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Accordion Tables in FileMaker

Hello Everyone, We’re happy to release a new accordion table solution for FileMaker. Accordion tables allow you to have expanding rows in a FileMaker layout, fulfilling a similar role as a list view or portal. These are incredibly flexible and allow you to do things like: Nest Multiple Levels of Expanding Tables Combine Data from … Accordion Tables in FileMaker Read More » The post Accordion Tables in FileMaker appeared first on Blue Feather. View the full article

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FileMaker 17 New Features – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 7/11/18

David Nahodyl from Blue Feather will be presenting on the new features in FileMaker 17. Come learn about the new scripting, behaviors, functions, and completely overhauled FileMaker Server interface which come as part of the latest version of FileMaker. The post FileMaker 17 New Features – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 7/11/18 appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Android, Web. View the full article

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How to Use Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates with FileMaker Server for Windows v2.0

Looking for instructions for Mac? Click here! Let’s Encrypt is a non-profit certificate authority with the mission of spreading the SSL love across the internet. Though they’re not officially supported, we can use Let’s Encrypt to get free SSL certificates to use with FileMaker Server. We will use a PowerShell script and the Windows Task Scheduler on Windows Server to retrieve and automatically renew SSL certificates through Let’s Encrypt to make sure our connections to FileMaker Server are

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FileMaker Design Approaches: MVC, Transactions, & Party Model – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 3/4/2020

Michael Layne from Gearbox Solutions presented on implementing 3 approaches/design patterns to a large FileMaker project – MVC, Transactions, and the Party Model. He shares how they went about implementing them and what worked and what didn’t and what lessons were learned. The post FileMaker Design Approaches: MVC, Transactions, & Party Model – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 3/4/2020 appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Mobile, Web. View the full article

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FileMaker Outside the Box – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 2/5/2019

Nick Ciske from LuminFire presents: FileMaker Outside theBox FileMaker does many things well, however thinking outside the box and adding other tools to your toolbox can enhance your solutions. This talk covers a few complementary technologies that can be used with FileMaker to create even more amazing custom apps The post FileMaker Outside the Box – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 2/5/2019 appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Mobile, Web. View the full article

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Claris Connect – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 4/1/2020

Todd Daniel presents on Claris Connect: Integrate and automate all critical applications whether they live on the cloud, on-premise, and even on-device. Bring together your everyday apps to create automated workflows. Quickly integrate popular apps such as QuickBooks, Mailchimp, DocuSign, Box, Slack, Dropbox, and much more. Claris Connect offers the best way to connect critical cloud applications with the real, physical world of devices, servers and sensors. The post Claris Connec

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Introduction to FileMaker Custom Web Publishing (CWP)

Read the original article here. The purpose of this lesson is to create a simple PHP page that will make a connection to a FileMaker database hosted on FileMaker Server and pull information that will be displayed as HTML on a webpage.  This will help you get started with the basics of using FileMaker Custom Web Publishing Objectives: Configure FileMaker Server for CWP access Configure the database for CWP access Create a PHP file which will read data from a database and display t

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New Product Alpha: CloudContainer

CloudContainer Alpha Sign-Up: Store container data in S3 with enhanced interactive container functionality Hello Everyone, We’re working on a new product we’re calling CloudContainer which is an alternative to native FileMaker container fields. This product provides two main new advantages over regular container fields: File storage in Amazon S3 instead of on your server New … New Product Alpha: CloudContainer Read More » The post New Product Alpha: CloudContainer appeared first on Blue Feat

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Installing and updating FileMaker Pro automatically with Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO)

If you’re working in an office with Active Directory and you have more than a couple of computers to install FileMaker Pro on it can be very convenient to use a Group Policy Object to deploy FileMaker to different computers on your domain. This prevents you from having to go to each machine and run the setup program. A GPO can also be used to install updates or uninstall FileMake Pro to different machines on your network. This guide will show you how to set up a GPO to deploy FileMaker Pro to

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Mug raffle for CloudContainer beta testers

Hello Everyone, We’re giving away four Blue Feather mugs as a thank you to the people helping us test CloudContainer. To be eligible, register for a CloudContainer account here and connect your CloudContainer to the storage provider of your choice (such as Amazon S3, Backblaze, Wasabi, etc.) by generating an API key and secret key … Mug raffle for CloudContainer beta testers Read More » The post Mug raffle for CloudContainer beta testers appeared first on Blue Feather. View the full article

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Salvatore Colangelo, Goya – Insert from URL – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 10/3/18

Salvatore Colangelo from Goya presents on using cURL with FileMaker. He shows how to look at Insert From URL and the cURL options in a way that is applicable over and over again to different web services, like a framework. While looking at examples he also highlights some of the most common errors when trying to integrate.   The post Salvatore Colangelo, Goya – Insert from URL – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 10/3/18 appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Android, Web. V

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DevCon 2018 Recap – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 9/5/18

DevCon attendees talk about some interesting topics from DevCon 2018. You can see the videos from DevCon 2018 at the link below: https://content.filemaker.com/e/526331/-devcon-session-materials-2018/8j2gcj/1043433363 The post DevCon 2018 Recap – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 9/5/18 appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Android, Web. View the full article

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Jesse Barnum, 360Works – AWS Services with Filemaker. Atlanta Developers Group 8/1/18

This presentation is NOT about how to run FileMaker Server or FileMaker Cloud using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Instead, we will embark on a one hour tour of the incredibly powerful software as a service (SaaS) offerings from AWS. AWS is the largest cloud computing vendor in the world, with services such as real-time message queues, machine learning, and massive on-demand general computing services. You’ll learn how to interact directly with any of these services by sending AWS requests using the

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Fixed number of x-axis labels in a chart for any number of records

FileMaker has extremely functional charts, but one tricky part I’ve found is making the x-axis display in an appealing format. The values along the x-axis can overlapIf you have a lot of records. Summaries can help with this, but what if you don’t know how many points you’re going to have to plot, or the range which would need to be summarized? For example: A client of mine has an environment monitor that monitors temperature in a manufacturing facility to make sure it doesn’t get too war

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Importing XML data into FileMaker using XSLT (XSL Style Sheets)

FileMaker is capable of importing data from many different sources. One of the most useful is importing from XML data sources, which can be a great way to get data from non-FileMaker resources into your database. XML is used by all sorts of programs and applications, and so you may encounter it when working with many non-filemaker services or data sources. About XML and XSLT XML is a standard way of making writing annotations about data, but each XML document can be formatted in completely d

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How to Use Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates with FileMaker Server

Let’s Encrypt is a non-profit certificate authority with the mission of spreading the SSL love across the internet. Though they’re not officially supported, we can use Let’s Encrypt to get free SSL certificates to use with FileMaker Server. We will use a PowerShell script and the Windows Task Scheduler on Windows Server 2012 R2 to retrieve and automatically renew SSL certificates through Let’s Encrypt to make sure our connections to FileMaker Server are secure. With this, there’s no reason anyon

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Add Ons in FM19 – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 7/1/2020

Jeremy Brown From Geist Interactive presented on the new add-on functionality in FileMaker 19. FileMaker 19’s Open Platform means that we can design add-ons using JavaScript or using FileMaker objects to create a widget to simply drop in to an app for users. This new technology gives us a lot of flexibility in making and … Add Ons in FM19 – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 7/1/2020 Read More » The post Add Ons in FM19 – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 7/1/2020 appeared first on Blue Fea

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New Product Alpha: CloudContainer

CloudContainer Alpha Sign-Up: Store container data in S3 with enhanced interactive container functionality Hello Everyone, We’re working on a new product we’re calling CloudContainer which is an alternative to native FileMaker container fields. This product provides two main new advantages over regular container fields: File storage in Amazon S3 instead of on your server New … New Product Alpha: CloudContainer Read More » The post New Product Alpha: CloudContainer appeared first on Blue Feat

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Claris Connect – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 4/1/2020

Todd Daniel presents on Claris Connect: Integrate and automate all critical applications whether they live on the cloud, on-premise, and even on-device. Bring together your everyday apps to create automated workflows. Quickly integrate popular apps such as QuickBooks, Mailchimp, DocuSign, Box, Slack, Dropbox, and much more. Claris Connect offers the best way to connect critical … Claris Connect – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 4/1/2020 Read More » The post Claris Connect – Atlanta FileMa

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FileMaker Design Approaches: MVC, Transactions, & Party Model – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 3/4/2020

Michael Layne from Gearbox Solutions presented on implementing 3 approaches/design patterns to a large FileMaker project – MVC, Transactions, and the Party Model. He shares how they went about implementing them and what worked and what didn’t and what lessons were learned. The post FileMaker Design Approaches: MVC, Transactions, & Party Model – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 3/4/2020 appeared first on Blue Feather. View the full article

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FileMaker Outside the Box – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 2/5/2019

Nick Ciske from LuminFire presents: FileMaker Outside theBox FileMaker does many things well, however thinking outside the box and adding other tools to your toolbox can enhance your solutions. This talk covers a few complementary technologies that can be used with FileMaker to create even more amazing custom apps The post FileMaker Outside the Box – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 2/5/2019 appeared first on Blue Feather. View the full article

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