It’s well known that we have advocated for using JavaScript in Claris FileMaker for many years. Both yours truly and Todd, separately and now together, talk JavaScript and its use in our platform. Todd realized the language could be used in FileMaker since the moment the web viewer was introduced in FileMaker 8.5, and I. […]
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In a previous post, we wrote about the new Execute FileMaker Data API script step. We wrote about its JSON-constructed data-gathering abilities. We’re pretty excited about this step. It’s useful for gathering a found set of records to display in a JavaScript-based add-on and for passing records to an API. But this new script step […]
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In a previous post, we wrote about the new Execute FileMaker Data API script step. We wrote about its JSON-constructed data-gathering abilities. We’re pretty excited about this step. It’s useful for gathering a found set of records to display in a JavaScript-based add-on and for passing records to an API. But this new script step […]
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Geist Interactive is ready for FileMaker 19. All of us are fully briefed on the new features, we’ve downloaded our copies, and we’re beginning to use the Open Platform for our clients. We are ready, and if you need us to build you add-ons or modules, if you need us to solve your problems (we […]
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Geist Interactive is ready for FileMaker 19. All of us are fully briefed on the new features, we’ve downloaded our copies, and we’re beginning to use the Open Platform for our clients. We are ready, and if you need us to build you add-ons or modules, if you need us to solve your problems (we […]
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FMPerception, the only Realtime Developer Intelligence Tool in the Claris Community, is ready for FileMaker Pro 19’s new and changed features. Dave Ramsey, the creator of the tool, has ensured that FMPerception will help you as you begin to use FileMaker 19 to create apps for your clients. FMPerception features, of course, change to reflect […]
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FMPerception, the only Realtime Developer Intelligence Tool in the Claris Community, is ready for FileMaker Pro 19’s new and changed features. Dave Ramsey, the creator of the tool, has ensured that FMPerception will help you as you begin to use FileMaker 19 to create apps for your clients. FMPerception features, of course, change to reflect […]
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In this post we explore the new script step Execute FileMaker Data API. It's an awesome step with great potential. Read on to learn more.
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Claris FileMaker 19 is the biggest release since FileMaker 7. It has the potential to change how we think about and build FileMaker applications forever. There are a host of new features for FileMaker users and advanced developers can now use powerful technologies, like machine learning and JavaScript to extend the platform in new directions, […]
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Geist Interactive is here for you. Our three featured products, Otto, FMPerception, and LedgerLink are dev tools that you can use to be solve workflow problems for you or your customers. They’re used by many people all over the world, and they drastically improve your efficiency in your development work. We realize these tools have […]
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Newbury Park, CA March 4, 2020 Geist Interactive is proud to announce that we are now a Claris Partner-Connect. This new designation demonstrates our ongoing commitment to support the Claris International Workplace Innovation Platfom’s mission and the confidence Claris has in our ability to provide excellent service to our clients. Claris Connect is an Integration […]
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Geist Interactive believes in education. That’s why we commit so many resources to teaching everything we know about building valuable applications and digital experiences with the FileMaker platform. And it’s also why we helped found and directly support One Spark Academy, a non profit learning center for middle school age kids in Thousand Oaks, CA. […]
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That’s right, it is time for Geist Interactive’s Awesome Cyber Monday Sale All of our products, renewals, and implementation packages are discounted big time! If the above image doesn’t get you excited, I don’t know what will! Act fast. This sale is going on for a limited time! There’s NO CODE needed. When you add items to your shopping […]
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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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We at Geist Interactive have released a new podcast (well new in the last eight weeks): The Context Podcast.
Our podcast is focused on higher-level discussions of the FileMaker platform. We discuss (and embrace) innovation and technology inside and outside of FileMaker. We talk with guests from all around the community about their thoughts on whatever topic is on deck. We also try to ask the guest their thoughts on the context of certain techniques we use in our projects.
So far we've
FileMaker DevCon 2019 is done, over, kaput. The FileMaker & JavaScript training session we led during the conference brought over 100 people together to learn the basics of JavaScript inside of FIleMaker. It was a long day of learning and stumbling and success, and many of the attendees found a lot of value in it. […]
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Introducing the Context Podcast: talking about all things Innovation in FileMaker and beyond.
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At FileMaker DevCon 2019, I led over one hundred FileMaker developers in six hours of learning and working with JavaScript. It was a good day. We learned a lot. We made lots of mistakes. We fixed those mistakes. We felt pangs of frustration with the web viewer object. And we shouted with satisfaction when we […]
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Geist Interactive Team wins two FBA Excellence Awards at the FileMaker 2019 DevCon
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Otto 2.1.5 includes an App Store. You can instantly install 3rd Party applications on your Otto powered FileMaker Server with a single click, making it super easy to demo interesting applications.
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Geist Interactive's DevCon 2019 Sale is back and better than ever. Get 20% off products in our store. If your order total is $3000 or more you'll get an additional 10% off. That adds up to 30% off. Implementation Packages are 10% off. The discount will be automatically applied when you check out.
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The FileMaker Workplace Innovation Platform is the perfect tool to build all or parts of the Custom Application Network that every business has.
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FileMaker DevCon 2019 training session on JavaScript will dive deep. If you're attending or considering the training, read this and get yourself ready.
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WidgetStudio, the best tool out there to create and customize and deploy FileMaker web viewer widgets, is only a few months old. Yet its creator, Carson Lind of Eagle Optimizations, has added many new features to the dev tool. His goal was to make it easier to create and customize widgets. And he did so […]
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Today our FileMaker DevOps tool , Otto, gets a big upgrade; automated offsite backups to any S3 compatible storage service.
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