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Hierarchical JSON Viewer / Editor
By Andy Persons & Doug West
One of the standout new features of FileMaker Pro 16 is native support for the JSON data-interchange format. In addition to providing easy integration with a host of online services, it also provides developers with the tools to create robust hierarchical structures for use entirely within FileMaker. This hierarchical JSON viewer / editor file provides some tools for visualizing, manipulating, and leveraging JSON text.
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[ 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
Author’s note: Inevitable comparisons will be drawn between the new While function and the venerable CustomList custom function, which I wrote about at length several years ago. Preliminary testing indicates that CustomList is faster under certain circumstances and While is faster under others. In my opinion, both of them belong in your developer tool kit. […]
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GoDraw3 is a FileMaker drawing tool for users. For FileMaker developers, however, it is full of customization. A developer can do with it what she wants.
The post GoDraw3: Hack the Heck Out of It appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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Part 2: What Should You Consider When Selecting a Development Partner? What Questions Might You Ask a Potential Developer?
Figuring out how to choose a great developer can be bewildering without some insight about what to look for. In this segment of our seven-part series on choosing and working with a custom app developer, we will eXplore some tips on how to vet developer candidates.
Hiring a developer is about creating a working relationship. You want someone who gets your business
John Sindelar will be presenting The Year in Review at this year’s FileMaker Developer Conference.
“I get to see so much cool work from other developers over the course of the year, I’m thrilled for this opportunity to showcase some of it. I’ll be highlighting what our peers are finding most valuable in the newest version of FileMaker 13, and demonstrating new techniques folks can put to work in their own files.”
“As always, the goal is to find ways to make your FileMaker solutions faster, si
“Q: How do we change the future?
A: Change the story people tell themselves about the future they will live in.”
“Seen through this lens, effective leadership is made up of of just two core disciplines:
Forging plausible, inspiring stories about the future we wish for ourselves, our families, our companies or our communities,
and
Sharing those stories with people in a way that allows them both to embrace them, and to make them their own.”
From http://www.crashdev.com/2014/02/t
Over the last decade we’ve seen a huge amount of change in the way we use IT. This is everything from what we’re using mobile phones for to the games we play and everything in between. I did a presentation for a company a little over a year and a half ago which talked about...
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UPDATE 27 March: The demo file included with the article now supports Insert from URL ! Both plugin and Insert methods are available in the example file. The article has also been updated to reflect this.
When sending Email from FileMaker the most popular methods are the 'Send Mail' script step or a plugin. In this article we explore another method through using Mandrill - a free online service that is easy to setup and integrate into FileMaker. We go in depth in the article to explore wha
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<p><strong>South Bend, IN – March 20, 2014</strong> – Christo, Founder/President of Excelisys, Inc. (www.excelisys.com), a leading full service custom software development firm, announced the promotion of Doug West to VP of Product Development and Partner of the custom business application design, development, and consulting organization.</p>
<p>“Doug has shown tremendous team adhesion, his clients love him, he stays on top of the l
For those waiting to see what happens to the Node.js controlled Lego car, right now it is stuck in the pit lane waiting parts. I can say though that I have had fun linking up the motors and testing with my iPhone just a little teaser there. So what is this blog post all about....
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That’s the restroom key at DevLocal where FileMaker-Seattle meets.
Are we all just frustrated game developers? I know that’s what got me excited about computers and I wonder how much of that original impulse still motivates what we do. Is that why we’re so into the animations and effects afforded by FileMaker 13?
Is that why folks found FileMaker IWP so frustrating for so many years: because it could make nice *looking* apps but couldn’t make things that had nice behaviors? How does Web Direct
A grey fill on the active portal row. For years it has been something that simply 'was'. Well no longer. In FileMaker 13 we can finally easily eliminate this rather annoying design feature, and take back full control of portal fill colours...
Check out the full article here: http://www.teamdf.com/weetbicks/a-portal-grey-area/223/
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Here is a nice little FileMaker Pro 13 Tip</strong> – Do you keep your custom functions in FileMaker Pro 13 sorted by a “Custom Order”? If so, then I’m sure you’ve noticed that new or duplicated functions appear at the bottom of the list. Moving the new item near the top of a long list of custom functions can take more than just a few seconds. Repeat this a few times a day and it gets pretty annoying, right?&l
Just updated our Dec 5 article on popover workarounds to include notes on conditionally opening popovers and telling when a popover is open.
Here’s the article.
Enjoy!
There’s more; click above to check out the whole article.
The post Updated our article on FM13 Popover Workarounds appeared first on SeedCode.
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I’m not talking about the superhero here; I’m talking about the video and animation creator and player that millions of people came to love and use on a daily basis. In its hay-day, flash was pretty much a system requirement for accessing the web. Many of the largest websites around would use Flash to relay...
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File Name: Filemaker Slide Control
File Submitter: Manjit Behera
File Submitted: 06 Feb 2014
File Category: SolutionsFM Version: 12
This is a solution cum sample file developed in Filemaker13.
This provide you basic knowledge about the creation of Slide in Filemaker.
There are 2 different type of slide control creation examples in this file.
1. Simple Slider
2. Dynamic Slider
Click here to download this file
Source: [solutions] Filemaker Slide Control
I decided to take a break from my story having started at Linear Blue around 6 months ago, as everything is settling down and becoming easier for me. Instead I’d like to talk about where we might be going in the future in terms of the technology we use day to day. As with all...
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Got this great screen shot in from Brent Foster at fastcuts.tv where they use our calendar layout to schedule video production…
Brent’s addition of Out, Room, Users, and Resource columns to the calendar
Most developers don’t take enough advantage of how easy it is to add columns to the day view of our Pro Calendar: easy and looks great. Thanks Brent.
• Learn more about our Pro Calendar add-on: built solely with FileMaker Pro scripts and layouts.
The post Calendar Mods – Screenshot appear
Building FileMaker solutions for iOS introduces a new set of challenges for developers and requires UI controls that make it easy for users to interact. This article gives a very quick and simple technique you can use to make selecting tab controls much easier for FileMaker Go users on iPad and iPhone.
Read the full article here: http://www.teamdf.com/weetbicks/big-tabs/220/
FMI Security Webinar
On February 11th FileMaker, Inc. presented two webinars on FileMaker Platform Security. I am highly gratified that FileMaker, Inc. did this. These webinars, conducted by Consulting Systems Engineer Rosemary Tietge, clearly laid out the case for following Best Practices for securing files and their data across all elements of the FileMaker Platform.
I want to expand on a number of recommendations about enhancing FileMaker file security from those webinars. By way
Developers love that GoZync can be set to pull just a found set of records down to an iPhone or iPad. Folks use this to deliver just one user’s records–usually very specific things like “my customer visits for today” or “my active orders in this territory”.
The QuickContact example file from GoZync: modded to sync flagged records.
Less well known but almost cooler is that you can give your users the ability to “push” just a found set of records back to the office. This is great for when yo
My last post talked about JavaScpipt and how exciting it is to be programming in this language. With this post I thought I would continue and explain a little bit more why it is exciting. A few months ago at Linear Blue the web team began looking into Node.js and inperticular it’s ability to achieve...
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The animations introduced in FM13 are great, but they still don’t let us animate the transition from one layout to another. This is something we’re looking for as it’s often used in iOS apps to move from list to detail and back again.
However, using full-layout slide panels, we can animate layout transitions as long as we’re careful to get the timings right. Our unlocked example file demonstrates how to do this in your own solutions and introduces using
I’m sure we can think of some examples of where the deployment of Instant Web Publishing [iWP] for a solution has been successful and served to meet purpose for the end user. There are many examples, however, where IWP has been considered but the limitations proved too much of a stretch to be incorporated into...
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Syncing FileMaker Go
If you’re looking to learn more about syncing FileMaker Go, this Jan 7 webinar features demos of some of GoZync’s features along with a good deal of Q&A from the audience. Enjoy!
Learn more about Syncing FileMaker Go with GoZync: GoZync download, demo & screenshots.
The post Under the Hood with Sync: GoZync Webinar Recording appeared first on SeedCode.
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FileMaker 13 has been with us for a few weeks now and with it comes a new set of gotchas. I thought I would share a couple of things to watch out for when producing printed (pdf) reports (one of which was introduced in 12). In FileMaker 12 in the Layout Setup dialog we were...
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Here’s to 30 years of the Macintosh platform. Having started my journey into programming and computers back in the days of DOS and command prompts, I quickly fell in love with the beauty of the design, simplicity and power that the Macintosh gave to the user. 30 years on and I still love working on...
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