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Part 2: What Should You Consider When Selecting a Development Partner? What Questions Might You Ask a Potential Developer?
Hiring a developer is about creating a working relationship. You want someone who gets your business and gets you. Having a good working relationship often determines the success or failure of a development project. Hire someone you are comfortable with who also has the skills necessary to make your project successful. Beyond the quality of the working relationsh
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.
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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
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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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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The ostensible purpose of FM Chat is “chat” –letting your FileMaker users chat and collaborate in a searchable environment that respects FileMaker’s access privileges.
But we think the killer feature of FM Chat is “workflow” –alerting your users of events, and presenting them opportunities to take action.
We’ve recorded a short movie of a simple example: using FM Chat to send invitations to an event, and record who’s accepted:
Going Further. While we created the chat by hand in this
The other day I had a question about some nuance involving script triggers. The details of that particular question aren’t important, but I recalled that when script triggers were first introduced, Wim Decorte had produced a detailed, color-coded reference. I wondered if he had updated it for FM 12, and it turns out that he [...]
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What is Skeleton Key and FM Academy Doing at FileMaker Developer Conference 2012?
We're glad you asked!
Skeleton Key, a Platinum member of the FileMaker Business Alliance and Authorized Trainer will be participating as an exhibitor for the third year at FileMaker's annual Developer Conference. This year it will be held July 16-19, 2012, at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Florida.
We have a couple of updates for our colleagues, about our participation next week:
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Here is the 2012 DevCon schedule as an iCal subscription. Pumped out to Google Calendar from FileMaker Server using Zulu - iCal Sync for FileMaker. Enjoy!
https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/nsbmls3pfj5u4s0an1lcu4r3nc%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
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RCC is happy to announce the immediate availability of FM Starting Point 3.0v4. In this version, we updated the security settings when sending mail via SMTP. We also made a few minor under-the-hood fixes throughout the system. This update is not critical, but it is recommended for those who utilize the SMTP Emailing feature.
You can download your free copy of FM Starting Point at fmstartingpoint.com.
This update is also available to all localized versions of FM Starting Point at fmstartingp
FileMaker Trick : Help Me Help You
Accessing FileMaker's built-in Help is very useful; but, it can be a bit slow. This trick has saved me countless hours over the years when I have needed to reference the Help documents.
Please check out this brief video that I made of this quick-tip. It may prove to be valuable for you as well:
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A little while ago I received an e-mail asking for ideas on how to implement a multiple choice testing database. It just so happens that I had begun to build a database a few years ago which does just that. While it is not finished, I have decided to release a first version for people to download, dissect and use.
Click to read the article and download the database.
In October 2011 I posted a simple backup script that has made my development life easier, but of course that version was for .fp7 files only (the release of FM 12 being six months in the future), and when I began converting files to FileMaker 12, I realized that the backup script was not intelligently [...]
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We’ve started including FogBugz case numbers in our script comments. This lets us move between FBz and FileMaker pretty quickly: from FBz we can easily search* the scripts in FileMaker for the case number, landing right where we might need to make a change, and from FileMaker we can quickly paste the case number into FBz to see what someone’s question was, or what issue was resolved.
*Another place where script search has become part of the daily workflow.
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FM Academy Webinar - 360Works MirrorSync: Offline Synchronization for Your iPad and Laptop
Join Us Thursday, June 28th for a free one-hour webinar at 2pm (EST) / 1pm (CST) / 11am (PST). The topic is, 360Works MirrorSync: offline synchronization for your iPad and laptop. Register here.
MirrorSync from 360Works is a bidirectional synchronization tool for syncing FileMaker Server with offline databases running in FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Go. MirrorSync requires no plug-ins, runs on e
ExecuteSQL Function - FileMaker 12 Web Series Follow Up Q&A
I was overwhelmed by the positive response to my 12 Days of FileMaker 12 - ExecuteSQL webinar. We received a lot of great questions during the session. I've included answers below for all of the questions we weren't able to address during the webinar. If you still have a question, feel free to contact us.
Thanks to everyone who participated live or via the recording. If you missed it, you can still catch the recording at FM A
Meet Our FileMaker 12 Training Series Authorized Trainers
Alan Kirtlink, FileMaker Certified Developer, FileMaker Authorized Trainer
Skeleton Key is pleased to announce that our certified developers, Mark Richman and Alan Kirtlink, are now FileMaker 12 Authorized Trainers after completing the requirements of FileMaker's instructor-led "Train the Trainer" course in April.
Both Mark and Alan attended the Train the Trainer Course at FileMaker, Inc. headquarters in Santa Clara, Califo
One thing I love about this blog is how much I learn from your comments. Having said at the end of part 1 that I couldn’t think of any serious use for a DVL on a check box set, Michael Rocharde kindly provided this example file (Conditionals), which I am sharing with his permission. This [...]
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A few months ago I mentioned “dwindling value lists” in passing, and said I would do a proper article on them at some point in the future. Well, then FM 12 was released and I went on an ExecuteSQL binge, so I’m just now getting around to honoring my promise. Dwindling Value Lists (DVLs) are [...]
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Love seeing what folks are doing to the look of our
calendar! This cool skin is from Reis Adamson is Sydney who mapped the calendar to his own TASKS table and sent us this screen shot. Love the red.
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Accessibility Section 508 - Bonus Topic 3 of 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series
Tuesday, May 29th, marked Bonus Topic #3 of FM Academy's 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series.<p>
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VTC.com and FileMaker developer Richard Carlton announce the release of QuickStart! – FileMaker Go 12 Training Course – designed to educate a typical FileMaker developer on the “ins” and “outs” of FileMaker Go 12 for the iPhone and iPad (http://www.filemaker.com/r/fm_go_pr) from FileMaker, Inc.
Get a quick start into the world of FileMaker on the iPhone and iPad with VTC’s QuickStart! – FileMaker Go 12 training course. Detailed discussions include: Sleep/
Using iPads, FileMaker 12, and GoZyc
Just posted a great case study from the GoZync experts at FullCity Consulting. They’re taking water quality inspections offline on their iPads, the syncing the data–along with signatures and photos–back to the hosted solution as soon as they have cell signal.
Check out the case study.
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Server Performance - Bonus Topic 2 of 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series
Thursday, May 24th, marked Bonus Topic #2 of FM Academy's 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series.
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Window Styles - Bonus Topic 1 of 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Web Series
Great news! By popular demand, FM Academy added 3 sessions to the 12 Days of FileMaker 12 Series.
Tuesday, May 22nd, marked Bonus Topic #1.
Enhancements to the New Window script step will give developers much more control over new windows and their behavior. This webinar presented techniques for utilizing the new “Specify Advanced Styles” option to configure modeless document windows and modal dialog windows. We expl
