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Hacking Your Own FileMaker Platform Solutions

By Steven H. Blackwell April 7, 2016

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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A Conversation About '2 Factor Authentication'

By Josh Ormond February 8, 2016

[ 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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Transactional Processing

Record locking in a multi-user scenario is easy to control on a single record. Just use the Open Record/Request script step and test for an error 301. If the error occurs, stop the script and present a dialog telling the user they can't run that script right now. If no error occurs, the current user now has control of the record and it can be freely modified by a script. However, if your script loops through records or uses the Replace Field Contents script step, the difficulty controlling recor

John Mark Osborne

September 8, 2020

Render Found Set as JSON Object

Demo file: found-set-to-json-object.zip (40MB; requires FM 18 or later) [Author’s note: the demo file is a work in progress. Modify it as you see fit.] Today we’re going to compare various methods one might consider employing to render an arbitrary found set as a JSON object. The demo consists of a table of US customers… Continue reading Render Found Set as JSON Object View the full article

Kevin Frank

September 7, 2020

Web Direct And The Browser Back Button

The post Web Direct And The Browser Back Button appeared first on fmcloud.fm. View the full article

fabriceN

September 4, 2020

WebDirect et bouton retour…

WebDirect a été introduit par Claris à partir de la version 13 de FileMaker et à su évoluer avec le temps en apportant son lot d’améliorations et d’optimisations jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Cette technologie permet d’utiliser vos applications FileMaker depuis un navigateur web via le réseau internet. Claris prenant soin d’apporter une expérience utilisateur très proche de […] Cet article WebDirect et bouton retour… est apparu en premier sur 1-more-thing. View the full article

fabriceN

September 4, 2020

WebDirect et bouton retour…

fabriceN

September 4, 2020

Killer Keywords

In many situations, you'd think the easiest solution would be the best. Saving time and getting the job done quickly. This, however, just isn't the case if you're going to allow users to use a simple text field for managing keywords or tags. A tagging system relies on making it easy for the user, but it may not be so easy to implement itself. Here are a few questions you might be faced with. What happens when one user enters "devloper" on record 1 and another user enters the correctly spelled "

FileMaker Magazine

September 2, 2020

FIleMaker 19 : Obtenir une liste d’identifiants avec Exécuter FileMaker Data API

[ATTENTION: cette video en Anglais est réservée aux geeks :). Elle n’explique pas les détails de la technique. Elle n’est là que pour partager une idée, pas du code prêt à l’emploi] Une de mes fonctionnalités favorites de FileMaker 19 est la nouvelle instruction de script, non documentée, Exécuter FileMaker Data API. Comme je […] Cet article FIleMaker 19 : Obtenir une liste d’identifiants avec Exécuter FileMaker Data API est apparu en premier sur 1-more-thing. View the full article

fabriceN

August 27, 2020

FIleMaker 19 : Obtenir une liste d’identifiants avec Exécuter FileMaker Data API

fabriceN

August 27, 2020

Error Handling & Logging - Updated

When talking about logging, error handling and writing clean code it's never quite as exciting as working on the key features of your solution. Adding in the "cool" stuff and simply making things work is way more fun. Yet, one of the main things you rely on when developing is information from users and from your software itself. If you don't capture any of that helpful information, then you're essentially developing in the dark. You'll get obscure support requests like "It doesn't work." which

FileMaker Magazine

August 27, 2020

JSON Currency Exchange Rates

Currency Exchange Rates Welcome back for another exciting round of JSON exploration. Last time we discussed a JSON-related bug fix in FM 19, as well as a free package tracking service that returns results in JSON format. Today we’re going to look at a free currency conversion service. Demo file: json-exchange-rates.zip I threw together this… Continue reading JSON Currency Exchange Rates View the full article

Kevin Frank

August 25, 2020

JSON Currency Exchange Rates

Currency Exchange Rates Welcome back for another exciting round of JSON exploration. Last time we discussed a JSON-related bug fix in FM 19, as well as a free package tracking service that returns results in JSON format. Today we’re going to look at a free currency exchange rate service. Demo file: json-exchange-rates.zip I threw together… Continue reading JSON Currency Exchange Rates View the full article

Kevin Frank

August 25, 2020

JSON Currency Exchange Rates

Currency Exchange Rates Welcome back for another exciting round of JSON exploration. Last time we discussed a JSON-related bug fix in FM 19, as well as a free package tracking service that returns results in JSON format. Today we’re going to look at a free currency exchange rate service. Demo file: json-exchange-rates.zip I threw together… Continue reading JSON Currency Exchange Rates View the full article

Kevin Frank

August 25, 2020

JSON Currency Exchange Rates

Welcome back for another exciting round of JSON exploration. Last time we discussed a JSON-related bug fix in FM 19, as well as a free package tracking service that returns results in JSON format. Today we’re going to look at a free currency exchange rate service. Demo file: json-exchange-rates.zip I threw together this FileMaker front… Continue reading JSON Currency Exchange Rates View the full article

Kevin Frank

August 25, 2020