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Hierarchical JSON Viewer / Editor
By Andy Persons & Doug West
One of the standout new features of FileMaker Pro 16 is native support for the JSON data-interchange format. In addition to providing easy integration with a host of online services, it also provides developers with the tools to create robust hierarchical structures for use entirely within FileMaker. This hierarchical JSON viewer / editor file provides some tools for visualizing, manipulating, and leveraging JSON text.
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For the first time, DB Services has been ranked #3494 on the annual Inc. 5000 list, which ranks the country’s “fastest-growing innovators” based on overall revenue growth over a three-year period. The Inc. 5000 list has brought attention to America’s growing private businesses since 1982.
DB Services now joins the ranks of other Inc. 5000 list alumni such as Facebook, Zappos, Pandora, and others. DB Services is top ranked FileMaker Platinum Business Alliance Partner on the 2019 Inc. 5000 li
GoDraw3 is a FileMaker drawing tool for users. For FileMaker developers, however, it is full of customization. A developer can do with it what she wants.
The post GoDraw3: Hack the Heck Out of It appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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WidgetStudio makes it easy to use, design and share powerful interface widgets, like calendars, gauges, charts, and timers. Pick from the constantly growing set of included widgets or build your own. Freely share them with your customers or friends.
The post Announcing WidgetStudio – FileMaker WebViewer Widgets appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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FileMaker offers many different options for charting, but if you need a chart that is not available in FileMaker, you should consider using Google Charts. Google Charts is a free Javascript framework that can be used in conjunction with web viewers in FileMaker to extend your charting capabilities: https://dbservices.com/articles/google-charts-in-filemaker/
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<p><a href="/blog/lemonade-stand-part-1-forecasting-and-trend-lines"><br /><h1>LEMONADE STAND, PART 1: FORECASTING AND TREND LINES</h1>
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<p>Sometimes as software developers we get caught up in the details of collecting, storing, and displaying data. To our clients, this is rarely the ultimate goal. Our clients want to use data to make better decisions that will increase profits, utilize resources more efficiently, and
<p>In our last few <a href="http://www.gozync.com" target="_blank">GoZync</a> deployments we’ve noticed folks frequently need to pull some related data down to the mobile file, but don’t want (or need) to sync the whole related table. Let’s say you want to get a customer’s credit limit on your iPhone but don’t want to sync the (massive) invoices table that is needed to calculate it. </p>
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<p><a href="/blog/filemaker-training-wherever-you-are-in-2013"><br /><h1>Skeleton Key - FileMaker Training: Wherever You Are in 2013</h1></a></p>
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<p>Skeleton Key will kick off its 2013 FileMaker online training
<h3>The first of a series of small templates built around GoZync.</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.seedcode.com/timezync" target="_blank">TimeZync</a> has finally shipped.</p>
<p>Most firms have a very hard time capturing billable time and TimeZync can help. It may be the fastest way to log time into a FileMaker solution. And it works offline, so folks can enter time wherever, whenever.</p>
<p>Here is an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/wa
Editor’s note: Today we have a guest article written by John Weinshel, whose knowledge of SQL in general, and FileMaker+SQL in particular, runs deep. John’s contributions in various online forums are always worth reading, and it’s a privilege to present his thoughts on this topic here. The new ExecuteSQL() function in Filemaker 12 does not [...]
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<p><a href="/blog/follow-up-filemaker-academy-webinar-filemaker-server-beyond-the-admin-console"><br /><h1>Follow Up to FM Academy Webinar - FileMaker Server - Beyond the Admin Console</h1>
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<p>On November 15th, <a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/Alan_Kirtlink">Alan Kirtlink</a> at <a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com">Skeleton Key</a>, hosted FM Academy's webinar where he showed participants h
One of the cool things that conditional formatting has allowed us to do ever since its introduction in FileMaker 9 is to build inline field labels that become hidden when the field contains text. With the introduction of field state formatting in FileMaker 12, we can take these inline labels even further and make them even more awesome.
http://www.teamdf.com/weetbicks/even-cooler-inline-labels/200/]click to read the full article…
With the release of FileMaker 12 FileMaker has made FileMaker Go free. The reduction in cost makes Go the best product for rapid application development for iOS devices. While using Go within an all FileMaker network with good wireless is trivial its more difficult to use Go as a front end to a SQL Server...
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<p><a href="/blog/filemaker-academy-webinar-building-a-power-business-solution-on-a-budget"><br /><h1>FM Academy Webinar - Kyo Logic: Building a Power Business Solution on a Budget</h1>
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Part II will include a custom function to create your URL, an example of a feeder script to manage the process, and an explanation of why the Guest account is necessary.
In Part I of this series, I explained how to trigger a server-side script using XML. In this part, I’m going to give you a custom function to aid this process and explain why you need to enable the Guest account.
First, the Guest account. To access the XML engine on the FileMaker Server by a browser, a user will always be take
Part II will include a custom function to create your URL, an example of a feeder script to manage the process, and an explanation of why the Guest account is necessary.
In Part I of this series, I explained how to trigger a server-side script using XML. In this part, I’m going to give you a custom function to aid this process and explain why you need to enable the Guest account.
First, the Guest account. To access the XML engine on the FileMaker Server by a browser, a user will always be take
First off, a bit of housekeeping: we now have bright, shiny Print and PDF buttons at the top right of every article. They work like a charm, and I appreciate the suggestions from several of you that motivated me to install them. Well, we’ve reached part 4 in this series that has been going on [...]
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<p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/blog/taming-the-filemaker-beast"><br /><h1>Taming the FileMaker Beast</h1>
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<p>I'm running into this scenario a lot lately. I think it's because FileMak
ST. LOUIS, Missouri -November 30, 2012- Skeleton Key, an accomplished team of technology consultants who solve business problems, is pleased to announce the re-branding of their Information Technology division into sister-company, Brightsource IT.
Founded in 2004 with headquarters in St. Louis, Skeleton Key has maintained two successful divisions: Application Development and Information Technology. The Application Development side of the company builds custom-fit business tools and reportin
Recently we’ve been looking at how well FileMaker scales. Typically we need to consider this when faced with large volumes of data or high loads caused by user demands on the system. One of the recent instances where we’ve have to closely examine performance was with a call centre client. The system has a large...
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Welcome to the third installment in this series. We’ve been exploring various issues and behaviors in connection with 2-column value lists (VL’s), and today we’re going to look at, and propose a work around for, an issue with filtered value lists in Find mode. All of today’s demo files feature a basic expense submission system, [...]
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Just over a week away and Jason’s getting ready for his session at DevCon Tokyo. Big thanks to Shin at fmgateway for the timely translations and local support!
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In part 1 we explored a particular type of value list: the field-based two-column variety, based on all values, and set to show values from the second column only… …and today’s article assumes familiarity with that material. This time around we’re going to look at some challenges and issues that can arise when using filtered [...]
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FM Academy Webinar - Skeleton Key: FileMaker Server - Beyond the Admin Console
Join Us Thursday, November 15th for a free one-hour webinar at 2pm (EST) / 1pm (CST) / 11am (PST). Hosted by Alan Kirtlink at Skeleton Key, we will show you how to select and configure the ideal server for your organization. <p>
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Join Us for a Custom Business App Workshop at Apple Store - West County Center
Join Mark Richman, Skeleton Key, on Tuesday, November 13th at the Apple Store, West County Center from 8:30am to 10am (CST). Mark will host App Spotlight : FileMaker workshop.
During the workshop, Mark will expertly demonstrate how FileMaker Go and FileMaker 12 make it easy for anyone to create custom business apps for iPad and iPhone.
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Beverly Voth has produced a PDF version of The Missing FM 12 ExecuteSQL Reference with some additional material not available in her original posting from October 19th. And the SQL4_fmdev2.fmp12 demo file has been updated with new queries. Thank you Beverly for this major contribution to the FileMaker community.
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