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Michael Layne from Gearbox Solutions presents on FileMaker’s new JSON functions. He does a deep dive into FileMaker’s new JSON functions and demos several examples of how they are using JSON for passing parameters, populating form data, validation and rollback, managing session info such as value lists as global. Michael also demos REST client and REST server with new data API.
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In the past year and a half here at Geist Interactive, I’ve been tasked with some development work that involves connecting to various APIs. I’ve written modules for clients that get definitions, other forms, synonyms and antonyms, hypernyms and hyponyms of a term from the client’s internal dictionary and such public dictionaries such as Oxford […]
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GoDraw3 is a FileMaker drawing tool for users. For FileMaker developers, however, it is full of customization. A developer can do with it what she wants.
The post GoDraw3: Hack the Heck Out of It appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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Free webinar introducing Karbon our free application framework for building ambitious custom business applications. If you are interested in using the FileMaker Workplace Innovation Platform at a high level you'll probably want to see what we have cooked up.
The post Karbon Webinar – Getting Started appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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The FileMaker Let function is your tool to make a calculation readable, well formatted and easy to debug. Let us discuss how it can be used.
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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...
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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...
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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
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
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
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...
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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...
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<h2>Hey man, Free-base64 is cool with this FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick of Creating a Progress Status Bar</h2>
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<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>
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<h3><em><b>Andy Persons shares his first </b><b>FileMaker
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
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
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
<h2>Using Dynamic Script Triggers in FileMaker Go</h2>
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<p>It was a couple years ago that I was introduced to dynamic script triggering in a video by Matt Petrowski. The basic premise is that you maintain a table with the names of scripts and a label that is presented in a portal view on a layout. You attach a script to an object in that portal and triggering that button would in
Web & HTML standardisation has been a big talking point over the last year with HTML5 now moving into candidate recommendation and becoming very well supported across all the latest major browsers. But why is standardising the web so important? Where do the standards come from? To start explaining why standards are so important for...
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Popovers are one of my favorite things in FileMaker 13. Like tab panels and slide controls they’re a region within a layout, but unlike our other enclosures they don’t take up any space when they’re not in use. We love them. But they have a couple of unexpected behaviors you’ll want to be aware of as you start putting popovers to work.
FileMaker 13 Popover Bugs
Selecting a customer in a popover. From the “invoices” starter solution.
Issue in Web Direct: Portal buttons fail in all but the
FileMaker 13 Slide Controls + Refresh Object = Faster Layouts
For starters, don’t forget about the new script step “Refresh Object”– I did.
I had some icons whose “hide” status was based on the visibility calc :
GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( “Home” ; “isFrontPanel” )
Using a single panel as a refresh enclosure.
Now, isFront doesn’t just evaluate as slide panels move around so I’d added a Refresh Window script step to get them to behave. However, the new script step “Refresh Object” app
<h2>FileMaker launches FileMaker 13 Platform – enables teams to easily create custom business solutions for iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac and the web</h2>
<p><em>Features FileMaker WebDirect: Breakthrough technology for running custom business solutions in a web browser</em></p>
<p>SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Dec. 3, 2013 – FileMaker, Inc. today unveiled the next-generation platform for business productivity: <a href="http://www.filemaker.com/r/beatles">
Hiding FileMaker Objects: The Old Way
Before FileMaker 13 there was no native way to make an object conditionally visible. And sometimes it seems like we developers spent an inordinate amount of our time working around issues of “reflow” and “visibility”: getting objects to slide into the position vacated by now absent objects, and getting objects to show and hide correctly in the first place. Think of button states, error messages, and admin-only areas of our solutions.
Before FileMaker 13
Newest Version of FileMaker Platform
Brings Significant Major Security Enhancement
FileMaker, Inc. today released the latest version of its Platform: FileMaker® Pro 13, FileMaker® Pro 13 Advanced, FileMaker® Server 13, and FileMaker® GO 13. This release brings many significant new features to the platform including the innovative FileMaker WebDirect client access. But to me the most significant enhancement is Encryption of Data at Rest (EAR). Addition of this critical and key function
Ever since we added rich logging to GoZync, I’ve found the logs incredibly helpful. (Look for them to make their way into SeedCode’s next products as well.)
Here is a great example of why they’re so cool (and why having a transparent, scriptable sync helps developers)…
GoZync maintains the last sync log for each user.
A customer recently contacted us to say that their syncs were rolling back due to errors. This was new as they’d been up with GoZync for months.
The logs in their hosted file
First off let me introduce myself to you as the newest member of the development team at Linear Blue. I am currently working here as an apprentice and my journey through that process can be found under our business blog at www.linearblue.com, which I recommend you read if you’d like a back story of where...
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Have you ever wanted to generate sample data for one of your solutions that was random in certain ways, but within a defined range or scope? For example, from an existing table of customers… choose 20 at random create between 4 and 8 invoices for each of them dated anywhere between 1 September and 31 […]
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Missed SeedCode in Chicago?
If you missed Jeff’s presentation at fmproductconference.com, we’ve published his introduction to GoZync here. This is a great overview of what we love most about GoZync and why we use it whenever our customers need to work with FileMaker offline.
Interested in attending a GoZync Webinar?
Jeff will be offering webinars on GoZync following the rough outline of this presentation in the next few weeks. Attendance will be limited to 30 people for each webinar so
Editor’s note: Today it’s my privilege to present an informative guest article written by Jonathan Fletcher on the elusive topic of sorted dynamic value lists. Jonathan is a well-regarded, thoughtful and thought-provoking fixture in the FileMaker community, known for his generous and frequent contributions to various online FileMaker forums. Have you ever had a need […]
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