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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.
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Demo file: a-value-list-experiment.zip Note 1: today’s demo is recycled from the one that accompanied Virtual Portal, part 2. All we care about today is how we assign the parent company; the remainder can be ignored. Note 2: if you’re unclear on value list basics, check out Thinking About Value Lists, part 1. “I want it… Continue reading A Value List Experiment View the full article
The wonderful thing about creating software is it feels like you're able to create your own universe. You're the master of that universe and how it functions and reacts to its users. It's a very empowering feeling to know you can direct and control data in a way that makes it useful to others.
When considering all the directions that software can take there's always that simple fact that different people like different things. Heck, someone buys the Rhubarb from the grocery store - because they
With our new free FileMaker add-on, FM Draw, you'll be able to write on images in FileMaker in just a few simple steps. Whether you're looking to make notations to a design or highlight sections of an image, we have you covered! Read the full article and download the add-on here. https://dbservices.com/blog/fm-draw
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Portals are wonderful tools for showing related data relevant to what your solution is solving. Sometimes, however, there's a trick to getting them to show exactly what you want. The combination of functions required may not always be obvious and it can be hard to achieve the desired result.
Essentially, you have to know how to extract the specific key values which allow you to filter only the desired rows. In this video, I walk through all the specifics of creating a custom function which allo
There's this special feeling you get when developing software where you feel like you've created something magical. Sometimes, it doesn't even matter if you've done the same type of thing before. It just feels like you're the master of the universe and you've created something super useful.
This may even be the case when you're simply creating a virtual trash can and providing users with the ability to reverse course on that accidental record deletion.
In this video, we're taking a look at a s
It’s been a few weeks since the Claris FileMaker add-ons were put into the product. A lot has happened since then. People have explored them using the sample data and even their own. The community is now filled with questions about these new packages of functionality. People are discovering what can be done with them. […]
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Our display case represents years of growth for Claris, FileMaker, and us here at DB Services. Check the bottom shelf for our most recent addition, the rare FileMaker 4 box from 1988!
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Do you need to work with online APIs and find yourself wishing there was an easy way to accomplish it? Well, there actually is. In fact, in much of technology, there's something or someone somewhere which has likely already solved the problem.
In the case of using REST (Representational state transfer) to interact with service APIs within FileMaker, it's nice to have a single tool which will handle most of the heavy work for you. When native JSON was added to FileMaker, the last piece to the pu
Almost every single solution I develop requires a method for dealing with text in fields that is purposely or accidentally formatted in browse mode. For better or worse, FileMaker allows users to change text formatting in browse mode via the Format menu. FileMaker also doesn't automatically remove formatting that's been pasted or drug from another application like a web browser. This leads to all kinds of issues with displaying field text on multiple layouts as well as output. This article will
Il faut s’y habituer, avec les nouveaux cycles courts des sorties de FileMaker, les nouveautés importantes ne sont plus forcément à date fixe avec un nouveau numéro de version. Il ne suffit donc plus, pour qui s’intéresse à la plateforme FileMaker, de réserver un peu de temps au mois de mai pour s’enquérir des nouveautés […]
Cet article FileMaker Server sur Linux : la révolution fmcloud.fm 2.0 est apparu en premier sur 1-more-thing.
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Demo file: backup-simplified.zip Like many developers I go back and forth between developing locally and in a hosted environment, and many years ago, I posted a couple articles featuring a simple backup script to create on-the-fly backups when working on local files. Recently a colleague pointed out that this backup routine, which I last wrote… Continue reading A Simpler Backup Script View the full article
Rapidly create powerful workplace #innovation custom apps across mobile, desktop, and web using #FileMaker Server 19.1's new enhanced server performance and Linux version. https://dbservices.com/blog/claris-filemaker-server-19-1-overview
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The official release of #FileMaker Server for #Linux is here! Learn the benefits of this new version of #server and check out our video on how to install it. https://dbservices.com/blog/filemaker-server-for-linux
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Over the years I've spent a lot of time working on a wide variety of themes for FileMaker Pro. Many of those themes involve taking advantage of every possible display mechanism which FileMaker portals offer.
When getting started with creating solutions in FileMaker Pro you don't always know what you can take advantage of. When it comes to portals there are a variety of settings and theme aspects which allow you to create some really creative looks. In this video I strive to show you all those h
Claris’s first of many frequent releases of the FileMaker platform is here as Claris focuses on being agile and low-code moving forward, with new features being released more frequently. In this article we will focus on FileMaker Pro 19.1 and discuss some of our favorite new features, including 9 new add-ons and the new layout design experience preview. https://dbservices.com/blog/claris-filemaker-19-1-overview
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In Part 2 of All that we Know on Add-ons (part 1 is here), we talked about how to create add-ons that include a simple child relationship. The sole purpose of that add-on was to add a child table and have it automatically relate to the context of the layout in which we drop the […]
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Here's an interesting dilemma. How do you track when specific fields are modified and adjust your JSON object so it only includes the data which was modified? Or, how about knowing when a user has modified specific fields, then having the user interface direct them down a different path than if they had modified others?
In both situations, you simply need to know when a field was modified. Using the Get ( RecordModificationCount ) function we can know THAT a given record was modified and using
We’re continuing our discussion of the new FileMaker 19 add-ons. Claris has released a great video on these add-ons, but, in this series of posts, we’re taking a deep dive into how the add-ons work. In this post we look at the FileMaker add-on events. Each FileMaker add-on comes with one or more events. A […]
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We’re happy to announce our first post-release update for CloudContainer – the best way to store FileMaker data in S3. With this update we’ve improved thumbnail generation for PDFs and general thumbnail caching and performance for all other thumbnail-compatible file types. CloudContainer will now generate and store optimized thumbnails for supported file types. This means …
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Jeremy Brown of Geist Interactive will get you started down the right path to explore JavaScript in the FileMaker context. Jeremy is convinced that any FileMaker developer can learn JavaScript, so if you give it some time, you’ll produce great things. Jeremy will introduce you to some JS concepts you need to know (though you …
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We’re continuing our discussion of the new FileMaker 19 add-ons. Claris has released a great video on these add-ons, but, in this series of posts, we’re taking a deep dive into how the add-ons work. In this post we look at how to use the FileMaker add-on refresh feature. The Point of the Add-ons In […]
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We’re continuing our discussion of the new FileMaker 19 add-ons. Claris has released a great video on these add-ons, but, in this series of posts, we’re taking a deep dive into how the add-ons work. In this post we will examine the FileMaker add-on refetch process. Many of the add-ons are sort of ‘dashboard’ add-ons. […]
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