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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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Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 6/6/18 – 360Deploy 2

Joe Martin from 360Works demos their new product, 360Deploy 2. He shows how you can use 360Deploy 2 to automate deployment of your development files to your production servers with the click of a button. His demo also includes how to set up the 360Deploy 2. 360Deploy 2 can be purchased from 360Works. The post Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 6/6/18 – 360Deploy 2 appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Android, Web. View the full article

Smef

July 8, 2018

Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 5/2/18 – Web Scraping and Web Viewer Performance Issues

John Greene of United Acceptance Inc. presents on considerations regarding web scraping from FileMaker Web Viewer. Specifically, he addresses what happens when you loop through many hundreds or thousands of records and how to mitigate the risk of overwhelming the executing systems resources. The post Atlanta FileMaker Developers Group 5/2/18 – Web Scraping and Web Viewer Performance Issues appeared first on Blue Feather - FileMaker Developer, Android, Web. View the full article

Smef

July 8, 2018

Ultimate FileMaker Debugging

Every craftsman should know how to use his or her set of tools effectively. When you know all the various uses and features of a given tool you then become more efficient at your trade. In FileMaker Pro Advanced, now available to pretty much everyone in version 17, there's one tool which helps you both understand what's happening and figure out what's not happening. The Script Debugger is an absolutely essential tool. Creating a well functioning script is a lot like Michelangelo creating David

FileMaker Magazine

July 3, 2018

Common Questions: FileMaker Default Fields

The new FileMaker default fields feature in the latest release of the platform makes our development that much easier. Let's consider their effective use. The post Common Questions: FileMaker Default Fields appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article

Todd Geist

July 2, 2018

Client Side Virtual List

Last June at dotfmp 2018 in Berlin, we had the great honnor to welcome an esteemed Californian member of the FileMaker developer community, Kevin Frank (@FileMakerHacks) Besides being a long time friend -I remember the old times when participating in our ‘Friday Night Chat’ at 3AM CET wasn’t an issue for my young, fast-recovering body- […] Cet article Client Side Virtual List est apparu en premier sur 1-more-thing. View the full article

fabriceN

July 2, 2018

Virtual List Reporting with JSON Arrays

Acknowledgement: As always a huge thank you to Bruce Robertson, for inventing virtual list, and for many other contributions to the FM community over the years. Introduction As a follow up to my recent “Virtual List on Steroids” presentations at DIG-FM and dotFMP, today I want to take a fresh look at using JSON arrays […] View the full article

Kevin Frank

June 30, 2018

FileMaker 17

FileMaker 17 Starter Solutions

FileMaker comes with 6 Starter and 16 Sample templates that assist in starting a new application and allow you to customize it to your business needs. In this article we provide an overview of the starter solutions and how they can assist you in your innovation! https://dbservices.com/blog/filemaker-17-starter-solutions dbservices.com

dbservices in FileMaker 17

June 28, 2018

Don’t Mess with FileMaker DevCon: A First-timer’s Guide

For folks who are experiencing FileMaker DevCon for the first time, we provide a guide to the entire conference so that you know how to take advantage of all that the conference has to offer. The post Don’t Mess with FileMaker DevCon: A First-timer’s Guide appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article

Todd Geist

June 27, 2018

Survival Guide (6 of 7): Find, Hire & Work with a Software Developer, Successfully!

The Discovery Phase: Taking the Final Leap: Define the Scope & Approve the Plan When it’s time to actually begin development the tendency is to want to just get started. A lot of time and effort has gone into getting to this point, so there can be a lot of eXcitement about finally making things happen. However, there is one last step to take before your developer puts fingers to keyboard. The “discovery” phase is where the requirements gathering is done. It is the all important planning

eXcelisys

June 26, 2018

Data Parsing

Imagine receiving a file from a client, or your boss, with improperly delimited data. It's actually quite common. Just because someone can build a database, doesn't mean they can properly structure it. A common scenario is for the first and last name fields to be in the same column but you never know what you are going to encounter so it's best to be well versed with the text functions in FileMaker. In fact, data parsing can actually assist in creating features that weren't otherwise possible! T

John Mark Osborne

June 26, 2018

Data Parsing

John Mark Osborne

June 26, 2018

FIleMaker 17: Perform Script by Name

FileMaker 17 introduces a new script step: Perform Script by Name. FileMaker Devs have been asking for this feature for a long time. It sounds like a useful idea, but we should probably try to understand how it works before we just adopt it willy-nilly, for all our script calling needs. Let's explore this idea together. The post FIleMaker 17: Perform Script by Name appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article

Todd Geist

June 25, 2018

Custom ordered portals

Every software user loves convenience. Heck, every human being loves convenience. So, why not provide it within every aspect of your user interface? The problem, however, which you may run across is figuring certain features out. FileMaker can be a very simple program or something quite complex if you're trying to do something custom like providing users with the ability to custom order their related records. The most basic sequential ordering of data comes in the form of simply providing a nu

FileMaker Magazine

June 20, 2018

Editor: The Rich-Text Editor Add-On For FileMaker

Editor is THE rich-text editing tool for FileMaker. It is familiar for users and flexible for developers. Editor provides a full-suite of text-formatting tools for writing projects such as notes and blog posts. The formatting is saved, and can be retrieved for further editing. Editor is the best way to provide formatted text for FileMaker. The post Editor: The Rich-Text Editor Add-On For FileMaker appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article

Todd Geist

June 14, 2018

dotfmp Developer Challenge

At recent dotfmp conference in Berlin (did I already mention this is the best FileMaker conference I know?), a developer challenge was orgnised. The challenge was to find the fastest way to download data from a FileMaker hosted database to a FileMaker Pro Client over the network. The table had 50K records (10 fields) of […] Cet article dotfmp Developer Challenge est apparu en premier sur 1-more-thing. View the full article

fabriceN

June 12, 2018

Anatomy of a Calculation

FileMaker calculation formulas allow you to add, subtract, multiply and compare values with operators. If you are familiar with spreadsheets like Excel or Numbers, it will help you to understand FileMaker calculations. However, FileMaker Pro calculations go much further and enable you to manipulate text, work with dates, ascertain the status of FileMaker Pro, make decisions and much more. Rather than covering any specific calculation formulas in detail, the aim of this article is to focus on pro

John Mark Osborne

June 12, 2018

Anatomy of a Calculation

John Mark Osborne

June 12, 2018

Exporting Field Data Properly

There's a lot of pretty boring stuff you need to know about when programming in FileMaker - or any other coding environment for that matter. Knowing the fundamentals of how to move information around is a critical skill. If the file format isn't correct or the receiving end of an online service just won't process your data, then it can certainly be a confusing dilemma which may take hours of learning in order to understand exactly what's going wrong. Of course, if you can simply watch a video l

FileMaker Magazine

June 11, 2018

Multiple Parameters using JSON

The ingenuity of developers has always extended beyond the limitations presented within any given environment - both physical and virtual. If you can't cross a river with your cart and horse, then you learn how to build a bridge and make it last. Such is the case with FileMaker's script parameters. There's always been only one way to pass anything into a script - as one big blob of text. There's nothing which controls what type of data is embedded within the block of text and it's up to the dev

FileMaker Magazine

June 4, 2018

Fast Summaries Re-revisited

My recent “Virtual List on Steroids” presentation at DIG-FM, and the preparation of a revised version to give at dotFMP next week, has prompted me to reconsider certain assumptions re: optimizing performance both locally, and across a LAN and/or WAN. Specifically, there are two things we’re going to look at today. First, a way to […] View the full article

Kevin Frank

May 30, 2018

Seven for Seventeen

There's a lot of FileMaker 17 content on YouTube. It's hard to tell which material is the best so you can optimize your learning. You could spend hours trying to find the right video to answer all your questions about FileMaker 17. I've gone through a lot of the videos on YouTube and here are my favorites. Hopefully this will save you a ton of time. Let me know in the comments area below if I've forgotten an incredible video. View the full article

John Mark Osborne

May 29, 2018

Seven for Seventeen

John Mark Osborne

May 29, 2018

Data Migration Tool : repensons le versioning

Notre approche en tant que développeurs d’applications sur mesure est d’apporter des solutions évolutives à nos clients. Leurs besoins progressent, et ils souhaitent adapter rapidement leur outil à la réalité de leur métier et de leur structure. Mises à part quelques petites adaptations mineures qui peuvent être “reportées” en direct dans le fichier de production, […] Cet article Data Migration Tool : repensons le versioning est apparu en premier sur 1-more-thing. View the full article

fabriceN

May 29, 2018