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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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  • 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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eXcelisys' Blog

FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick: Hide-n-Seek a Button in a FileMaker Pro Portal Row

Ready to Play Hide and Seek with a Button in a FileMaker Pro Portal Row? By Rob Poelking I just figured this out and thought it was cool enough to share with you. It’s pretty commonplace to put a button over a FileMaker Pro portal row object to trigger an event related to that particular row. But sometimes you don’t want a button across the entire row. So then we typically put a visual button off to the side like an “edit” button, but the result can be unsightly seeing “edit” repeated a dozen
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FileMaker Magazine

Cleaning Input Data

Attachment Size CleaningInputData.zip 273.33 KB By Matt Petrowsky Download Video Users make mistakes. There’s no doubt about that. When given the opportunity, they’ll enter characters and text strings you never expected. The easy solution to this problem is to simply control the result of what they’ve input. When capturing the input, there may be a variety of rules regarding how you want the data stored. Do you want to store “4 pm” or 16:00:00? Is the user entering suffixes suc
FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Magazine

Cleaning Input Data

Download Video Users make mistakes. There’s no doubt about that. When given the opportunity, they’ll enter characters and text strings you never expected. The easy solution to this problem is to simply control the result of what they’ve input. When capturing the input, there may be a variety of rules regarding how you want the data stored. Do you want to store “4 pm” or 16:00:00? Is the user entering suffixes such as Jr. or Sr. into the last name field or the first name field? Should the inpu
FileMaker Magazine

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Help iOS users save their data

I ran into a situation recently where a user would not or could not remember to commit their changes before exiting their FileMaker Go solution on their iPad. In this case, the user was using an iPhone or iPad Mini. He pulls it from his pocket, opens a work order, adds some photos and notes, and then sticks the device back in his pocket. Then he does some work (like replacing a window in a building) and then takes some more photos of the completed repair. Read more › The post Help iOS us
Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Magazine

Manipulating CSV Exports

No Access? Watch the preview video here. ManipulatingCSVExports_Pre.mp4 Attachment Size ManipulatingCSVExports.zip 280.29 KB By Matt Petrowsky Exchanging data between systems has always been a matter of format. The output systems needs to output in the expected input format for the inbound system - and it works the same way when going in reverse. When it comes to data interchange formats, some of the most prevalent are arguably CSV (comma separated value) and Tab delimited.
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FileMaker Magazine

Manipulating CSV Exports

Exchanging data between systems has always been a matter of format. The output systems needs to output in the expected input format for the inbound system - and it works the same way when going in reverse. When it comes to data interchange formats, some of the most prevalent are arguably CSV (comma separated value) and Tab delimited. The problem with these formats however, is that one person’s CSV is not necessarily another’s. The CSV “standard” actually has no standard. There is an RFC (Reque
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FileMaker Magazine

Ultra easy vCalendar exporting

No Access? Watch the preview video here. UltraEasyVcalendar_Pre.mp4 Attachment Size UltraEasyVcalendarExporting.zip 275.55 KB By Matt Petrowsky When it comes to accomplishing things within FileMaker Pro, some of the most sublime techniques are also the most empowering. This particular technique, while focused on exporting calendar events, showcases some of my most favorite power-user methods for manipulating data. In my personal scenario, I was provided with a standard sprea
FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Magazine

Ultra easy vCalendar exporting

When it comes to accomplishing things within FileMaker Pro, some of the most sublime techniques are also the most empowering. This particular technique, while focused on exporting calendar events, showcases some of my most favorite power-user methods for manipulating data. In my personal scenario, I was provided with a standard spreadsheet formatted to show a calendar of events broken down month-by-month. The spreadsheet was formatted to be easily used and viewed by humans. It was not, however
FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Hacks

FileMaker UI Tricks: Dual-Purpose Layout

Editor’s note: Today it’s my honor and privilege to present an article by guest author Beverly Voth, whose contributions to the FileMaker community are numerous and much appreciated. It’s great to have her back here on FileMaker Hacks. FileMaker 13 & 14 have some features that can be leveraged to allow one layout to toggle between […] View the full article
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Skeleton Key's Blog

FileMaker Training: Developer Essentials Class in Nashville, TN Area

Skeleton Key will be taking our 3-day Developer Essentials, FileMaker Training class to the Nashville, Tennessee area from Tuesday September 22 to Thursday, September 24. The course will be hosted at: Goodall Homes, 323 Maple Street, Suite 100, Gallatin, TN 37066 Seating is limited. Register ASAP, if you are interested in attending this training class. Read more › The post FileMaker Training: Developer Essentials Class in Nashville, TN Area appeared first on FileMaker Development Company.
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Magazine

User Feedback using Button Bars

Attachment Size ButtonBarFeedback.zip 278 KB Download Video FileMaker 14 introduced a new layout object called a Button Bar. It’s essentially a wrapper around multiple buttons which can be used as either a conventional button or a popover menu. The great thing about button bars is they respect a hierarchy. If you hide the whole Button Bar, then nothing shows. If you hide just one segment, which is what one individual button within the bar is called, then the bar will retain its size
FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Magazine

User Feedback using Button Bars

Download Video FileMaker 14 introduced a new layout object called a Button Bar. It’s essentially a wrapper around multiple buttons which can be used as either a conventional button or a popover menu. The great thing about button bars is they respect a hierarchy. If you hide the whole Button Bar, then nothing shows. If you hide just one segment, which is what one individual button within the bar is called, then the bar will retain its size and simply not show the given segment. All button segm
FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Magazine

QR Code Login Systems

No Access? Watch the preview video here. QRCodes_Pre.mp4 Attachment Size QRLoginSystem.zip 311.86 KB By Matt Petrowsky When QR codes started gaining traction, the world’s developers were full of ideas about how they could be used. Large real-world multi-player games were even created and they started showing up on all kinds of packaging, products and marketing. It was thought that the world would communicate via their mobile devices and go scan crazy when it came to QR codes
FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Magazine

QR Code Login Systems

When QR codes started gaining traction, the world’s developers were full of ideas about how they could be used. Large real-world multi-player games were even created and they started showing up on all kinds of packaging, products and marketing. It was thought that the world would communicate via their mobile devices and go scan crazy when it came to QR codes. The reality, however, was that while they are used quite a bit within industry and in many different ways, their general use is still so
FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Magazine

Understanding Perform Script on Server

No Access? Watch the preview video here. PSOS_Pre.mp4 Attachment Size PSOS.zip 68.07 KB By Matt Petrowsky When FileMaker 13 was released, one of its sleeper features was Perform Script on Server. Yeah, developer’s recognized it, but didn’t really know how to value its power. With the subsequent release of FileMaker 14, and FileMaker Go 14 in particular, the advantages of Perform Script on Server simply can’t be overlooked by anyone creating solutions within FileMaker Pro. I
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FileMaker Magazine

Understanding Perform Script on Server

When FileMaker 13 was released, one of its sleeper features was Perform Script on Server. Yeah, developer’s recognized it, but didn’t really know how to value its power. With the subsequent release of FileMaker 14, and FileMaker Go 14 in particular, the advantages of Perform Script on Server simply can’t be overlooked by anyone creating solutions within FileMaker Pro. If your FileMaker solution has any number of users, beyond a very small number, then the performance gains can be quite signifi
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Linear Blue

Prize Give Away at DevCon 2015

We just want to thank everyone who visited us at our booth at FileMaker DevCon 2015 and for everyone who participated in our big Golden Ticket prize give away, and congratulations to Jeff Hough who won the top Tier version of SyncServer Pro and an Apple Watch. We’ve had a great show and are really excited... View the full article
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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Skeleton Key's Blog

We Are Hiring: Developer

We are hiring! Are you ready to make a meaningful career move? Is it time for you to step into the big leagues and make databases for professionals? Do you want to develop more than a FileMaker database? To be successful in this developer position you must have thick skin, be a fast study and thrive on doing the hard work to get the job done. You should be excited about working in a team environment where accountability is high and your opinion is valued. Read more › The post We Are Hiring
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Magazine

iOS Swiping in FileMaker Go

No Access? Watch the preview video here. iOSSwiping_Pre.mp4 Attachment Size ListSwipe.zip 115.26 KB By Matt Petrowsky Progressive disclosure. It’s the buzzword that’s been around since the mid 2000’s and a concept which has existed since software started hiding preferences. It’s recently been hitting the popular FileMaker airwaves because of the recent widgets we’ve received in FileMaker 13 & 14. When it comes to progressive disclosure, iOS, due to the small screen size
FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Magazine

iOS Swiping in FileMaker Go

Progressive disclosure. It’s the buzzword that’s been around since the mid 2000’s and a concept which has existed since software started hiding preferences. It’s recently been hitting the popular FileMaker airwaves because of the recent widgets we’ve received in FileMaker 13 & 14. When it comes to progressive disclosure, iOS, due to the small screen size of the iPhone, needed to only show what was absolutely necessary in order to keep things clean and simple. With the new user interaction
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