. You can check it out here - Unlocking Hidden Error Messages in the ExecuteSQL Function Look forward to peoples comments and further findings! Cheers, Daniel

Daniel Wood

January 7, 2015

FileMaker Security Blog

Protecting Deployed FileMaker Platform Systems in the Age of Cyber Attacks

The recent cyber attack on Sony Pictures serves as a new, additional, and very loud wake-up call for businesses all over the world about the need to protect digital assets. Organizations who use the FileMaker Platform to manage their businesses and whose databases contain proprietary and sensitive information, business process control methods, or financial data especially need to be diligent about data protection. If you are a small business, an education institution, a not-for-profit organizati

Steven H. Blackwell

December 18, 2014

eXcelisys' Blog

Double-Single Click Trick

FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick: A Double-Single Click Trick By Andy Persons A nice little FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick showing you a double-single click trick! Have you ever wanted to add support for double-clicking in your FileMaker Pro solutions? FileMaker Pro doesn’t currently support that natively, but various workarounds have been created over the years. Unfortunately, none of the techniques I found support exclusive actions. BOTH the single and double-click actions occur when t

eXcelisys

December 16, 2014

SeedCode

FileMaker Templates On Sale

SeedCode’s year-end sale continues through Dec 31st. And we’re thrilled to have finished both the new SeedCode Complete template and the new calendar, DayBack, in time for the sale: the last mile of shipping a product–the wish-list features, sample data, and documentation–can seem to stretch on forever. We’ve rarely taken so long to work on a new release, but they’re done! So now you can save up to 25% off on upgrades to our newest calendar, on GoZync and additional GoZync licenses, and on upg

John Sindelar

December 15, 2014

SeedCode

Printing PDFs in FileMaker WebDirect

FileMaker’s WebDirect offers some exciting deployment opportunities. However, not being able to create PDFs or print like we can with Pro and Go is a big limitation. For many of us, an invoice may exist in a database, but until it’s represented as a printable document, it’s just not a real invoice. Finding a solution to this for the new SeedCode Complete was a high priority for us. We looked at some plug-ins out there that allow FileMaker Server to generate PDFs: MonkeyBread and 360Works’ Scrib

John Sindelar

December 11, 2014

SeedCode

The New SeedCode Complete: what we’ve learned about FM13

The new version of SeedCode Complete is almost here. This is the platform we use to start new projects and this new version lets us share a lot of what we’ve learned about FileMaker 13, about WebDirect, and about making solutions that are easy to maintain. If you’re new to Complete, this unlocked template links contacts to projects, invoices, and activity on the calendar. Added to that in this version is purchasing, inventory, and shipments. We’ve wired up the tough stuff: you add the specifics

John Sindelar

November 26, 2014

eXcelisys' Blog

Tip-n-Trick: Gotcha’s When Assigning and Using Variables

Gotcha’s When Assigning and Using Variables by Andy Frazier “Learn from the master, you must!” "alt="Programming Languages" width="300" height="192" /> If you do any development outside of FileMaker Pro (and trust me, if only to learn different ways of approaching problems, you really should), you know that there’s a “gotcha” when assigning and using variables. In several languages, you can assign a variable like this: $myvariable = ‘my value'

eXcelisys

November 13, 2014

SeedCode

The Fear

Reading The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder 1981. Describing work on the Data General MV/8000 in 1979. Alsing [lead architect] thought that even under the best circumstances, several kinds of fear attend a debugging. One was the fear of “The Big Mistake”, the one that would be discovered late in the game and would require a major redesign–and with it perhaps a fatal delay. There was “the flakey fear”: that they’d designed [the machine] and were debugging it in such a way that it would never

John Sindelar

November 8, 2014

eXcelisys' Blog

How to Video: Integrate a Progress Bar into your FileMaker Pro 13 Solutions

<p> </p> <h2>How to Video: Integrate a Progress Bar into your FileMaker Pro 13 Solutions</h2> <p> </p> <h4><em>By Richard Carlton Consulting</em></h4> <p> <br /> <br />While developing videos for their FileMaker Pro video course (www.learningfilemaker.com) … RCC ran into our cool FileMaker Pro 13 progress bar demo file done by Andy Persons that helps you create and integrate

eXcelisys

November 6, 2014

eXcelisys' Blog

FileMaker Webinar – Getting Rid of Paper-based Processes

<h4>Presented by; Doug West, Kurt Knippel, and Christo</h4> <p> </p> <h3>Getting Rid of Paper-based Processes using the FileMaker Platform</h3> <p>More businesses today are seeking alternatives to legacy paper-based processes. Companies of all sizes are replacing photocopiers with iPads, reducing storage costs, and severely improving data collection time and accuracy with efficient solutions that automate and empower their local and mobile

eXcelisys

October 28, 2014

Linear Blue

Old ways vs New ways

As developers one of the hardest things for us year on year is pushing the limits of what we write and can feasibly do as developers. This leads us to get stuck in habits, whether that is code related in terms of syntax, structure related or interface. We like to do the same things repetitively... Source

Paul de Halle

October 23, 2014

Linear Blue

Old ways vs New ways

Paul de Halle

October 23, 2014

SeedCode

Drag & Drop Example File

Love this little demo we put together for FileMaker DevCon 2009. A customer recently asked about this and I thought folks might like to see it. The demo shows how to create a grid of buttons without having to use different script parameters on all the different buttons. It’s also a tidy example of scripts used in drag and drop. Enjoy! Download “Drag & Drop Example File: Airplane Seating Demo” from www.seedcode.com/downloads Oh, and check out that cell phone icon on About / Contact Us… it

John Sindelar

October 22, 2014

RCC's FileMaker News and Bits

FM Starting Point 4.2

Worlds Most Popular FREE FileMaker Solution Gets Major Update! FM Starting Point 4.2 available today, now has full integrated support for barcode printing and scanning. From searching for Contacts via barcode to adding line items to Invoices and Estimates, FMSP has you covered. We have partnered up with Geist Interactive (developer of Barcode Creator) to make this a reality. Currently, you can scan any barcode into FMSP and do a search or add line items but with Barcode Creator you have the

Richard Carlton

October 17, 2014

SeedCode

Project Management Grammar Hack: Time Words

Using time words Projects wander. Customers have unreasonable expectations. We make promises we can’t keep and that our customers misinterpret. Yet a simple grammar hack may help curb all of this. Consider the difference in clarity between these two versions of a project’s “next steps” we might send to a customer: “The project would cost $X,XXX and take about two weeks. We’ll also need your high-res images.” Versus the clearer version: “The project would cost $X,XXX. After we receive your p

John Sindelar

October 9, 2014