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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
Forums are a great way to get technical advice for FileMaker but for some reason, many people don't think they have to be nice in the electronic world. I was raised to say "please" and "thank you" and that has translated over to the internet for me. But, other folks think the anonymity of cyberspace is an excuse to be a jerk. Some posters are outright offensive and others will just leave snide responses like, "that wasn't much help". News flash! People on the internet are real and you should be
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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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
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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...the Teacher Will Appear : Path to Certification
Passing the FileMaker certification test...
Years ago, on April Fool's day, one of my teacher's gave us the world's hardest test. The questions covered a wide range of 'topics':
Sociology: Estimate the sociological problems, which might accompany the end of the world. Construct an experiment to test your theory.
Physics: Define the universe and give three examples.
Medicine: You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauz
So far in this series we’ve been looking at exporting data to Excel from a single table (Contacts). Today we’re going to extend the technique to encompass a second, related table, Donations, and without too much trouble we can leverage existing work from earlier entries in this series (part 1, part 1.1 and part 2). [...]
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Awww, scratch that last post, as yet another thing has gone wrong with this horrific ‘easy’billing database. Now the invoice numbers aren’t updating – we had this problem before but the solution was ?? – it just fixed itself magically, as far was we could tell. I strongly dislike old databases. My advice to all: [...]
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Path to Certification : When the Student is Ready...
As part of my recent on-boarding process at Skeleton Key, I immediately began training for FileMaker certification. Fast forward 2 months, I am FileMaker Certified in 10 and 11.
My training consisted of four main interactive methods:
Absorbing the FileMaker Training Series book
Participating in FileMaker-specific webinars
Receiving one-on-one FileMaker Coaching
Researching 'FileMaker' to broaden my scope on topic details n
This is the third article in our series of tips and hints for FileMaker. This time we are focusing on scripts - from their creation, to editing and debugging. Take it as it is - this is just an assortment of our favorite time-savers, shortcuts, tips, hints, tricks, tools of the trade and more…
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Designing Faster iOS Database Apps - How To Guide Published for FileMaker Developer Community Members
Mark's most recent collaboration with FileMaker, the How To Guide – Designing Faster iOS Database Apps – describes best practices for designing FileMaker Pro database applications for optimal performance on iPhone and iPad. FileMaker Pro developers will learn to design high-performance applications by following best practices in key areas including Layout Design, Database Design and Wide A
FM Academy Free Webinar Today - Look Before You Leap - Pick the Right Deployment Model for Your FileMaker Go Application
Join us for a Free Webinar:
Date: TODAY! Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (CST) / 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (EST) / 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (PST)
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David Knight of Angel City Data has put out a great webinar for FileMaker on performance tuning your FileMaker Go solutions.
Needless to say, for “the ultimate performance” he endorses using the solution locally and syncing to the server using GoZync. (Thanks David!)
David also has a nice shout out to Jason Young’s 2011 DevCon session on making FileMaker Server your super user.
Watch the webinar.
Learn more about GoZync.
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[Note: To avoid a huge amount of redundant repetition, this article assumes that you are familiar with part 1 and part 1.1 in this series.] Today we’re going to take a look at streamlining the approach introduced in part 1 by reducing clutter on the Relationships Graph, going from this… …to this, with no loss [...]
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Bruce Robertson emailed me off list with an improved version of my demo from part 1, excel exports, part 1.1, which I am sharing with his permission. The improvements are… a) live preview fields showing the data to be exported. an “Eval Error Tester” script to make sure the output code in the alias [...]
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Many end users appreciate FileMaker’s ability to export a found set of records in Excel format — it’s fast, straight-forward and empowering. One request that I have received from clients multiple times over the years is: make the exported field names in the top row of the spreadsheet “human-friendly”… For example, instead of this: …perhaps they [...]
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Those of you who attended DevCon 2011 in San Diego may recall meeting Andries Heylen of BH&A, who cheerfully answered questions in the FileMaker Genius Bar. Well, from the sow’s ear demo I posted in part 1, Andries has woven a silk purse (google-route-mapping-part-2), which I am sharing with his permission, and which uses Google [...]
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External Server Authentication and [Full Access] Privilegesâ¦
Life (or FileMaker) May Not Be What At First It Seems
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Steven H. Blackwell
Someone recently advised me about a discussion on a FileMaker List that focused on the supposed ability of a user with an Account authenticated by External Server Authentication and attached to the [Full Access] Privilege Set to make changes in a hosted fileâs security schema. (Technically this is a Group, not an Acco
Script triggers are a great feature in FileMaker that allow you to initiate a script when certain actions occur such as committing a record or leaving a layout. Not only do they run when user initiated, they can also be script initiated by script steps. This can sometimes produce unexpected results and so you may wish for triggers to be disabled. This article presents a very simple and elegant method of suppressing script triggers from firing when initiated by other scripts…
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Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Layout Sizing
This is the second blog post in a series about Creating a Fundamental Layout for use in FileMaker Go. The goal of this series is to offer practical advice and specific instructions for creating FileMaker Go layouts that look and act the way you, and your users, expect.
Today we'll be covering Layout Sizing.
Sizing a FileMaker Go layout is based on the idea of being able to Scroll Lock your layout. I cover the explanation and i
This tutorial video describes how to run credit card transactions from FileMaker Go using the 360Works Plastic plugin. The transcript is attached below, and the video can be watched on YouTube at
http://www.youtube.c...bed/qrOucBq6HHg.
Hi, I’m Sarah Mulligan from 360Works, and this video is going to demonstrate how to run credit cards from FileMaker Go. We’ll be using a combination of FileMaker Server, FileMaker Go, and a plugin called
Plastic. Plastic is a 360Works product that a
The other day someone asked a question on the FMP Experts list about plotting a driving route in Google Maps using FileMaker data. Mark Rubinstein posted a simple solution, and my reactions were, in this order: “No way, it can’t possibly be this easy; better build a demo (google-route-mapping) to find out; wow, it really [...]
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This tutorial video describes an example of using
RemoteScripter to create a PDF in Instant Web Publishing. The video can be viewed on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiNWKGSvI9o.
The transcript of the video is provided below.
Hi, my name is Sarah Mulligan from 360Works and I'm here today to discuss the scripts and functions behind the 360Works RemoteScripter plug-in. Today we'll be looking at an example where we create a PDF in Instant Web Publishing and save it
In this second article in our series of tips and hints we focus on the relationship graph. Take it as it is - this is just an assortment of our favorite time-savers, shortcuts, tips, hints, tricks, tools of the trade and more…
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geist interactive has just released a new add on for FileMaker Go that let’s you draw on photos. The unlocked file comes in Free or Pro versions and is easy to integrate into your own files.
We’ve been playing with this for a bit and it is awesome!
A few highlights:
* Draw right on your FileMaker Go Screens
* Store the drawing data in your database
* Drawing works offline
* Save drawings as PDFs – attach to emails
* Draw on images, photos, and diagrams, even photos you too with the
Watch HOnza Koudelka’s expert presentation on Marvelous Optimisation #4 at PauseOnError [x] London 2011. In this session you’ll learn how to boost performance for FileMaker solutions. Read all about his Marvelous Optimisation formula here. Further reading.
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Last September I wrote an article about a custom function that I optimized to evaluate hundreds times faster. At the end of the article, I challenged my readers and myself by claiming that the already optimized custom function can be optimized even further. Do you remember?
Later on I actually really optimized it again, and talked about this optimization during my session at Pause On Error [x] London 2011. Now you can watch the video of this part of my session below:
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Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout - Zoom Lock
Welcome to the third post in my blog series about Creating a Fundamental FileMaker Go Layout. This entry will cover Locking the Zoom Level on Filemaker Go Layouts.
The previous posts in the series covered:
Understanding scroll lock
Basic Go Layout Sizing
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