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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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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

John Sindelar

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eXcelisys' Blog

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

<p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>How to Video: Integrate a Progress Bar into your FileMaker Pro 13 Solutions</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h4><em>By Richard Carlton Consulting</em></h4> <p>&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;<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

eXcelisys

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eXcelisys' Blog

FileMaker Webinar – Getting Rid of Paper-based Processes

<h4>Presented by; Doug West, Kurt Knippel, and Christo</h4> <p>&nbsp;</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

eXcelisys

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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

Paul de Halle

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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... View the full article
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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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

John Sindelar

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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

Richard Carlton

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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

John Sindelar

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eXcelisys' Blog

FileMaker Pro Tips-n-Tricks: A New Home-Page for FileMaker Server 13

<h3>FileMaker Pro Tips-n-Tricks: A New Home-Page for FileMaker Server 13</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h4><b style="color: #000000;">Über Awesome Sauce for FileMaker Server 13</b></h4> <p style="color: #000000;">We’re going to take the original default index page on your FileMaker Server 13, and replace it with something a little more interesting, and a lot more useful.</p> <p style="color: #000000;">As I’m sure you’ll recognize
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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SeedCode

Data Modeling Sessions (my favorite)

The data modeling sessions at Pause have always had a big impact and so far there are some great ones planned for October in Portland. Dave Graham – Workforce.org : Let’s Party! – pitfalls and benefits to implementing a Party Model and generalized frameworks in FileMaker. Jason Young – SeedCode : Wet and Dry Development in FileMaker checking our assumptions Todd Geist – geistinteractive : Universal Context You can get there from here! Kevin Frank : Runtime Code – Blurring the distinction bet
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Blue Feather's Blog

Importing XML data into FileMaker using XSLT (XSL Style Sheets)

FileMaker is capable of importing data from many different sources. One of the most useful is importing from XML data sources, which can be a great way to get data from non-FileMaker resources into your database. XML is used by all sorts of programs and applications, and so you may encounter it when working with many non-filemaker services or data sources. About XML and XSLT XML is a standard way of making writing annotations about data, but each XML document can be formatted in completely d
Smef

Smef

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Blue Feather's Blog

Importing XML data into FileMaker using XSLT (XSL Transformations)

FileMaker is capable of importing data from many different sources. One of the most useful is importing from XML data sources, which can be a great way to get data from non-FileMaker resources into your database. XML is used by all sorts of programs and applications, and so you may encounter it when working with many non-filemaker services or data sources. About XML and XSLT XML is a standard way of making writing annotations about data, but each XML document can be formatted in completely d
Smef

Smef

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Linear Blue

Standards! Standards! Read All About It!

With FileMaker being such a versatile and quick development application it is often too easy to develop a functional solution with little regard for its legacy and, in particular, how the solution is to be supported, maintained and developed in the future. As developers, either commissioned or “in house” our support of a system may... Source
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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Linear Blue

Standards! Standards! Read All About It!

With FileMaker being such a versatile and quick development application it is often too easy to develop a functional solution with little regard for its legacy and, in particular, how the solution is to be supported, maintained and developed in the future. As developers, either commissioned or “in house” our support of a system may... View the full article
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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Thorsen Consulting

JumpStartFM, Molly Connolly’s one-month online FileMaker training course begins October 6, 2014

by JumpStartFM online FileMaker training course begins 10/6/14. Molly Connolly’s next one-month online FileMaker training course, JumpStartFM begins on October 6, 2014. Download the JumpStartFM.FAQ for more information. JumpStartFM is a great training resource for busy software developers. This month long, project-oriented course is taught by Molly Connolly, David Knight, Cris Ippolite, Matt Navarre and Debbie Zempel. Developers attend twelve online classes  and complete project work on their
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mollyc

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SeedCode

Hover Tricks for FileMaker Buttons

A couple of demos showing how you can reveal additional text, or even new buttons, when rolling over buttons in FileMaker 13. We used to hide text from some button states by making the text unusually large, but Jason Young showed us a much better method. More in the video below. Download the “Hover Tricks” example file towards the bottom of our downloads page. Want more? Subscribe to SeedCode for more tips. The post Hover Tricks for FileMaker Buttons appeared first on SeedCode. Source
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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eXcelisys' Blog

FileMaker Pro Progress Bar V3

V3 FileMaker Pro Progress Bar – Gangsta with Gradients! OK, one last riff on progress bars! The V2 FileMaker Pro Progress Bar demo file showed how to have the bar change color based on the percentage, such as changing the entire bar from green to yellow to red as the percentage increased. That approach has some good uses (showing how full a container is, for instance), but some people had something else in mind: having the bar incrementally change color as it progressed. In other words, a g
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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Blue Feather's Blog

Fixed number of x-axis labels in a chart for any number of records

FileMaker has extremely functional charts, but one tricky part I’ve found is making the x-axis display in an appealing format. The values along the x-axis can overlapIf you have a lot of records. Summaries can help with this, but what if you don’t know how many points you’re going to have to plot, or the range which would need to be summarized? For example: A client of mine has an environment monitor that monitors temperature in a manufacturing facility to make sure it doesn’t get too war
Smef

Smef

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Blue Feather's Blog

Fixed number of x-axis labels in a chart for any number of records

FileMaker has extremely functional charts, but one tricky part I’ve found is making the x-axis display in an appealing format. The values along the x-axis can overlapIf you have a lot of records. Summaries can help with this, but what if you don’t know how many points you’re going to have to plot, or the range which would need to be summarized? For example: A client of mine has an environment monitor that monitors temperature in a manufacturing facility to make sure it doesn’t get too warm f
Smef

Smef

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SeedCode

The Running Test

Testing code is one thing, but how do we test our ideas. (I’m not talking about validating ideas with customers as in Lean Startup, but testing an idea against your gut. Is there a way to measure that?) When you’re small, opportunity costs are huge–your best customer is another customer you didn’t meet–so how do you know at a real gut level if you’re making a decision for the right reasons or if you’re reacting to fear? How you do test if you’re aligned with your idea? The Running Test is one
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker Weetbicks

Proper Printing in WebDirect

FileMaker WebDirect is the exciting new replacement to Instant Web Publishing. With it you can access your database via a web browser and do *almost* all of the things that you can do in FileMaker Pro. However proper printing is not one of them. In this article we present a framework and example file for doing proper printing via WebDirect - from basic record printing to complex sub-summary reports and more... Click to read the full article here!
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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eXcelisys' Blog

FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick – V2 FileMaker Pro Progress Bar

<h4 style="color: #000000;">By Andy Persons</h4> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2 style="color: #000000;">The Next Generation of the FileMaker Pro Progress Bar Using base64</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="color: #000000;">After we posted the FileMaker Pro 13 Progress Bar demo file using a base64 image last December, one frequent request we received was for a way to have the bar change color based on its percentage. For example, changing from gr
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Our #FileMakerDevCon Recap

<p>Confession: I'm late in writing this blog. After all, FileMaker's 2014 Developer Conference (DevCon) was 2+ weeks ago. Referring to <a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/who_we_are/meet_the_team/mark_richman/" target="_blank">Mark Richman's</a> common advice: <em>don't let perfect be the enemy of good</em>, I decided to write it anyway. It's still relevant and good news. I hope you agree. </p> <h4>DevCon in San Antonio</h4> <p>By all ac
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