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Blue Feather's Blog

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Vincenzo Menanno, Beezwax – FileMaker Record Locking – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 2/6/19

If you don’t know which method FileMaker uses for record locking, optimistic vs pessimistic, then you’ll find out during his talk. He’ll share his journey into how he became an optimistic database architect. What are the critical things be aware of when allowing FileMaker to work with optimistic record locking. We’ll look at security considerations when using this approach, and architecture and building solutions for maximum performance while maintaining data accuracy and reliability. Under
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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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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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Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 6/6/18 – 360Deploy 2

Joe Martin from 360Works demos their new product, 360Deploy 2. He shows how you can use 360Deploy 2 to automate deployment of your development files to your production servers with the click of a button. His demo also includes how to set up the 360Deploy 2. 360Deploy 2 can be purchased from 360Works. The post Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 6/6/18 – 360Deploy 2 appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Android, Web. View the full article
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Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 5/2/18 – Web Scraping and Web Viewer Performance Issues

John Greene of United Acceptance Inc. presents on considerations regarding web scraping from FileMaker Web Viewer. Specifically, he addresses what happens when you loop through many hundreds or thousands of records and how to mitigate the risk of overwhelming the executing systems resources.   The post Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 5/2/18 – Web Scraping and Web Viewer Performance Issues appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Android, Web. View the full article
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Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 4/4/18 – Relationship Rescue

Relationship Rescue What does it mean in the Set Field script step when it says “This calculation will be evaluated based on context determined at runtime.”? What is “context”, anyway? It turns out that there are different types of “context” that are relevant to FileMaker development. What do layouts have to do with the relationship graph? What do indexes have to do with relationships? How do the various types of relationships work?What’s the difference between defining a sort in the relationsh
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FileMaker JSON, REST, and the Data API

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.   The post FileMaker JSON, REST, and the Data API appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Android, We
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FileMaker Project Planning & Online Support Resources – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group

Todd Daniel present to the Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group this month. You can download a PDF of Todd’s presentation here. Learn “best practices” for planning and modeling your next FileMaker solution. In the second part of the presentation Toss talk about his favorite resources on the web. The idea is to not reinvent the wheel, but rather tap into existing assets to get your project off the ground faster. It is hoped that this presentation will lead into a lively discussion. The post Fil
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Amazon S3 and CloudFront integration – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 11/1/17

This month Earl Cook from Laser Solutions presented about his integration with FileMaker and Amazon S3 and CloudFront for managing access to video content in a FileMaker solution distributed worldwide.   The post Amazon S3 and CloudFront integration – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 11/1/17 appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Android, Web. View the full article
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Atl Dev Group – FileMaker and Xero, Shopify, and WooCommerce integration

Andrew Duncan from Databuzz will be presenting on integrating FileMaker with Xero, Shopify, and WooCommerce using their products fmAccounting Link and fmEcommerce Link.   The post Atl Dev Group – FileMaker and Xero, Shopify, and WooCommerce integration appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Android, Web. View the full article
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New Features in FileMaker 16 – Atl Dev Meeting 6/7/17

This month we covered some of the new features in FileMaker 16. Check out the recording of our monthly meeting below.   The sample files used in this demo are available for download from https://community.filemaker.com/docs/DOC-8138. This link is supposed to be available to download, but there’s been an error popping up on that page about restricted access which you may experience. View the full article
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Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates for FileMaker Server for Mac

Looking for instructions for Windows? 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 Bash script and a LaunchDaemon 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 reaso
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Live Stream: Integrating FileMaker and Quickbooks with FMBooks Connector

Marc Larochelle from Productive Computing presents about QuickBooks and FileMaker integration at our monthly meeting for May 2017. You’ll learn more about the world of QuickBooks Accounting, the various flavors available today and why customers are interested in connecting QuickBooks with FileMaker.  We’ll explore the tools and skills needed to accomplish this as well as common integration strategies in use today.  Then, we’ll take a deeper dive under the hood to see what a typical integration s
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Live Stream: Nicholas Orr presents BaseElements

Nicholas Orr from Goya presented at our developer meeting this month. Watch the recording of the live-stream to see him demonstrate BaseElements and give a run down on the benefits of developer analysis tools in general, and BaseElements in particular.  He’ll show you how to get the best solution possible from FileMaker using these tools, as well a quick demo of their update builder product : RefreshFM, Web Services server : RESTfm and the free BaseElements plugin.   View the full article
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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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FileMaker 14 New Features Live-Stream Recording

We had a special presentation at the Atlanta FileMaker Developers group meeting last night. Andy LeCates and Darrin Quick from FileMaker, Inc. came by to present some of the new features in FileMaker 14 and answer questions from the attendees. We live-streamed the event on YouTube and Hangouts On Air, where we also had some remote participants watching and asking questions. The recording of the live-stream is available on YouTube below. View the full article
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Importing XML data into FileMaker using XSLT (XSL Transformations)

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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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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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 warm f
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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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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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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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