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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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Doug Alder of HomeBase Software out of Vancouver, BC posted an excellent explanation of locking down an iOS device to use an FM Go database in “Kiosk” mode, using the Accessibility options. While you’re there, check out his FileMaker Timeline (which isn’t working in Chrome for me, but in Firefox it looks great).
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Filemaker 12 has now been out for a few months and we have had a chance to use all the new features in anger. But which is the stand out improvement to FileMaker The new themes allow you to create a reasonable looking system very quickly and then at the touch of a menu item...
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New! FileMaker iOS Technology Usage Guide
With our broad experience creating advanced database solutions, we agree that the FileMaker Platform provides application developers an unprecedented opportunity for rapidly creating mobile apps that integrate seamlessly with iOS technology components to provide the best iOS experience possible.
Mark's most recent collaboration with FileMaker, the How To Guide – Best practices for using iOS Technology in custom app development with FileMaker Pro
Have you ever wanted to export a single field and maintain all the characters in that field? This article explores the possibility with XML Export and the use of a simple XSLT. But first we’ll explain the good, the bad and the ugly of some different standard ways to export TEXT out of FileMaker. Using [...]
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The question on one or more of the FileMaker forums was asked and answered. Q: How do you get the Count() of the related records in a filtered portal? A: (paraphrased) duplicate the filtered portal and make it one row in height. Place the related summary field, “Count of…”, in the single row filtered portal. [...]
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FileMaker Server 12 BackUps Frequently Asked Questions
FileMaker® Server 12 has a number of new features for creating backups of databases it hosts.
As evidenced by questions raised at the 2012 DevCon and as evidenced by a number of items posted on various FileMaker lists, there is a good deal of confusion still about how the new backup system works.
Wim Decorte and I have authored a short set of Frequently Asked Questions along with their answers about this topic. You can downloa
tl;dr: Plug-in developers can now update their plug-ins to run in 64 bit mode. There’s an undocumented change to how the Web Publishing Engine runs that affects where to install plug-ins to be run by CWP. A few weeks ago FMI released the FMS 12 v2 update, adding support for 64 bit plugins used by [...]
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tl;dr: Plug-in developers can now update their plug-ins to run in 64 bit mode. There’s an undocumented change to how the Web Publishing Engine runs that affects where to install plug-ins to be run by CWP.
A few weeks ago FMI released the FMS 12 v2 update, adding support for 64 bit plugins used by CWP solutions. FMI also released a new software developer’s kit (SDK) for plug-in developers. Until this SDK, there was no way for plug-in devs to update their plug-ins to run in 64 bit mode. So some F
tl;dr: Plug-in developers can now update their plug-ins to run in 64 bit mode.
There’s an undocumented change to how the Web Publishing Engine runs that affects where to install plug-ins to be run by CWP.
A few weeks ago FMI released the FMS 12 v2 update, adding support for 64 bit plugins used by CWP solutions. FMI also released a new software developer’s kit (SDK) for plug-in developers. Until this SDK, there was no way for plug-in devs to update their plug-ins to run in 64 bit mode. So some
In July and August we explored several esoteric value list techniques. This time around, and over the next few postings, we’re going to step back from the cutting edge, identify some common value list challenges, and propose some solutions to those challenges. A few thoughts before we begin: Some of the material in this series [...]
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Upcoming Events
Here are some happenings in September and October:
TOMORROW- Friday, September 7th, FM Academy Free Webinar
Join us from 1pm - 2pm (CST) for DEVCON 2012 RECAP: WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED.
Register here.
Did you make it to Miami this July for FileMaker’s DevCon? Even if you did, you could not have been everywhere at once! Join Anvil Dataworks and the rest of the FM Academy crew as we provide a recap of key sessions and happenings behind the scenes.
We're seeking help from you, the FileMaker community, to bring our FileMaker Go solution, GoBillit, to market. You can support us on Indiegogo at http://www.indiegogo.com/gobillit! Every contribution is greatly appreciated.
We've also created a group on LinkedIn for FileMaker Go developers to come together, learn from each other, and work towards better mobile solutions. Check it out at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Filemaker-Go-12-4575157?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr. Feel free to join!
Recently a question came up on one of the lists asking about intermediate-to-advanced FileMaker Blogs. Here are some I’m aware of, and I’m sure I’ve missed some good ones, so I apologize in advance for any inadvertent omissions. Cimbura – http://cimbura.com/tech/blog DB Services – http://www.dbservices.com/articles FileMaker ’n’ the Web: Lessons Learned – http://blog.jsfmp.com FileMaker Weetbicks [...]
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Reminded today that deciding to do one thing is deciding not to do something else–that the root of the word “decide” is similar to that for suicide.
As a small business, the opportunity costs for even your best decisions are huge: the best gig you’ve got is another customer you didn’t meet.
Proud of our latest decisions, and hope I’m up to owning the consequences.
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You may have noticed a lack of article postings over the last couple of months, and fewer articles overall this year. Please don't panic for it has not been through laziness or lack of content. Instead, I have been somewhat pre-occupied with other things that I would like to share with you now.
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Editor’s note: Today it’s my pleasure to present a guest article written by Beverly Voth. Like many other developers, I have enjoyed and benefitted from her ongoing contributions to the FileMaker community. I do a lot of text manipulation for EDI (Electronic data interchange – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_data_interchange) and plain text exports with fixed-width field data. Some [...]
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Portals have come a long way in Filemaker Go. With just a bit of thought though, we can make them even better.
You may have noticed that if you try and scroll beyond the content in iOS that you reveal a cross hatch pattern that appears to be in the background.
Website scrolling in iOS
Filemaker Go even mimics this behavior in some circumstances. If you resize a layout to be smaller than the screen by pinching, or if you scroll past the content in list view you will notice this same
A screen shot from some custom work we’re doing: construction inspections using GoZync for FileMaker Go with some custom map work in the webviewer.
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As promised last time, today we’re going to look at a technique from Dr. Osamu Noda, which uses FM 12′s ExecuteSQL to create what appears to be a value list when in fact there are no value lists defined at all. This technique, like some of the others we’ve seen recently, is decidedly esoteric, but [...]
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FileMaker DevCon: My Rash is Gone...
I hope you had a great time at DevCon. I did and came home with a rash to prove it.
If you're anything like me, you've returned from DevCon and gotten back to your daily grind. You're doing what you do and all the high-mindedness of DevCon is gone - just like my rash.
Most of us leave DevCon with a list of things we want to try, practices we want to implement, routine processes we want to improve. Once we return home, we spend a day or two playing '
Hey guys!
Thanks for your support with GoBillit. We're happy to see some of you really like the app, which we created from the ground up in FileMaker Pro. We encourage more of you to download the free 30-day demo. No payment info needed, just your name and email address to send you the download link! We know you'll love the app, and if you have friends who work as on-the-go professionals be sure to let them know about GoBillit.
Any and all feedback will be greatly appreciated. Fe
One of the things I love about FileMaker is how many different ways there are to skin the proverbial cat. Following our recent look at “Magic Value Lists“, I received thought-provoking FileMaker 12 demos from John Ahn and Dr. Osamu Noda. I’m going to save Dr. Noda’s files for next time, but today we have [...]
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