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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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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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Syncing Found Sets

Developers love that GoZync can be set to pull just a found set of records down to an iPhone or iPad. Folks use this to deliver just one user’s records–usually very specific things like “my customer visits for today” or “my active orders in this territory”. The QuickContact example file from GoZync: modded to sync flagged records. Less well known but almost cooler is that you can give your users the ability to “push” just a found set of records back to the office. This is great for when yo

John Sindelar

February 11, 2014

Linear Blue

Raspberry Pi GPIO and Node.js

My last post talked about JavaScpipt and how exciting it is to be programming in this language. With this post I thought I would continue and explain a little bit more why it is exciting. A few months ago at Linear Blue the web team began looking into Node.js and inperticular it’s ability to achieve... Source

Paul de Halle

February 10, 2014

SeedCode

Best-Of: FileMaker 13 Animations — Go To Layout

Overview Example file (link below) The animations introduced in FM13 are great, but they still don’t let us animate the transition from one layout to another. This is something we’re looking for as it’s often used in iOS apps to move from list to detail and back again. However, using full-layout slide panels, we can animate layout transitions as long as we’re careful to get the timings right. Our unlocked example file demonstrates how to do this in your own solutions and introduces using

John Sindelar

February 4, 2014

Linear Blue

FileMaker – Instant Web Publishing [IWP] … R.I.P.

I’m sure we can think of some examples of where the deployment of Instant Web Publishing [iWP] for a solution has been successful and served to meet purpose for the end user. There are many examples, however, where IWP has been considered but the limitations proved too much of a stretch to be incorporated into... Source

Paul de Halle

February 3, 2014

SeedCode

Under the Hood with Sync: GoZync Webinar Recording

Syncing FileMaker Go If you’re looking to learn more about syncing FileMaker Go, this Jan 7 webinar features demos of some of GoZync’s features along with a good deal of Q&A from the audience. Enjoy! Learn more about Syncing FileMaker Go with GoZync: GoZync download, demo & screenshots. The post Under the Hood with Sync: GoZync Webinar Recording appeared first on SeedCode. Source

John Sindelar

January 27, 2014

Linear Blue

Reporting gotchas in FM 12 & 13

FileMaker 13 has been with us for a few weeks now and with it comes a new set of gotchas. I thought I would share a couple of things to watch out for when producing printed (pdf) reports (one of which was introduced in 12). In FileMaker 12 in the Layout Setup dialog we were... Source

Paul de Halle

January 27, 2014

Linear Blue

30 years of Apple Macintosh

Here’s to 30 years of the Macintosh platform. Having started my journey into programming and computers back in the days of DOS and command prompts, I quickly fell in love with the beauty of the design, simplicity and power that the Macintosh gave to the user. 30 years on and I still love working on... Source

Paul de Halle

January 24, 2014

SeedCode

iOS Calendars (that work with FileMaker)

I collect all the new calendars for iOS, even the terribly strange ones (for example, try to use–or to even pronounce–”Schelandars“). Add an event in iCalendar One of my favorites is currently iCalendar which has a nice clean display and a simple interface for linking contacts and places to an event. Of course any of these iOS calendars can show events from FileMaker if you’re using SeedCode Subscribe: once you add a Subscribe URL as a source on your iPhone it’s available to any calendar

John Sindelar

January 23, 2014

SeedCode

Old Notifications: sorry about that

Our blog re-sent some notifications for a few old posts this morning: sorry for the unwanted email. Not quite sure what happened as we received them also. I apologize for the interruption. - John The post Old Notifications: sorry about that appeared first on SeedCode. Source

John Sindelar

January 22, 2014

SeedCode

FileMaker Publishes GoZync Case Study

FileMaker, Inc. has just published a case study featuring GoZync; it highlights the mobile solution SeedCode built for Blueprint Capital. Blueprint is one of the largest residential construction lenders in Seattle and their whole lending practice is run from a FileMaker solution named Blueprint Connect™. Blueprint Mobile: offline inspections synced to FileMaker Server Read FileMaker’s GoZync Case Study . Details follow for developers considering adding GoZync to their own solutions…

John Sindelar

January 22, 2014

SeedCode

Tip: Add a Wayback Machine to your FileMaker Audit Logs

Leverage your FileMaker Audit Logs Here is a common reporting request: the customer has a project with a status field that changes over time. They’d like a report that shows what the status of the project was on a given date in the past. This can be pretty hard to do if you hadn’t anticipated this request to begin with. Fortunately, running a FileMaker audit log isn’t that tough and makes answering questions like this much simpler. In our case we had been running a version of Ray Cologon’s Ult

John Sindelar

January 21, 2014

Linear Blue

What is Responsive Design and Why Does My Site Need it?

Responsive design is something you may have heard about in recent months but may not know exactly what it means or what it’s meant to do. With the way the web is now shaping, Responsive design is something that is key to any online business’s continued survival. So, what is responsive design? A responsively designed... Source

Paul de Halle

January 21, 2014

Linear Blue

I have some idea what I’m doing!

Welcome back, in Part 1 I started talking about what it’s been like for me to start learning FileMaker. Today I talk about about what my impressions are having had some experience, what the future might hold, and what I’m expecting to find along the way. Part 2 I’m now three months down the line... Source

Paul de Halle

January 13, 2014

Linear Blue

JavaScript, exciting times

Over the past 10 or more years JavaScript has existed as a means of aiding developers in manipulating the DOM or Document Object Model of web browsers, to this day not much has changed, except that JavaScript has grown up and become more powerful. The biggest bugbear with JavaScript was the differences in behaviour between... Source

Paul de Halle

January 8, 2014

SeedCode

25% Off on All FileMaker Templates — through the end of the day

Last day of our Year-End Sale. Get a head start in 2014: all SeedCode offerings are on sale for 25% off through Dec 31. That includes upgrades and additional licenses. So if your solution is growing, or you’d like to quickly add some value for your users, consider bolting on some SeedCode in the new year. And if you’re new to all this, dive in with some of our free stuff. Both the free versions of our Calendar and of GoZync let you add real value to your solutions while learning more about how

John Sindelar

December 31, 2013

SeedCode

I Wish I Could Make A Video Game

Fish. Shredder. Catch the People. Yes, that is the actual name of the game I made with my 5yr old son. It’s a good name. =) Go play. Requires Chrome. Spacebar to fire. (Good luck) Something that I remember fondly as a child was spending hours in front of my Nintendo playing every game I could get my hands on. My classmates and I would even fantasize about making our own video game and drew out some very crude game designs to show off our great ideas. So when I was trying to brainstorm some

John Sindelar

December 31, 2013

SeedCode

Best-Of: FileMaker 13 Buttons and Icons

Making FileMaker 13 Buttons Easy to Modify FileMaker 12 and 13 give us a lot of new tools for making buttons look great. But if you want to use both an icon and text in your button you’ll need to make some tough decisions as this isn’t well supported out of the box. The main issue is that while you can use an image as the fill for a button, you can’t position it to the left or right of the button’s text. This means a lot of folks are making their buttons completely in Photoshop–and making a se

John Sindelar

December 26, 2013

Linear Blue

FileMaker Go Development: All I want for Christmas …..

Having developed some solutions for iOS devices over recent months in FileMaker 12 I thought I’d reflect on the recent enhancements provided by the release of FileMaker 13. Clearly FileMaker have put considerable emphasis on the ability to quickly deploy efficient solutions that behave as though they were an integral component of either iPad or... Source

Paul de Halle

December 23, 2013

Linear Blue

Generation of QR codes

There are several ways of generating a bar code in FileMaker, the main ones being, a formatted field with a barcode font or using a plugin. The difference being that plugins give more control over the attributes and return a graphic. If you want to generate a QR code there is no font option but we... Source

Paul de Halle

December 17, 2013

eXcelisys' Blog

FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick – Let’s free-base64 on a Status Progress Bar!

<p> </p> <h2>Hey man, Free-base64 is cool with this FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick of Creating a Progress Status Bar</h2> <p> <br />Or for those who are true nerdy geeks -</p> <h2>All your base64 are belong to us, But We’ll Share this FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick of Creating a Progress Status Bar</h2> <p> </p> <h3><em><b>Andy Persons shares his first </b><b>FileMaker

eXcelisys

December 17, 2013

SeedCode

Best Of FileMaker 13 SQL: New Clauses for ExecuteSQL

One of the less obvious, but exciting new features in FileMaker 13 is the two new clauses available in FileMaker’s SQL syntax. It’s less obvious, because you need to read the new FileMaker SQL Reference Guide to see they’ve been added. (Here is the FileMaker 13 SQL Reference. All FM13 docs are here.) The new clauses are OFFSET and FETCH FIRST. We’ve been asking for these functions in the FMSQL engine since the plug-in days, and they’re finally here. They give you the ability to slice your r

John Sindelar

December 17, 2013

SeedCode

Best-Of: FileMaker 13 Animations

More Fun with FileMaker Animations: Slide Panels http://www.seedcode.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AnimatedSwitch.mp4 By carefully positioning images within slide panels we can get a nice animated effect when clicking a simple switch. This doesn’t use any tricky code, just a very careful placement of the image inside a slide control whose radius has been set to match that of the switch image. Just like a regular button, we use a simple script to set the field value our switch represents–th

John Sindelar

December 16, 2013

SeedCode

Year-End Sale: 25% off everything

Start the new year with the tools you need. All SeedCode products are on sale for 25% off through Dec 31. That includes upgrades and additional licenses. So if your solution is growing, or you’d like to quickly add some value for your users, consider bolting on some SeedCode in the new year. And if you’re new to all this, dive in with some of our free stuff. Both the free versions of our Calendar and of GoZync let you add real value to your solutions while learning more about how SeedCode uses

John Sindelar

December 11, 2013