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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

User-Friendly Excel Exports, part 1

Many end users appreciate FileMaker’s ability to export a found set of records in Excel format — it’s fast, straight-forward and empowering. One request that I have received from clients multiple times over the years is: make the exported field names in the top row of the spreadsheet “human-friendly”… For example, instead of this: …perhaps they [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FileMaker Hacks

Google Route Mapping, part 2

Those of you who attended DevCon 2011 in San Diego may recall meeting Andries Heylen of BH&A, who cheerfully answered questions in the FileMaker Genius Bar. Well, from the sow’s ear demo I posted in part 1, Andries has woven a silk purse (google-route-mapping-part-2), which I am sharing with his permission, and which uses Google [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FileMaker Security Blog

External Server Authentication and [Full Access] Privileges… Life (or FileMaker) May Not Be What At First It Seems

External Server Authentication and [Full Access] Privileges… Life (or FileMaker) May Not Be What At First It Seems -By- Steven H. Blackwell Someone recently advised me about a discussion on a FileMaker List that focused on the supposed ability of a user with an Account authenticated by External Server Authentication and attached to the [Full Access] Privilege Set to make changes in a hosted file’s security schema. (Technically this is a Group, not an Acco
Steven H. Blackwell

Steven H. Blackwell

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FileMaker Weetbicks

A 'Local' Way to Suppress Script Triggers

Script triggers are a great feature in FileMaker that allow you to initiate a script when certain actions occur such as committing a record or leaving a layout. Not only do they run when user initiated, they can also be script initiated by script steps. This can sometimes produce unexpected results and so you may wish for triggers to be disabled. This article presents a very simple and elegant method of suppressing script triggers from firing when initiated by other scripts… Read the Full A
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Layout Sizing

Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Layout Sizing This is the second blog post in a series about Creating a Fundamental Layout for use in FileMaker Go. The goal of this series is to offer practical advice and specific instructions for creating FileMaker Go layouts that look and act the way you, and your users, expect. Today we'll be covering Layout Sizing. Sizing a FileMaker Go layout is based on the idea of being able to Scroll Lock your layout. I cover the explanation and i
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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360Works Articles and Tutorials

Running Credit Cards with FileMaker Go and Plastic

This tutorial video describes how to run credit card transactions from FileMaker Go using the 360Works Plastic plugin. The transcript is attached below, and the video can be watched on YouTube at http://www.youtube.c...bed/qrOucBq6HHg. Hi, I’m Sarah Mulligan from 360Works, and this video is going to demonstrate how to run credit cards from FileMaker Go. We’ll be using a combination of FileMaker Server, FileMaker Go, and a plugin called Plastic. Plastic is a 360Works product that a
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sarah360works

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FileMaker Hacks

Google Route Mapping

The other day someone asked a question on the FMP Experts list about plotting a driving route in Google Maps using FileMaker data. Mark Rubinstein posted a simple solution, and my reactions were, in this order: “No way, it can’t possibly be this easy; better build a demo (google-route-mapping) to find out; wow, it really [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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360Works Articles and Tutorials

Creating a PDF in Instant Web Publishing using RemoteScripter

This tutorial video describes an example of using RemoteScripter to create a PDF in Instant Web Publishing. The video can be viewed on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiNWKGSvI9o. The transcript of the video is provided below. Hi, my name is Sarah Mulligan from 360Works and I'm here today to discuss the scripts and functions behind the 360Works RemoteScripter plug-in. Today we'll be looking at an example where we create a PDF in Instant Web Publishing and save it
sarah360works

sarah360works

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FileMaker Weetbicks

Tips & Hints - The Relationship Graph

In this second article in our series of tips and hints we focus on the relationship graph. Take it as it is - this is just an assortment of our favorite time-savers, shortcuts, tips, hints, tricks, tools of the trade and more… Click to Read the Full Article…
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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SeedCode

GoDraw: markup photos in FileMaker Go

geist interactive has just released a new add on for FileMaker Go that let’s you draw on photos. The unlocked file comes in Free or Pro versions and is easy to integrate into your own files. We’ve been playing with this for a bit and it is awesome! A few highlights: * Draw right on your FileMaker Go Screens * Store the drawing data in your database * Drawing works offline * Save drawings as PDFs – attach to emails * Draw on images, photos, and diagrams, even photos you too with the
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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HOnza's Bits @ FMForums

Marvelous Optimization #4 – Optimized Again

Last September I wrote an article about a custom function that I optimized to evaluate hundreds times faster. At the end of the article, I challenged my readers and myself by claiming that the already optimized custom function can be optimized even further. Do you remember? Later on I actually really optimized it again, and talked about this optimization during my session at Pause On Error [x] London 2011. Now you can watch the video of this part of my session below: Read more and
HOnza

HOnza in Performance Tuning

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Skeleton Key's Blog

Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Understanding Scroll Lock

Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Understanding Scroll Lock This is the first blog post in a series about Creating a Fundamental Layout for use in FileMaker Go. The goal of this series is to offer practical advice and specific instructions for creating FileMaker Go layouts that look and act the way you, and your users, expect. The first topic we'll cover in the series is 'Understanding Scroll Lock'. read more Source
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Weetbicks

Tips & Hints - Layout Mode

This is the first in a series of articles that will present some useful and time saving tidbits for various areas of FileMaker. In this first article we focus on layout mode. There is no rhyme or reason, no common theme - just an assortment of our favorite time-savers, shortcuts, tips, hints, tricks, tools of the trade and more… Read the Full Article Here…
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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FileMaker Hacks

GetAsDate Momentary Head-Scratcher

Recently I was doing some FileMaker training with my older son; we were looking at the “DayOfWeek” function in the data viewer, and I showed him that…     DayOfWeek ( Date ( 1 ; 22 ; 2012 ) ) …returns a 1, since this particular date falls on Sunday, and FileMaker considers Sunday to be the [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Linear Blue

Are FileMaker plug-ins dead?

The release of FileMaker Go has added a new variable to the equation we use when considering whether to use a FileMaker plug-in. We are experiencing a big shift to mobile solutions. Within less than a year ignoring the iOS platform became an unforgivable mistake for every FileMaker developer. When creating a new solution, adding... Source
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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SeedCode

Customer Videos: iCal & Google Calendar Sync

Matthew Hardy of Real Estate Success Tools has put together a great video showing off how he’s using Zulu to link iCal and Google Calendar to his application. Great overview and a link to the video here. And if you haven’t seen his solution, REST, before, take some time to check out the site: it’s really well done. And as Matthew says, between Zulu and FileMaker his users can now interact with REST from any platform. Source
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker Hacks

Locating Matching Records, part 2

Have you ever right-clicked into a field (or Ctrl-clicked if on a Mac) and chosen Find Matching Records? It works remarkably well, but oddly enough, there is no scripted equivalent for this command. Of course if we do a Find Matching Records and then invoke Modify Last Find… …we can see what FileMaker is doing [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Skeleton Key's Blog

FileMaker Developer Tools: A Love-Hate Relationship

FileMaker's Developer Tools: A Love-Hate Relationship FileMaker is a great platform for development and I owe most of my professional success to its success. There are some things about FileMaker Pro that I love and, of course, as with any passionate relationship, there are a few things I would like to see improved. This article will strive to expose my passionate feelings about certain developer features in FileMaker Pro that I both love, and hate, with equal verve. read more Sourc
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Linear Blue

FileMaker Technical Network

The FileMaker Technical Network is now free for FileMaker developers, designers and users to share their knowledge and skills amongst one another. Joining the FileMaker community not only increases your technical knowledge and development skills, but also gives you access to a vast array of resources - Download hundreds of scripts, calculations and custom functions Read how-to articles Receive product news and... Source
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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FileMaker Hacks

Locating Matching Records, part 1

Sometimes a seemingly-simple FileMaker challenge turns out to be more nuanced and educational than first impressions might indicate. This happened recently when I was asked to help make a scripted search behave properly. Most of the time, the existing routine worked correctly, but on certain records it would fail. The challenge: Click a button to [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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