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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.
The post Announcing WidgetStudio – FileMaker WebViewer Widgets appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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Creating User Specific Reports Using FileMaker Pro Privilege Sets
If you’ve ever wanted to generate specific reports for different groups of users, but are intimidated by FileMaker’s, somewhat complicated security schema, this PDF shows you an alternative methodology that is very simple and easy to implement, using FileMaker Pro privilege sets.
Recently a client, a large bail bond company, wanted to be able to add reports easily, that could only be viewed by specific employees, and without h
Well, that’s what happens when you post things to the wrong blog! =)
Internally we try to publish the most effusive comments form the last week’s support cases every Friday–”fan mail friday”–just to let everyone know what their teammates have been up to.
We *usually* post this privately: sorry for the interruption. “Happy Friday” everyone.
- John
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Previously in this blog I have discussed the new ExecuteSQL functionality in FileMaker12 and how useful I find this. I would like to share with you one example of how I have used this. I have a client who has a sales system which has a report that shows the position of Accounts for all...
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The developers at IT Solutions just completed a great FileMaker Go project for the Center for Disabilities Studies at the University of Delaware.
The solution facilitates in-person evaluations of 100 public schools across the state and replaces a paper system that delayed feedback and analysis of this important information.
I can’t express how much FileMaker Go and the app developed by IT Solutions has positively impacted our project. We’re now able to complete evaluations in less time, an
Beautiful screen shot sent to us by Don Blaylock of Noble Casings…
…Don says:
I appreciate all your help. The syncing is working awesome! GoZync was central to the success of this and future products!!!
Glad to hear it Don; and thanks for the sexy screen shot: love the dimmed “1″ and “2″.
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Cool and provocative video by Todd Geist showing how he incorporates unit testing into a new project: Unit Testing in FileMaker. Nice stuff.
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HierarchyLite - FileMaker Pro® 12 Tips and Tricks Demo of a Simplified Approach to Hierarchal Portals!
Another FREE FileMaker Pro 12 Tips and Tricks Demo file showing an even more simplified approach to hierarchal portals by Doug West, Product/Project manager of Excelisys. Doug has now made this advanced technique, originally developed by our own Andy Persons, even easier! “HierarchyLite” is an EXcellent FREE FileMaker Pro 12 Tips and Tricks demo file which outlines how to create those cool h
Linear Blue are proud to announce the merger of the SyncDeK & fmDataGuard product suite to our expanding product range. As of April 1, Linear Blue welcomes the WorldSync product suite and its former CEO to join our excellent development team. As one of the foremost Platinum members of the FileMaker Business Alliance, we are...
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Disclaimer: This article contains speculative and experimental techniques that are in the proof-of-concept stage. Use at your own risk and test thoroughly. Earlier this month I had the honor and the privilege to do a presentation on the topic of Radical Separation at the PauseOnError un-conference in Portland, Oregon, which included a demo file resembling this [...]
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We’ve been syncing FileMaker Go solutions since June of 2011 and it now seems like a good time to reflect on what we’ve learned helping folks make mobile apps as well getting the apps they already have debugged, sped up, and syncing.
This article will talk about some of the things we think are most important–and maybe counter intuitive–when planning a distributed app.
Because that’s the big shift for most of us: we’ve been making networked apps, and now that we’re mobile we’re makin
From Excelisys by Doug West, Product/Project Manager, a Free FileMaker Pro 12 Tip and Trick demo to retrieve City, State, Country with just a Zip code using a web service called Ziptastic.
Basic demonstration of accessing a web service called “Ziptastic” from within FileMaker Pro 12 to retrieve City, State, Country with a Zip using the insert from URL script step introduced in FileMaker Pro 12 (no plug-ins!). The web service provides the corresponding city, state, and country for a given ZIP C
Just got this wild screen shot from Guglielmo Imbimbo. Definitely went to town on the calendar layout: well done!
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I’ve had some small pre-FileMaker experience with SQL and had it in my head that subqueries work in the FROM clause. They do in MySQL etc, so I was frustrated when I couldn’t get that to work in FileMaker’s SQL as it’s really needed in some cases.
In a current project we have a case where there is a relationship from Contacts to Loans and we wanted to see the Total Loan Amount from the Contact Context. However, they can be associated with that Loan as multiple roles, so we only want to have
Had a chance to catch up with Angelo Luchi at Pause On Error and was very impressed with what he has planned for Foxtail Labs. “Labs” is a suite of hosted APIs that let FileMaker developers employ techniques that previously required plugins. The first lab involves using URLs to generate bar codes: vey useful for apps on FileMaker Go where plugins won’t run, but also makes sense on Pro for folks who don’t want to install or update plugins.
This was part of a big theme at Pause: leveraging File
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<p></p></a><br />Sometimes as FileMaker developers we have to give back to the kids. Let me give you an example: </p>
<p>My daughter went through a phase where everything "spy" related was very cool. For her 9th birthday party, I dressed up as a CIA agent (suit, sunglasses, earbud com). So what mor
If you’re using SQL in your FM12 work, you’re in luck. Jason has released a new version of SQLexplorer that writes queries which survive field renaming.
It will also apply this abstraction to queries you simply type in there (vs ones you build with the wizard). Big step forward.
Still free and unlocked, the new version is here.
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Psyched that GoMaps is featured front and center on the FileMaker home page and in FileMaker’s iOS Showcase:
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The public-facing website SeedCode created for Blueprint Capitol was recently featured on UrbnLivn as a way for savvy Seattle home buyers to find new construction projects before they’re listed on the MLS.
The site uses FileMaker Pro and PHP to publish new projects, renderings, and photos from Blueprint’s ERP system to a slick, searchable public site.
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Has this ever happened to you? You have a number of identically named fields in two different tables… …but when you copy one of those fields from a layout based on the first table… … and paste it onto a layout based on the second one… …the result is not what you might have wished [...]
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 21, 2013 – FileMaker, Inc. today announced the FileMaker iOS Demo Solutions webpage, where businesses will find free downloadable demos that highlight custom iPad and iPhone solutions created using the FileMaker Platform. The sample solutions reflect a wide range of real-world iOS business uses and have been created by leading independent FileMaker developers.
The demos, which are limited in functionality or time, include solutions for event management, point of
