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  • Steven H. Blackwell

    Hacking Your Own FileMaker Platform Solutions

    By Steven H. Blackwell

    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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  • Josh Ormond

    A Conversation About '2 Factor Authentication'

    By Josh Ormond

    [ 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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Google Chrome | FileMaker Go | iOS

<p><a href="/blog/leveraging-google-chrome-for-ios-with-filemaker-go"><br /><h1>Leveraging Google Chrome for iOS with FileMaker Go</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p>Ever so often, I'll run across a tip that I think would be a great way to extend FileMaker Go outside of its sandbox. Recently, it was a tip from Google about <a href ="https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/ios-links" target="_blank">opening links in Chrome from
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Running Total in Reverse

I got a request the other day to show a running balance in reverse order in a portal, in other words, from oldest at the bottom to newest at the top. Surprisingly, FileMaker does not provide an obvious way to accomplish this. [Demo file: running total in reverse] Running balances, a.k.a. “running totals” are summary [...] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=8207" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Beautiful FileMaker Maps

Brad Cranston of Cranston IT sent us this gorgeous screen shot of his integration of ProMaps into SeedCode Complete. (Love the filters) He got the (free) icons from http://mapicons.nicolasmollet.com and explains the legend like this: When showing projects and events at the same time, it can be a little bit confusing because they do overlap to some extent, so you can filter either way.  Also, there are three tables involved here because the phone icon is based off the incoming calls table. 
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Excelisys’ eX-BizTracker 4 Goes Public Beta!

The eX-BizTracker 4 Goes Public Beta! The eX-BizTracker 4 is now out for public beta testing, ready for you to put it through its paces! If you were one of the 100,000 plus people who downloaded eX-BizTracker v3.0, you might recall that FileMaker® Pro template or jump-start solution’s attractive GUI and feature set. You might also remember fondly the advantage it gave your company, or if you were a consultant looking for a quick way to get something for your clients, how easy it was to custom
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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Example File | Lemonade Stand | Forecasts | FileMaker

<p><a href="/blog/lemonade-stand-part-5-example-file"><br /><h1>LEMONADE STAND, PART 5: EXAMPLE FILE</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/Blog/lemondadestandPt5.jpg" align="right"><img width="150" height="158" src="" /><br /></a></p> <p>In the previous four parts of our Lemonade Stand series, we shared techniques for charting <a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/b
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Skeleton Key

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Weekly Sales Comparison Charts

If you are responsible for helping business decision makers analyze data, you are probably familiar with questions like: Are we on track to meet or exceed last years sales totals? How is our sales team doing now, compared to this time a year or two ago? Today’s demo file, weekly sales comparison charts, can help [...] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=8145" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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PauseOnError rocks Berlin!

I’d have difficulty imagining a conference that could have gone much better. Egbert Friedrich was a super host, very kind, gracious and made sure we were all welcome in Berlin. Talks were exactly what you’d have hoped to see. Almost all were a bit chaotic and loads of audience participation. Everyone wants to do this again. Hotel was in a super location right on the bank of the River Spree, in the former East Berlin. There are several sections of the wall right by the patio area along the river
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FMRPC | FileMaker Remote Procedure Call | YouTube

<p><a href="/blog/FM-Academy-Webinar-Recap-Video-FMRPC-Let-the-Server-Do-the-Work"><br /><h1>FM Academy Webinar Recap &amp; Video - FMRPC: Let the Server Do the Work</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/FMRPC.png" align="right"><img width="150" height="42" src="" /><br /></a></p> <p>Thank you for joining us on June 6th for the FMRPC: Let the Server Do the Work w
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Robotics Seattle

Great FileMaker User Group meeting last night punctuated by Xandon Frogget’s self-guided-wheelchair demo. Amazing work / evil-genius parenting (see the collision-avoidance stroller demo). http://daddiorobotics.com/ Toddler-Assisted Steering   <a href="http://seedcodenext.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/robotics-seattle/" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Radical Separation, part 4

Disclaimer: This article contains speculative and experimental techniques that are in the proof-of-concept stage. Use at your own risk and test thoroughly. FYI: In March at the Portland PauseOnError un-conference, Matt Navarre and I had a freewheeling Separation Model discussion, a podcast of which has just been posted as episode 85 at FileMaker Talk. Welcome [...] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=8066" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FMRPC (FileMaker Remote Procedure Recall) Released Today - let the server do the work

let the server do the work FMRPC: What does it do? FMRPC stands for FileMaker Remote Procedure Call. FMRPC allows a FileMaker user to run intensive operations on the FileMaker Server and on demand. This happens without the need for any plug-ins, server-side queues or server-side schedules. In addition, FMRPC expands the functionality of the FileMaker client, enabling them to things they simply can't do on their own. FMRPC is secure and simple to install. Visit SkeletonKey.com/FMRPC for do
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Assessing Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Risks to FileMaker Pro Databases

Assessing Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Risks to FileMaker® Pro Databases Hosted FileMaker Pro databases are susceptible to unauthorized access, manipulation, destruction, and other forms of compromise. Developers and server administrators need to understand how to assess threats and the risks of those risk’s occurring as various threat agents seek to exploit vulnerabilities. This process starts with an understanding of the environment where the databases operate. We h

Fast Grid Displays on a WAN

Last October I began a series on Outer Joins, which explored a number of different techniques to display summarized information in a grid, and at the time I concluded that the “fastest” method was to leverage the FileMaker relational model. And it was plenty fast, locally… and not too bad on a LAN… and technically, [...] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=7924">Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FMRPC | FileMaker Remote Procedure Call | FM Academy

<p><a href="/blog/FM-Academy-Webinar-FMRPC-Let-the-Server-Do-the-Work"><br /><h1>FM Academy Webinar - FMRPC: Let the Server Do the Work</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/FMRPC.png" align="right"><img width="150" height="42" src="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/FMRPC.png" /><br /></a></p> <p>Join us Thursday, June 6th for a free one-hour webinar at 3pm (EST) / 2
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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ProMaps: Google Maps for FileMaker Pro

We’ve simplified GoMaps to work on desktop versions of FileMaker Pro solutions and named it ProMaps. The relationship graph got dead simple so you can paste the map right on to your existing layouts. (And the map is scriptable, so once you click on a pin, you can run your own scripts from the property detail within the map.) ProMaps is completely unlocked for you to modify and extend. And if you need both GoMaps and ProMaps, you can save $100 with our Maps Bundle. Download the demo and chec
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Payment Processing on IPad

One of our client wanted us to build a solution for them to process credit cards from a FileMaker application with authorize.net and merchant account gateway. All we wanted to do is to capture the Credit Card data and send it to the iPad filemaker app and then send it to the web-service of the payment gateway. Filemaker API and Payment Gateway: Initially we made the integration using a hosted Filemaker file and PHP server; the processing worked well. Below are steps explaining the
Surya Kanta Mekap

Surya Kanta Mekap

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Radical Separation, part 3

Disclaimer: This article contains speculative and experimental techniques that are in the proof-of-concept stage. Use at your own risk and test thoroughly. Today we’re going to delve further into the concept of virtual calculations, picking up where we left off last time, and with the assumption that readers are familiar with the material in part 1 [...] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=7759">Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Reusable Scripts | Toolbox | Sharing Code | Modular FileMaker

<p><a href="/blog/developers-where-do-you-keep-your-tools"><br /><h1>Developers: Where Do You Keep Your Tools?</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/Blog/ToolBox3.jpg" align="right"><img width="345" height="300" src="http://www.skeletonkey.com/images/Blog/ToolBox3.jpg" /></a></p> <p>I think every developer should create their own toolbox of code snippets to reuse as needed
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Perfecting FileMaker Pro Recursion & Virtualization Part 2

A Wrinkle in Timeliness Pt 2 – Perfecting FileMaker Pro Recursion & Virtualization, by Andy Persons of Excelisys Perfecting FileMaker Pro Recursion & Virtualization Part 2 explores the use of recursion and virtualization (through global variables) in solving complex data interconnectivity challenges using FileMaker Pro 12 in a multi-user client-server environment. Using a specific case study of an Excelisys project/client in the medical manufacturing industry, Andy discusses and demons
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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Modding Live Files with GoZync

Once you distribute offline files to your users, how do you keep making changes, fix bugs, and re-distribute the files without breaking things or ending up with duplicate files on someone’s iPad? GoZync makes this easy, and this short video shows how. It also demonstrates that GoZync can let you recover from schema errors you might introduce when you’re defining fields. You’ll see how we capture errors (like “the field we’re trying to sync is no longer there”) and let you re-play a sync after y
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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The Beginning Of Wisdom

“What's in a name? that which we call a rose,
 By any other name would smell as sweet.” —Juliet (Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2, William Shakespeare)— “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” —Confucius— An entire series of recent studies[1] published by well-known and well renown international security analysis and information industry firms have all made, in slightly varying language, the following key points: Da

Radical Separation, part 2

Disclaimer: This article contains speculative and experimental techniques that are in the proof-of-concept stage. Use at your own risk and test thoroughly. In part 1 of this series, we defined radical separation as a separation model scenario in which the developer no longer has access to a data file once a solution had been deployed. [...] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=7682">Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Interesting quirk for unrelated field reference in field definition

One apparent limitation of using ExSQL() in the separation model is that you can’t use unrelated tables in a field definition. So you’d need to related all your tables to one another. I just discovered that you can bypass that limitation simply by wrapping your statement in a Let() and declaring a variable that includes wrapping a field in the GetFieldName() function. So the expression: Let( field = unrelated::table ; field ) returns an error. However, Let( gfn = GetFieldName ( unrelated::tab
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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