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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 Hacks

Conditional Tab Panel Access

Challenge: in a system with three privilege sets, Employee, Manager and Administrator, you want to control access to various panels on this tab control like so: As usual in the FileMaker world, there are various approaches you could take, and today we’re going to look at three of them with the help of these three […] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=8576" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Skeleton Key's Blog

B2B | Business Apps | iPad Business | Skeleton Key

<p><a href="/blog/6-Ways-Your-Business-Can-Use-iPads"><br /><h1>6 Ways Your Business Can Use iPads</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="/images/Blog/businessipad.jpg" align="left"><img width="300" height="227" src="/images/Blog/businessipad.jpg" /></a></p> <p>We've heard most people agree that iPads are awesome personal-productivity tools. We've also heard that it isn't always so easy to use them to bring
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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RCC's FileMaker News and Bits

FM Starting Point 3.1 Released!

FM Starting Point is a completely FREE FileMaker template designed for use with FileMaker® Pro 12, and is focused on small businesses, work groups, and non-profit organizations. These templates were built with the experience gained from working with these target groups for over 22 years. This updated version includes: -Various Improvements -Bug Fixes Feel free to download it now! http://fmstartingpoint.com/ Source
Richard Carlton

Richard Carlton

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SeedCode

Tag Synced Records as “Checked Out”

One of the most popular sync workflows we see involves marking records as checked out when a mobile user downloads them. This can be used, along with FileMaker’s Access Privileges, to prevent hosted users from changing records a mobile user now “owns”. This is very easy to do in GoZync and really shows off how developers can get inside the scripts and change the sync itself: Learn more about checking out records in GoZync’s docs here. The post Tag Synced Records as “Checked Out” appeared fir
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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SeedCode

Building Things

“The great secret of System Design is to be able to sense what things can be done easily and elegantly by means of a system and what things are hard–and to stay away from the hard things.” – John Gall The post Building Things appeared first on SeedCode. <a href="http://www.seedcode.com/building-things/" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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SeedCode

GoZync Case Study: STAT Bio-Medical

(For those who’ve seen this before we’re just reposting this, having neglected to move it from our old site. For those who haven’t seen this, check out the video below: a great testimonial of what GoZync can do for a customer.) As featured in the DevCon 2011 Keynote, using Sync Zync For FileMaker Go We were thrilled to see Andy LeCates demonstrate GoZync in the DevCon keynote back in 2011. Andy showed off a deployment of GoZync that Todd Geist integrated into a solution for STAT Bio-Medical.
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker Hacks

Conditional Subsummary Report in Browse Mode

Last time we looked at several summary reporting tricks, including a conditional subsummary (when an item’s Status is “Scheduled” it will have a value in the Substatus field — otherwise Substatus will be blank). The challenge was to generate a summary report showing Substatus only where appropriate, without seeing any annoying empty gray rows beneath […] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=8581" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Skeleton Key's Blog

FM Academy | User-Centered Applications | Layout Mode Enhancements | Reusable Code

<p><a href="/blog/FM-Academy-Webinar-Implementing-User-Centered-Applications-With-Reusable-Code"><br /><h1>FM Academy Webinar - Implementing User-Centered Applications with Reusable Code</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="/images/Blog/FMA-150x103.jpg" align="right"><img width="150" height="103" src="/images/Blog/FMA-150x103.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Join us Tuesday, September 24, for a free one-hour webinar at
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Surya Kanta Mekap's Blog

Best practices in layout design for FMGo

1) To create an iOS friendly layout for FMGo, the best practice is to minimize the amount of horizontal and vertical scrolling required to interact on your layout. To achieve the same, we should make a single layout for iPhone having size 320W X 255H and for iPad having size 768W X 673H (instead of making two layouts one for landscape and one for portrait) along with proper anchor locks which will stretch it properly to fit for both the landscape and portrait mode view. 2) We also need to take
Surya Kanta Mekap

Surya Kanta Mekap

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SeedCode

Changes to FileMaker Go in iOS7

Apple’s new operating system for iPhone and iPad changes the way two critical FileMaker functions work in FileMaker Go. While we fully expect a patch from FileMaker very soon, you’ll want to review the issue and either hold off on upgrading to iOS7, retool your FileMaker Go apps, or both. You can read more about this issue, along with our recommendations, here: www.seedcode.com/iOS7 It’s especially important for GoZync users to read up and take this opportunity to update to at least GoZync 4 (
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker Hacks

Summary Reporting Tricks

One of the best ways to learn about a particular FileMaker feature or behavior is to build a demo. You might build one in response to a client request, or to try to answer a question somone has asked, or just to see what happens. At any rate, today we’re going to look at three […] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=8501" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Skeleton Key's Blog

FMRPC | FileMaker Remote Procedure Call | Install | Setup Demo

<p><a href="/blog/FMRPC-How-Easy-Is-Installation-And-Setup"><br /><h1>FMRPC: How Easy is Installation and Setup?</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="/images/Blog/FMRPC_Banner_v1_cropped600x225.jpg" align="left"><img width="400" height="150" src="/images/Blog/FMRPC_Banner_v1_cropped600x225.jpg" /></a></p> <p>FMRPC makes FileMaker Pro and Go perform much faster over the Internet, and it lets FileMaker Go r
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Security Blog

Default Security Settings in FileMaker Pro

From time to time people ask me why the Privilege Set bits in FileMaker Pro are all turned OFF by default. Would it not be easier and better for security purposes, the questions go, if all these were turned ON instead? The answer is No; here is why. First, some history. Prior to the introduction of FileMaker® Pro 7 in March 2004, all of the privileges–as they then existed–were turned on by default. Developers then had to wade through a veritable sea of settings and options to limit acc
Steven H. Blackwell

Steven H. Blackwell

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Post FM Academy Webinar Recap - Keep It Clean: Using the Database Design Report to Assist in Cleaning Your Database

<p><a href="/blog/Post-FM-Academy-Webinar-Recap-Keep-It-Clean-Using-The-Database-Design-Report-To-Assist-In-Cleaning-Your-Database"><br /><h1>Post FM Academy Webinar Recap - Keep It Clean: Using the Database Design Report to Assist in Cleaning Your Database</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><center><a href="/images/Blog/FMA_AugustImage_2013-07-19-150x150.jpg" align="right"><img width="150" height="150" src="/images/Blog/FMA_Aug
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Skeleton Key's Blog

FMRPC | FileMaker Procedure Remote Call | Software Update |Discount

<p><a href="/blog/FMRPC-Update-v1.02-Now-Available-20%-Discount-Price-Reduction-Ends-Saturday-August-31st"><br /><h1>FMRPC Update: v1.02 Now Available &amp; 20% Discount Price Reduction Ends Saturday, August 31st! </h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="/images/Blog/FMRPC_Banner_v1_cropped600x225.jpg" align="left"><img width="400" height="150" src="/images/Blog/FMRPC_Banner_v1_cropped600x225.jpg" /></a></p>
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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SeedCode

JavaScript is Literature is JavaScript

This is what finally got me to read Roberto Bolaño?! Angus Croll: fantastic. The post JavaScript is Literature is JavaScript appeared first on SeedCode. <a href="http://www.seedcode.com/javascript-literature-javascript/" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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SeedCode

First things “first”

Back from DevCon and refocussing, as I think we all are. I’m trying the “desired outcomes” chart again (worked well when I worked it) and am reminded of Benjamin Franklin’s plan for each day: Wish I remembered where I snapped this. Pretty cool. The days when I do the most important thing before I start reacting to email are by far the most productive enjoyable. The “desired outcomes” chart is here. The post First things “first” appeared first on SeedCode. <a href="http://www.seedcode.
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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eXcelisys' Blog

We Love Clients Like Terry!

We are all used to everyone thinking what we do is “easy”. “Shouldn’t take you more than a couple of minutes” is a familiar dictation from some of our self-declared savvy patrons who have voiced in on a chore or task that we know consists of hours and not minutes. So it is refreshing when you get those far and few between letters from a first-rate client who has a sense of humor, has their feet firmly planted on the ground, and are plugged into reality. Since this was such a great communication
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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Skeleton Key's Blog

FM Academy Webinar - Keep It Clean: Using the Database Design Report to Assist in Cleaning Your Database

<p><a href="/blog/FM-Academy-Webinar-Keep-It-Clean-Using-The-Database-Design-Report-To-Assist-In-Cleaning-Your-Database"><br /><h1>FM Academy Webinar - Keep It Clean: Using the Database Design Report to Assist in Cleaning Your Database</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="/images/Blog/FMA_AugustImage_2013-07-19-150x150.jpg" align="right"><img width="150" height="150" src="/images/Blog/FMA_AugustImage_2013-07-19-150x150.jpg" /&g
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Hacks

Benford’s Law

A common exercise in freshman courses on statistics and probability is to divide the students into two groups, let’s call them A and B. Each student in group A is instructed to flip a coin 100 times and record the resulting sequence of heads and tails. Each student in group B is instructed to merely […] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=8423" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Terminal Server | Citrix XenApp | Group Policy

<p><a href="/blog/Managing-FileMaker-Pro-Preferences-Using-Group-Policies"><br /><h1>Managing FileMaker Pro Preferences Using Group Policies</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="/images/Blog/GPOplusFMP%20copy.jpg" align="right"><img width="350" height="146" src="/images/Blog/GPOplusFMP%20copy.jpg" /></a></p> <p><i>The following is a shared blog from Oliver Block, <a href="http://www.brightsourcei
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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SeedCode

20% Off Sale

We’re offering 20% off on all products through August 22nd as part of DevCon 2013. If you need some inspiration, all our FileMaker Syncing Products are on sale: you know you’ll need ‘em sooner or later. You’ll see the 20% taken off as soon as you add an item to your cart. Enjoy! By the way, neither John nor Jason are speaking at the conference this year. We wanted to take the summer to focus on shipping a few things–like SQLx, the new faster GoZync 4, and the brand new SeedCode Subscribe–al
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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eXcelisys' Blog

FileMaker Pro Recursion PT 3 – A Wrinkle in Timeliness: The Final Reckoning

FileMaker Pro Recursion PT 3 - A Wrinkle in Timeliness: The Final Reckoning, By Andy Persons In my first post of this three part series, I posed a challenge: how do you update hundreds or thousands of tasks interconnected with tens of thousands of connections? In my second installment, we explored a possible solution: recursively looping through each task from the end-level tasks, tracing each one to its source, then returning back down the stack and updating the dates along the way. Howe
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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