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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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Using FileMaker's Grid

Recently, while providing intermediate training at the annual FileMaker Devcon, I had an attendee approach me and ask a very simple question. "How do you turn off the grid in FileMaker?" Like all questions, it was asked within the context of innocent ignorance. This was simply because this person had not yet used, nor explored this area of FileMaker. This is totally understandable with the increasing number of options found across the increasing number of palettes within FileMaker. However, if
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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Form Letters in Browse

Empowering users of your solution to create their own form letters is life-changing. No longer do they have to contact the developer, explain their needs and go through a back-and-forth testing stage. The developer just designs a single interface that allows the user to create, save, edit and delete their own form letters. It's really not that hard to program either. You just need some global fields, a calculation and a couple of scripts for the foundation of this technique. This approach seems
John Mark Osborne

John Mark Osborne

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Form Letters in Browse

Empowering users of your solution to create their own form letters is life-changing. No longer do they have to contact the developer, explain their needs and go through a back-and-forth testing stage. The developer just designs a single interface that allows the user to create, save, edit and delete their own form letters. It's really not that hard to program either. You just need some global fields, a calculation and a couple of scripts for the foundation of this technique. This approach seems
John Mark Osborne

John Mark Osborne

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Building a Multi Lingual Application

Hi all,   Just posted a new article over at FileMaker Weetbicks all about building multi lingual applications in FileMaker, we walk through the whole process and cover some of the challenges involved and how to overcome them.  Also included is a thorough demo file.   Check it out here, thanks !
Daniel Wood

Daniel Wood

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Karbon Webinar – Getting Started

Free webinar introducing Karbon our free application framework for building ambitious custom business applications. If you are interested in using the FileMaker Workplace Innovation Platform at a high level you'll probably want to see what we have cooked up. The post Karbon Webinar – Getting Started appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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Duplicating Related Records - Server Side

The age old question commonly arises on FileMaker forums around the world. "How can I duplicate the whole record?" In other words, how can I duplicate the parent record and all related children records which make it seem like it's one whole entity. Well, at least, that's how a newer user/developer sees it. They may visually see the one record with all of its related records presented within the portal, but making the distinction that you're actually looking at 1 record plus N related records is
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Interactive Charts with Javascript and C3

In this post and video, we look at creating FileMaker Interactive Charts with the maybe the most powerful escape hatch in the professional Filemaker developer's toolkit, JavaScript! The post FileMaker Interactive Charts with Javascript and C3 appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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Using DataTables in FileMaker

Using DataTables in FileMaker is an innovative way to provide a full set of functionality with very little set up time. Here we explore how to set it up. The post Using DataTables in FileMaker appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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Using DataTables in FileMaker

Using DataTables in FileMaker is an innovative way to provide a full set of functionality with very little set up time. Here we explore how to set it up. The post Using DataTables in FileMaker appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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DevCon 2018 Training Day: A lot of us want to learn JavaScript

Training Day at DevCon 2018 finally arrived, and I was ready. After fretting over my ‘lesson plan‘ for so long, I was ready to do some FileMaker DevCon JavaScript training, for FileMaker developers. So I left the breakfast room and entered my classroom. I was hoping to get some moments of calm before we started. […] The post DevCon 2018 Training Day: A lot of us want to learn JavaScript appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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DevCon 2018 Training Day: A lot of us want to learn JavaScript

Training Day at DevCon 2018 finally arrived, and I was ready. After fretting over my ‘lesson plan‘ for so long, I was ready to do some FileMaker DevCon JavaScript training, for FileMaker developers. So I left the breakfast room and entered my classroom. I was hoping to get some moments of calm before we started. […] The post DevCon 2018 Training Day: A lot of us want to learn JavaScript appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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Custom Web App Keeps ASAP Aquatics from Drowning in Paperwork

Pond Care Company Uses FileMaker Pro with Field-Synced iPads to Deliver Photos & Service Records to Office Staff & Clientele; System Eliminates Paperwork & Improves Customer Communications ASAP Aquatics is located in Indianapolis. Lakes and ponds are lovely … when they are lovely. But not so much when frothy slicks of fluorescent algae bloom all over the surface. To fix this problem, the people of Central Indiana rely on ASAP Aquatics. Founded in 1996, ASAP Aquatics offers algae
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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DevCon 2018 Review

DevCon 2018 was held at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center win Dallas, Texas from August 6th through the 9th and it was a great event. The Gaylord Texan (GT) is a destination unto itself. It’s enormous with several acres of open ground enclosed by a dome and a combination of a convention hotel and a family destination. There were a couple other conferences going on, including, notably, QuakeCon with hundred of video game fans hauling their heft PC towers and giant monitors through t
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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DevCon 2018 Review

DevCon 2018 was held at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center win Dallas, Texas from August 6th through the 9th and it was a great event. The Gaylord Texan (GT) is a destination unto itself. It’s enormous with several acres of open ground enclosed by a dome and a combination of a convention hotel and a family destination. There were a couple other conferences going on, including, notably, QuakeCon with hundred of video game fans hauling their heft PC towers and giant monitors through t
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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Penny Newman Grain Co.

Penny Newman Grain Co. CLIENT Penny Newman Grain Co. DATE 2012 TAGS Agriculture, Consulting, Database, Design-Development, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Pro, Mobile Applications, Synchronization About Penny Newman Grain Co. Penny Newman Grain Inc. is a grain/feed supplier to the cattle and livestock industry. Challenge: Penny Newman had an idea to try and convert their dealers from paper-based reportin
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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Reusable Dialogs

Card windows will continue to impact our FileMaker solutions for years to come. Released in FileMaker 16, who would have thought that simply creating a new way to draw windows would be so empowering. We've long been able to create modal windows which force user interaction - but taking off the title bar and dimming the background window was all it took to make things much more powerful. So, what is the most common thing you can do with a card window? Well, create a reusable dialog box of course
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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DevCon Sale Extended Through Friday

DevCon was such a huge blast that we are extending our DevCon Sale through this Friday. You can get 20% off all the products in our store. The post DevCon Sale Extended Through Friday appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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DevCon Sale Extended Through Friday

DevCon was such a huge blast that we are extending our DevCon Sale through this Friday. You can get 20% off all the products in our store. The post DevCon Sale Extended Through Friday appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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FIleMaker DevCon 2018: Community || Sessions || FileMaker

FileMaker DevCon is my favorite time of the year. More than Christmas or even a vacation, I enjoy the deep dive into FileMaker for an entire week. The pool in the lavish hotel is a distant thought; I'd rather focus my time and energy on the technology and the community that makes up FileMaker. The post FIleMaker DevCon 2018: Community || Sessions || FileMaker appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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FIleMaker DevCon 2018: Community || Sessions || FileMaker

FileMaker DevCon is my favorite time of the year. More than Christmas or even a vacation, I enjoy the deep dive into FileMaker for an entire week. The pool in the lavish hotel is a distant thought; I'd rather focus my time and energy on the technology and the community that makes up FileMaker. The post FIleMaker DevCon 2018: Community || Sessions || FileMaker appeared first on Geist Interactive. View the full article
Todd Geist

Todd Geist

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Fasting

In the blogs and forums I favor, there’s a buzz over the past few years about “intermittent fasting”.  The idea is that not eating all the time is healthy. As far as physical and emotional health benefits, the pop science seems intriguing and it meets my common sense filters, so why not try it? There’s a few different versions. 16/8 is popular. That’s where you only eat in the same 8 hour window each day. Say, from 10 AM to 6 PM. That’s sounds helpful, something I would call “time-restricted ea
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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Fasting

In the blogs and forums I favor, there’s a buzz over the past few years about “intermittent fasting”.  The idea is that not eating all the time is healthy. As far as physical and emotional health benefits, the pop science seems intriguing and it meets my common sense filters, so why not try it? There’s a few different versions. 16/8 is popular. That’s where you only eat in the same 8 hour window each day. Say, from 10 AM to 6 PM. That’s sounds helpful, something I would call “time-restricted ea
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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Modified timestamps and importing

At DevCon 2018, Molly Connolly led a session on data cleaning. During that session, there was a question of how to import data without updating the Modification timestamp. The goal is to display when a user last modified a record, not the developer. Two methods* of doing that were mentioned but there is another, more robust, answer. It’s simple and flexible: create an additional field that references the Modification Timestamp field and set a variable flag when you don’t want to update it. Le
David Jondreau

David Jondreau

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