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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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Linear Blue

FileMaker Go as a front end to SQL Server

With the release of FileMaker 12 FileMaker has made FileMaker Go free. The reduction in cost makes Go the best product for rapid application development for iOS devices. While using Go within an all FileMaker network with good wireless is trivial its more difficult to use Go as a front end to a SQL Server... Source
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Business Solutions | Power Business | Financial Management | Budget

<p><a href="/blog/filemaker-academy-webinar-building-a-power-business-solution-on-a-budget"><br /><h1>FM Academy Webinar - Kyo Logic: Building a Power Business Solution on a Budget</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/Blog/FMA_BizBudget.jpg" align="right"><img width="130" height="200" src="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/Blog/FMA_BizBudget.jpg" /><br /></a></p> <p>
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Wing Forward Solutions

Triggering a server-side script Part II

Part II will include a custom function to create your URL, an example of a feeder script to manage the process, and an explanation of why the Guest account is necessary. In Part I of this series, I explained how to trigger a server-side script using XML. In this part, I’m going to give you a custom function to aid this process and explain why you need to enable the Guest account. First, the Guest account. To access the XML engine on the FileMaker Server by a browser, a user will always be take
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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Wing Forward Solutions

Triggering a server-side script Part II

Part II will include a custom function to create your URL, an example of a feeder script to manage the process, and an explanation of why the Guest account is necessary. In Part I of this series, I explained how to trigger a server-side script using XML. In this part, I’m going to give you a custom function to aid this process and explain why you need to enable the Guest account. First, the Guest account. To access the XML engine on the FileMaker Server by a browser, a user will always be take
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Brightsource IT | Managed Service Provider | Network Services | Live Tech Support

<p><a href="/blog/skeleton-key-announces-brightsource-it"><br /><h1>It's Official! Skeleton Key Announces Brightsource IT</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p>Just in case you missed it...we made it official! <br />Press Release: </p> <p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/Blog/SK_BITPressReleaseAnnouncementFinal_2012-12-04.jpg" target="new"" align="left"><img width="631" height="717" src="http://www.skeleton
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Hacks

Thinking About Value Lists, part 4

First off, a bit of housekeeping: we now have bright, shiny Print and PDF buttons at the top right of every article. They work like a charm, and I appreciate the suggestions from several of you that motivated me to install them. Well, we’ve reached part 4 in this series that has been going on [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Business Solutions | Dashboard | Database Conversion | Database Consultant

<p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/blog/taming-the-filemaker-beast"><br /><h1>Taming the FileMaker Beast</h1> <p></p></a><br /><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/Blog/hulkmoviewide_480_poster.jpg"><img width="275" height="138" src="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/Blog/hulkmoviewide_480_poster.jpg" /><br /></a></p> <p>I'm running into this scenario a lot lately. I think it's because FileMak
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Skeleton Key Announces Brightsource IT

ST. LOUIS, Missouri -November 30, 2012- Skeleton Key, an accomplished team of technology consultants who solve business problems, is pleased to announce the re-branding of their Information Technology division into sister-company, Brightsource IT. Founded in 2004 with headquarters in St. Louis, Skeleton Key has maintained two successful divisions: Application Development and Information Technology. The Application Development side of the company builds custom-fit business tools and reportin
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Linear Blue

A quick case study in FileMaker scaling

Recently we’ve been looking at how well FileMaker scales. Typically we need to consider this when faced with large volumes of data or high loads caused by user demands on the system. One of the recent instances where we’ve have to closely examine performance was with a call centre client. The system has a large... Source
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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FileMaker Hacks

Thinking About Value Lists, part 3

Welcome to the third installment in this series. We’ve been exploring various issues and behaviors in connection with 2-column value lists (VL’s), and today we’re going to look at, and propose a work around for, an issue with filtered value lists in Find mode. All of today’s demo files feature a basic expense submission system, [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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SeedCode

Countdown: DevCon Tokyo

Just over a week away and Jason’s getting ready for his session at DevCon Tokyo. Big thanks to Shin at fmgateway for the timely translations and local support! Source
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker Hacks

Thinking About Value Lists, part 2

In part 1 we explored a particular type of value list: the field-based two-column variety, based on all values, and set to show values from the second column only… …and today’s article assumes familiarity with that material. This time around we’re going to look at some challenges and issues that can arise when using filtered [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Apple Event | Custom Apps | iPad | iPhone

Join Us for a Custom Business App Workshop at Apple Store - West County Center Join Mark Richman, Skeleton Key, on Tuesday, November 13th at the Apple Store, West County Center from 8:30am to 10am (CST). Mark will host App Spotlight : FileMaker workshop. During the workshop, Mark will expertly demonstrate how FileMaker Go and FileMaker 12 make it easy for anyone to create custom business apps for iPad and iPhone. read more Source
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Hacks

PDF version of FM 12 ExecuteSQL Reference

Beverly Voth has produced a PDF version of The Missing FM 12 ExecuteSQL Reference with some additional material not available in her original posting from October 19th. And the SQL4_fmdev2.fmp12 demo file has been updated with new queries. Thank you Beverly for this major contribution to the FileMaker community. Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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SeedCode

What’s wrong with FileMaker feature requests.

I think this quote finally gets at what bugs me about so many FileMaker feature requests–the long lists of things that would somehow make one’s life as a developer easier: Programmers are obsessed with ease rather than simplicity (thank you Rich Hickey for making this point); or, what t he experience of programming is instead of what the resulting program is like . This leads to useless conversations about semicolons and whether we need a preprocessor that eliminates curly braces. We sti
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Skeleton Key's Blog

FileMaker Server | Module 10 | Training Series | Mark Richman

Follow-up to the recent 'FileMaker Training Series: FileMaker Server' Web Seminar On Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 I delivered two web seminars for FileMaker Inc. to complete their three-part series on the FileMaker Training Series for FileMaker 12. This post is my follow-up to that event, and includes links to resources I mentioned during that event, as well as a few relevant Questions & Answers I fielded via email afterwards. If YOU have any questions that did not get answere
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Starter Solutions | Webinar | FM Academy | IT Solutions

FM Academy Webinar - IT Solutions: Working With and Extending FileMaker 12 Starter Solutions Join Us Thursday, October 25th for a free one-hour webinar at 2pm (EST) / 1pm (CST) / 11am (PST). The topic is, working with and extending the FileMaker 12 starter solutions, hosted by Jerry Salem at IT Solutions. Register here. FileMaker 12 includes a whole new set of starter solutions built from the ground up for the new version of the product. They are beautifully styled using the new th
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Hacks

The Missing FM 12 ExecuteSQL Reference

There seem to be many questions about the usage of SQL (Structured Query Language) with the ExecuteSQL function in FileMaker 12. This tutorial attempts to explain some of the SQL terms, if you are new to writing SQL statements. Since there are already many examples of how to write the ExecuteSQL queries, links to these [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Wing Forward Solutions

Triggering a server-side script Part I

FileMaker does most of its processing client side. That means when a client wants to do a find, or show the result of a calculation, the data necessary to do the action is transferred from the server to the client and the client calculates the result. This is handy because you don’t need super powerful [...] Source
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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Wing Forward Solutions

Triggering a server-side script Part I

FileMaker does most of its processing client side. That means when a client wants to do a find, or show the result of a calculation, the data necessary to do the action is transferred from the server to the client and the client calculates the result. This is handy because you don’t need super powerful servers and the amount of load put on the server itself is reduced. But there’s a tradeoff, in some circumstances, it can also be extraordinarily painful. If a lot of data needs to be moved, the t
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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Wing Forward Solutions

Triggering a server-side script Part I

FileMaker does most of its processing client side. That means when a client wants to do a find, or show the result of a calculation, the data necessary to do the action is transferred from the server to the client and the client calculates the result. This is handy because you don’t need super powerful servers and the amount of load put on the server itself is reduced. But there’s a tradeoff, in some circumstances, it can also be extraordinarily painful. If a lot of data needs to be moved, the t
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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