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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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ExecuteSQL – Date Formats

The problem. SQL, including the new ExecuteSQL calc function in FileMaker 12, returns dates in this format: YYYY-MM-DD. This can be a bit of a pain if you have a string of text like this and just want to transform the date part:1170 - 2012-03-09 - - Keep: Beta Presentation @ BRN Co1171 - 2012-03-15 - 08:30:00 - Call Arthur Murray to finalize data1172 - 2012-03-16 - 12:30:00 - Conference call with Melinda1173 - 2012-03-20 - 11:15:00 - @ Breakfast The calc for the results above looks like this
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Layout Mode Enhancements | FileMaker Business Alliance Company | Kyo Logic | Skeleton Key | FileMaker 12

Layout Mode Enhancements - Day 3 of 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series Tuesday, April 17th, marked Day Three of FM Academy's 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series. Layout Mode Enhancements, hosted by Kyo Logic, summary: FileMaker 12 houses powerful new features to align, position and manage objects on your layouts. In this webinar, we explored how these powerful new features will help you design a more consistent and graphically pleasing application. The presenter, John Mathewson, took us
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FM 12 ExecuteSQL, part 1

FileMaker 12 offers many intriguing new features, including new windowing capabilities, significant charting and container field improvements, and a brand new design surface. But to my way of thinking, all of these pale in comparison to the exciting possibilities offered by the new ExecuteSQL function. What’s so great about ExecuteSQL? In a nutshell, it allows [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FileMaker 12 and SuperContainer: A comparison

FileMaker 12 and SuperContainer: A comparison Of all of the new features in the recently released FileMaker 12, one of the most significant is the inclusion of enhanced container fields with managed storage. These enhanced container fields offer users a simple solution to store container assets outside of the database file in order to avoid increasing the size of the database file itself. Solving this issue was the driving force behind the development of 360Works' SuperCont
sarah360works

sarah360works

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FileMaker 12 Layout Tricks: Hiding Tabs

If you wanted to use a tab control on your layout but hide it from your users, you used to have to cover it with another tab and/or make the tab text very small. This is because you both have to visually hide the tab AND prevent users who actually click on it’s tab controls from activating it. While this worked, the layouts were kind of hard to use in layout mode: it was often hard to find the tabs at all. Fortunately this is a lot easier in 12. And not only because tab controls work in layout
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker Go Training Tool

Richard Carlton Consulting is pleased to announce the immediate availability of their FileMaker Go Training Tool. The FileMaker Go Training Tool is designed to help both new and seasoned FileMaker Developers learn the functional differences between FileMaker Pro (for the desktop) and FileMaker Go (for the iPhone and iPad).  While FileMaker Go is fundamentally FileMaker, it does have certain limitations and new capabilities that are specific to iOS – the iPhone and iPad operating systems – as we
Richard Carlton

Richard Carlton

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Cool things to do with Tab Controls in FileMaker 12

FileMaker 12 is here, and with it comes many new cool new features, a lot of which are a result of the new css-based layout engine. In this article we are focusing on one small change borne out of the new layout engine which has massive potential for building new interface controls. Click to read the full article…
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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New Layout Design Surface | FileMaker Business Alliance Company | Anvil Dataworks | IT Solutions

New Layout Design Surface - Day 1 of 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series Tuesday, April 10th, marked Day One of FM Academy's 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series. New Layout Design Surface, hosted by Anvil Dataworks summary: When designing new modules or systems, one bottleneck to the turnaround time involves the development of Interfaces. The layout design surface of FileMaker Pro 12 has given us tools to streamline interface development, revamped layout themes, and give the Inspector
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker Starting Point 3 for FileMaker 12

RCC is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FileMaker Starting Point 3, tuned specifically for FileMaker 12.   FM Starting Point 3 contains all of the great features and capabilities of previous versions, but also features an improved user interface with the upgraded capabilities of FileMaker 12.  FM Starting Point 3 has full support for the iPad, in that all layouts created for the desktop have also been optimized for the iPad.  Because the iPad version of FileMaker is now comple
Richard Carlton

Richard Carlton

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Join us for FM Academy's 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series | FileMaker Business Alliance Company | Anvil Dataworks

Join us for FM Academy's 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series So FileMaker 12 has been released....now what? Join us for free webinars, beginning April 10th through May 17th, presented by the member's of: FM Academy, a collaboration of leading FileMaker development and training companies, is proud to announce the 12 Days of FileMaker 12 webinar series. Each Tuesday and Thursday for the next six weeks the Academy will host a 60-minute webinar on a new feature of the FileMaker 12 produc
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FileMaker 12: Why SQL? (Context Independent)

Simplify and Stay on Screen FileMaker 12 lets us run SQL queries against our own FileMaker tables. This has been possible with plugins for a while and a number of serious devs like Mike Lee, Greg Lane, and Kevin Frank have been talking about what a great technique this is. I completely agree and think the new ExecuteSQL calc function is the killer feature of FileMaker 12. Before SQL There are a few reasons for this and I hope to get to write about more of them. But for now, consider
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker 12: SQL in our Free Calendar

We’re thrilled to announce our new Free Calendar Template for FileMaker 12. We’ve rewritten the free calendar to take advantage of some of the new things in FileMaker 12, including the new look and feel, but perhaps most importantly, the new ExecuteSQL function. This makes the new calendar simpler, less dependent on context, and easier to integrate. Checkout this short introduction demonstrating how this new SQL stuff makes things simpler: Now download a copy of the new calendar and d
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker® Server 12: Bold New Steps

April 27th--Update. We were recently advised that a last minute change in the encryption level of secure storage resulted in that encryption's being 128 bit, not 256 bit as the attached document on Containers states. This is still a strong level of encryption.   April 4th 2012 Today’s release of FileMaker® Server 12, together with its companion FileMaker Pro and FileMaker GO products, marks another important milestone on the FileMaker, Inc. Product Roadmap. FileMaker Server is at the center
Steven H. Blackwell

Steven H. Blackwell

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User-Friendly Excel Exports, part 5

Well, we’ve reached what may well be the final posting in this extended series of articles. We’ve covered a lot of ground, and this article assumes familiarity with what has come before (in parts 1, 1.1, 2, 3 and 4). Today we’re going to look at a couple “Virtual List” implementations of the User-Friendly Excel [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FileMaker Go for iPad in 3 Minutes

We can deliver solutions either as a desktop, web or mobile application, according to your business needs. Recently, technology industry news has been dominated  by the arrival of the tablet and its growing role in helping businesses reach new levels of productivity and success. We can help you utilise the new and powerful FileMaker Go... Source
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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Skeleton Key Looks Forward to FileMaker Developer Conference 2012

Skeleton Key Looks Forward to FileMaker Developer Conference 2012 Skeleton Key is excited to have three speakers at the 2012 FileMaker Developer Conference. The conference is the largest annual gathering of FileMaker database developers, trainers and users. This year it will be held July 16-19, 2012, at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Florida. read more Source
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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User-Friendly Excel Exports, part 4

Colleagues and family members are starting to express concern at my obsessive refusal to bring this series to a close. But we’re getting close. Really. In fact, today, we’re going to look at two cool tricks (and one work around) which are utilized in this article’s demo file, excel exports, part 4, but that could [...] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Skeleton Key - ...the Teacher Will Appear : Path to Certification

...the Teacher Will Appear : Path to Certification Passing the FileMaker certification test... Years ago, on April Fool's day, one of my teacher's gave us the world's hardest test. The questions covered a wide range of 'topics': Sociology: Estimate the sociological problems, which might accompany the end of the world. Construct an experiment to test your theory. Physics: Define the universe and give three examples. Medicine: You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauz
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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