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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.
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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.
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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
Lui de la Parra from Mute Symphony will show how to use Node Red and the FileMaker Data API to connect with IOT devices and build scalable APIs. Learn how to use Node’s event driven architecture alongside FileMaker’s robust and reliable UI capabilities to solve complex business problems. Node Red allows developer’s to take advantage of visual and flow based programming techniques.
https://github.com/Luidog/node-red-contrib-filemaker Lui will also preview a new developer tool for managing Fi
Lui de la Parra from Mute Symphony will show how to use Node Red and the FileMaker Data API to connect with IOT devices and build scalable APIs. Learn how to use Node’s event driven architecture alongside FileMaker’s robust and reliable UI capabilities to solve complex business problems. Node Red allows developer’s to take advantage …
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Makah Encarnaco from Soliant will present on how FileMaker developers can give back to the community and the new join::table organization. She’ll also be presenting on custom functions for dynamically creating JSON from related child records.
The post Giving Back to the Community – Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group – 5/1/19 appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Android, Web.
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Joe Martin from 360Works will be presenting – Machine Learning in FileMaker: Using AWS Rekognition for Object Detection and Text Extraction from Images
Building off of Jesse Barnum’s AWS FileMaker scripts, Joe will show how to interact with the AWS Rekognition API, allowing for object and scene detection in an image, as well as extracting text from an image. If there’s time, he’ll also go into facial recognition and celebrity detection.
Download sample file: http://s3-external-1.amazona
Jeremy Brown from Geist Interactive demonstrates their product, WidgetStudio.
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.
There is no need to learn any other programming language to use WidgetStudio. If you can design a FileMaker Layout, you can use WidgetStudio’s built in point and c
Medical Sales College Alleviates Administrative Complications with Custom Software Solution for New Student Recruitment
Bespoke FileMaker Pro Solution Injects New Life into Admissions & Speeds Job Placement Process at Med Device Sales School
As a post-secondary institution, Medical Sales College is committed to recruiting, enrolling, educating and placing students. For years, Medical Sales College used multiple FileMaker Pro databases for student record management and placement. But t
Hi all,
To accompany the release of Elemental I've written an article at FileMaker Weetbicks all about it, it's features, and what extra goodies you might find lurking in the solution.
You can check out the article here:
https://www.teamdf.com/blogs/elemental-has-landed/
And you can download Elemental here:
https://www.elemental-fm.com
Thank you .
Daniel
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
You may be familiar with the routine when you have multiple duplicate records in your database. You end up having to reference multiple sources. Which can be a real pain. Ultimately, you end up needing to decide which record is the master and then merging as much of the data as possible from any of the duplicates.
This is a common scenario with any multi-user database system. Where, anytime you have more than one person working on the same data, you can inevitably end up with duplicates.
There
You may be familiar with the routine when you have multiple duplicate records in your database. You end up having to reference multiple sources. Which can be a real pain. Ultimately, you end up needing to decide which record is the master and then merging as much of the data as possible from any of the duplicates.
This is a common scenario with any multi-user database system. Where, anytime you have more than one person working on the same data, you can inevitably end up with duplicates.
There
Using SurveyMonkey’s API you can automatically collect survey responses and data directly into your FileMaker application, allowing you to link your surveys to your FileMaker data.
Check out our in-depth article and tutorial video: https://dbservices.com/articles/filemaker-surveymonkey-integration/
Includes a free sample file.
dbservices.com
It took a while to scour the internet but I finally came up with my favorite videos and articles. I personally read each of these blog articles and watched every one of these videos. I've focused on choosing resources that use specific examples, rather than vague general discussions. I wanted to show off authors who took the discussion of the new FileMaker 18 to the next level and applied them in real-life scenarios. However, I will start off with some web sites that contain good overviews of th
It took a while to scour the internet but I finally came up with my favorite videos and articles. I personally read each of these blog articles and watched every one of these videos. I've focused on choosing resources that use specific examples, rather than vague general discussions. I wanted to show off authors who took the discussion of the new FileMaker 18 to the next level and applied them in real-life scenarios. However, I will start off with some web sites that contain good overviews of th
I am continuing my study of the new FileMaker 18 functions. We see this new release as a continuation of the dramatic change in FileMaker as a platform. Todd calls this new release the “End of the Beginning”. Therefore, it’s important to take a look at what’s new and see how game-changing each feature is. […]
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It's just like when you see someone who is well-dressed, clean and sharp looking, your FileMaker user interface is no different. You're more impressed by that sharp, clean look. In this regard, not having something on your user interface is quite possibly one of the very things which makes your user interface look that much cleaner.
Portals and list views, pretty much anything which repeats itself many times, can be very overwhelming when there are a lot of options. Quite simply, if there are t
It's just like when you see someone who is well-dressed, clean and sharp looking, your FileMaker user interface is no different. You're more impressed by that sharp, clean look. In this regard, not having something on your user interface is quite possibly one of the very things which makes your user interface look that much cleaner.
Portals and list views, pretty much anything which repeats itself many times, can be very overwhelming when there are a lot of options. Quite simply, if there are t
In this post Jeremy explores the new FileMaker write data to file set of script steps. He recorded himself exploring the workflow for the first time. It's a fun, weird video in which he learns a lot.
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Today we’re going to dig a little deeper into the new-in-18 While function, and to avoid repetition, will assume readers are familiar with last month’s article on SetRecursion and While. We’ll examine some new examples ranging from basic to advanced, talk about the circumstances under which While can use variables previously declared via Let, and […]
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FileMaker DevCon 2019 is fast approaching. There’s less than three months left, and we at Geist Interactive are busy, getting ready for the conference. Todd Geist and myself–Jeremy Brown–will attend (this will be our 20th and 8th time respectively) and spread the good word about JavaScript and the Workplace Innovation platform. We will be busy […]
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FileMaker Pro 18 Advanced brings welcome security changes that continue its transition into a first class web platform. Read on to learn about what's new.
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FileMaker 18 is here. It's the "End of the Beginning" for the leading Workplace Innovation Platform. Read Todd's thoughts about this newest version.
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