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FileMaker Kanban is the latest tool that offers familiar functionality for users and flexibility for the developer. It offers great functionality and organizes your data visually into lanes and cards.
The post FileMaker Kanban: Organize Your Data appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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The FileMaker Script Debugger is powerful. Its features are often overlooked. In this post we examine the buttons that control stepping through a script.
The post Like a Boss: Using the Script Debugger to its Full Potential appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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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
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
Hi all,
Today I'm happy to announce the release of Elemental for FileMaker. This is a free fully unlocked solution containing some cool user interface and design stuff that I hope you find useful and can incorporate into your own solutions.
You can grab a copy now at https://www.elemental-fm.com
In Elementals first version you'll find the following:
Avatars
Over 20 API integrations with avatar generators. These are uniquely generated based on a name y
Leverage the true power of the Claris FileMaker platform as a workflow hub for your business by integrating with Teamwork. Leverage the power of Teamwork as a project management tool while integrating into your existing workflows by creating projects and tasks and using webhooks to get updates on progress. Video and download file included. Read the full article here.
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Your business has grown and evolved over the years, and your Claris FileMaker database has been keeping pace with you the entire time. Unlike other applications, this solution you built does everything you need, it fits your business rules, rather than forcing you to adapt your workflows to an off-the-shelf application.
You built it yourself way back when by grabbing a QuickStart guide, locked yourself in your office, started by hammering out a few tables, a few layouts, and a couple of scri
Sometimes, it's the little things you learn that make working with Claris/FileMaker so enjoyable. Things like making a Button Bar balanced when hiding segments and not having to use any scripts or extra code (unless desired) to do it.
This video presents a great little technique of how you can use a Hide calculation on your button bar segments yet still maintain the same relative button size. With this little bit of know-how, you can easily stack various button bars and provide all kinds of pro
I love my smart home. I also feel really fortunate to have it, especially given how my wife and I are complete opposites when it comes to technology. She admires the simple practicality of pen and paper, while the computer nerd in me always tries to squeeze out any efficiency in my everyday process (which is lived mostly on a computer screen). It started with a light switch When we moved into our new house last summer, I was able […]
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The latest entry into the Artificial Intelligence scene is OpenAI's ChatGPT. ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) is a language model designed to produce conversation-style results for its users. Because of its conversational nature, a ChatGPT integration with your FileMaker solution has the potential to increase your automation and efficiency without sacrificing the human-like feel. Includes demo file and video. Check it out here.
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We are thrilled to announce that fmcloud.fm has recently deployed its services in a new data center in Warsaw. This is great news for our customers in Poland, Slovakia, Baltic countries, Hungary, and also in Scandinavia, or Berlin area, but the primary reason for this move is to continue supporting our Ukrainian customers and projects that help Ukraine resist the ongoing invasion.
For over a year, fmcloud.fm has been hosting such projects for free, and we are now taking the next step by investi
The new Claris platform offers some interesting potential for implementing data solutions in your organisation. You may be brand new to Claris, or a seasoned FileMaker user with existing solutions. Either way, the best way to look at the Claris platform is with a new problem that you need to solve. In this article, we will start to look at the planning and implementation required to get a Claris platform solution up and running. We will start from scratch — nothing built yet, so nothing to consi
Since the official launch of Claris Studio in September 2022, Claris has continued to make strides with exciting updates to the Claris Platform. We discuss some of our favorite new features in Claris Studio, Claris Pro, and Claris Go since September's launch here.
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When you first develop your FileMaker solution you're typically dealing with sample and/or test data. Everything works great. It's fast and efficient and you're guessing users will just love using it. Until you hear feedback like "It takes forever to simply see a list of people to pick from."
As you scratch your head wondering why things got slow, it's likely because you didn't think about what's happening on every record of that simple little portal. Your once wonderful complex filter, which w
If you are in any way connected with the world of Claris, you will have heard about the new Claris platform. With a soft release in September 2022, things have been progressing in all products across the platform. If you want to catch up, have a read of our previous article “Introducing the Claris platform” and a curated pathway on the Claris Community. Now we are six months down the track, many people are asking whether they should switch from the FileMaker platform to the Claris platform? What
Assessing the good, the bad and the ugly of your FileMaker system
If you have a Claris FileMaker database that plays an important role in your organization, you know there are some good things about it, some bad things, and maybe even some things that are ugly enough to cause real problems for you and your business if left unaddressed.
This is the scenario we see every day. To help customers identify, sort through and prioritize those issues, we have developed and refined a very unique
Demo file: json-rates-via-api-exchangerate-host.zip Today we’re going to take a fresh look at pulling currency exchange rates into FileMaker, and this article is directly based on its predecessor. Why the re-visitation? Two reasons actually: The “free” endpoints I relied on back in 2020 (and in 2021 when I revised the original demo) have been monetized, and… Continue reading JSON Currency Exchange Rates revisitedView the full article
Featuring: Description: In this episode of The Context Podcast, we are joined by Todd Geist, Corn Walker, and Peter Vinogradov for an epic debate between Team Pro-Transactions and Team Anti-Transactions. They dive in and discuss the benefits (and bad habits) that come with transactions in Claris FileMaker 19.6. FileMaker’s 19.6 version release brought simplification and cleanup to the developer side of transactions, creating new commands to cut down on multistep processes and turning hard-to-re
Tout consultant FileMaker, et les bien des utilisateurs ont besoin d’une certaine visibilité pour maintenir leur confiance dans la plateforme FileMaker et celle appelée à lui succéder, la plateforme Claris. Il y a quelques mois, Claris avait annoncé cette nouvelle plateforme, dont le très médiatisé Claris Studio est la facette la plus visible, mais ces […]
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When it comes to choosing a hosting service that involves the security of your data, its accessibility, and the performance of the applications you build for your customers, there are no friendships involved. Matt Petrowsky (ISO Production FileMaker Magazine) and Fabrice Nordmann have known each other for many years, and have even collaborated on a number of videos in the hallways of DevCon, but if Matt decides today to communicate about his choice of fmcloud.fm, it is certainly not just to plea
Learning everything you can do with Claris/FileMaker scripts is such a wonderful journey. When you first start using the available script triggers, it often becomes a bit of an issue if you aren't fully aware of all the impacts. This video is an update to older videos which didn't have the insights presented in this video.
If you've been using Script Triggers within Claris/FileMaker for some time, then you might want to give this video a watch to see if you're missing any of the latest and grea
Learning everything you can do with Claris/FileMaker scripts is such a wonderful journey. When you first start using the available script triggers, it often becomes a bit of an issue if you aren't fully aware of all the impacts. This video is an update to older videos which didn't have the insights presented in this video.
If you've been using Script Triggers within Claris/FileMaker for some time, then you might want to give this video a watch to see if you're missing any of the latest and grea
Claris Pro has a new file extension with an updated file format to make files compatible with all Claris platform products. The new extension is .claris for all Claris Pro files. When you create a new file with Claris Pro, it will naturally have the .claris extension. This article is for existing FileMaker Pro users who are switching to the new Claris Pro. Any existing .fmp12 files will need to be converted before they can be opened with Claris Pro. Conversion Basics Converting a single .fmp12 f
Use Case When you need to store a significant amount of container data, we have a solution that allows you to store the files in the cloud rather than worry about disk space. Curious how we do it? Read on. Container storage options Embedded Container data is usually embedded in the FileMaker file, so that your file does not have any dependencies. Everything is in one place so it’s easy to move around. However, if you store more than 40 […]
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Otto: Proof+Geist & fmcloud.fm partner to offer you the best price
A year ago, we were extremely pleased to announce that the release of Otto for Linux allowed us to propose Otto to you. We’re still in love with this product and think it’s a must have for FileMaker consultants working with multiple servers or simply releasing versions of their apps with the Data Migration Tool.
Today, fmcloud.fm is proud to announce that Otto has never been so affordable
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Running Claris Server on Ubuntu Linux, a white paper by Claris
Claris International has recently released a white paper:
Running Claris Server on Ubuntu Linux.
about Ubuntu and Claris Server, the server component of the new Claris platform.
It is a must read if you want to understand the benefits of the Linux Ubuntu plaftorm and why Clari
Developing software in FileMaker can be such a joy when you're able to solve so many problems so quickly. There is, however, a point where you start to solve so many problems that your solution starts to slow down and you find yourself wondering why.
Most commonly, it's the result of cumulative features compounding to make your solution slower and slower. Without careful consideration of the user interface, and how features are presented, it's easy to create a solution which starts to lag over
Claris Studio has another View called List. It is used to group records to keep track of them by category. To be technically correct, the view is called List View. Not sure why this is the only View that has the word ‘View’ in it! That makes it a List View View.List is the newest of the current set of Views available in Claris Studio. We have covered the other types of Views in previous articles: Spreadsheet Form Dashboard Kanban List-Detail When working with a table in Claris Studio, you will l
