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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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Phone Filter Part Two

This is part 2 of the phone filtering solution. If you haven't read part 1 then it's a good idea to start there. Even if you are familiar with filtering phone numbers already and just want to read about the recursive version, it's still best to read part 1 to familiarize yourself with the approach. And, you never know, you might find a nugget of truth! View the full article
John Mark Osborne

John Mark Osborne

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Custom Function Database - Part 8

Planning out your UX (user experience) obviously requires less work on a smaller solution than it does within a larger solution. I guess that goes without saying, but no matter what solution you start working on, it will always seems to grow and expand to add new features and functionality. While you can’t always plan for what you don’t know is coming down the road, you can certainly work with what you have in front of you. Trying to prototype and account for how your solution will be used is w
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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Custom Function Database - Part 8

Planning out your UX (user experience) obviously requires less work on a smaller solution than it does within a larger solution. I guess that goes without saying, but no matter what solution you start working on, it will always seems to grow and expand to add new features and functionality. While you can’t always plan for what you don’t know is coming down the road, you can certainly work with what you have in front of you. Trying to prototype and account for how your solution will be used is w
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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FileMaker Pro Hierarchical Portal Filtering 2.1

Hierarchical Portal Filtering using FileMaker Pro 15 By Andy Persons Way back in 1996/97, I developed my original hierarchical portal filtering technique using FileMaker Pro 3. Twenty years later, we decided to take another look and update it for FileMaker Pro 15. Several alternate approaches have been developed in the interim for the hierarchical portal filtering technique (including a “lite” approach by my colleague Doug West). After reviewing them, we believe the original approach still ha
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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FileMaker Go Drives Cattle Feed Firm into the 21st Century

Custom Mobile App Puts iPads Out to Pasture (Literally) A farmer loads liquid feed from a distillery in Owensboro, KY, 1938 / Russell Lee, U.S. Farm Security Administration Cattle farmers have been using liquid feed supplements for more than a century. The practice is not new. What has changed over time, though, is the delivery process and precision with which dealers can custom formulate liquid feeds to meet the specific needs of individual livestock herds. Decades ago, farmers squ
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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Progress Bars, Gantt Charting - FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick: FileMaker Pro

FileMaker Pro Progress Bars, chapter 5: Gantt-Man By Andy Persons In which nothing can Bar our intrepid code from Progressing to Uncharted territory! We received an interesting variety of responses to our FileMaker Pro Progress Bars demo files. Can you make it show an image for the foreground? How about an animated gif? It’s too blurry; can you sharpen it up? Any chance it can do my taxes? One of the requests that piqued our interest was the ability to have the foreground color
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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Hide-n-Seek a Button in a FileMaker Pro Portal Row

Ready to Play Hide and Seek with a Button in a FileMaker Pro Portal Row? By Rob Poelking I just figured this out and thought it was cool enough to share with you. It’s pretty commonplace to put a button over a FileMaker Pro portal row object to trigger an event related to that particular row. But sometimes you don’t want a button across the entire row. So then we typically put a visual button off to the side like an “edit” button, but the result can be unsightly seeing “edit” repeated a d
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eXcelisys

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FileMaker Go Takes Center Stage with Scrub Management Solution

FileMaker Go Takes Center Stage with Scrub Management Solution Kiosk System Cuts Costs, Boosts Compliance Thanks to Custom iPad App Medical facility managers are always looking for ways to bend the cost curve and ensure compliance with all of the regulations faced on a daily basis — while at the same time safeguarding patient care. Sai Systems Technologies understands this operational predicament and strives to provide compliance management systems to the healthcare industry to ease the burd
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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FileMaker Integrations

Building a Dynamic and Robust FileMaker System

Have you ever inherited a system built by someone else, changed a field’s name and everything stopped working? The issue, hardcoded names used in indirection, makes the system fragile. FileMaker provides developers many methods to add flexibility using indirection. However when these instances of indirection are not treated properly they will raise all sorts of problems. In this article you will learn best practices regarding indirection that will help you build a dynamic and robust FileMaker sy

Phone Filter (Part 1)

Phone formatting is one of my favorite techniques because it teaches so many important concepts. The interaction between a complex formula, auto-entry and validation is fascinating to me. There are so many possibilities, as well as potential hazards, when combining different components. When you get the hang of it, there is nothing like the feeling of weaving a new ability through the union of multiple features. View the full article
John Mark Osborne

John Mark Osborne

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Phone Filter Part One

Phone formatting is one of my favorite techniques because it teaches so many important concepts. The interaction between a complex formula, auto-entry and validation is fascinating to me. There are so many possibilities, as well as potential hazards, when combining different components. When you get the hang of it, there is nothing like the feeling of weaving a new ability through the union of multiple features. View the full article
John Mark Osborne

John Mark Osborne

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Phone Filter Part One

Phone formatting is one of my favorite techniques because it teaches so many important concepts. The interaction between a complex formula, auto-entry and validation is fascinating to me. There are so many possibilities, as well as potential hazards, when combining different components. When you get the hang of it, there is nothing like the feeling of weaving a new ability through the union of multiple features. View the full article
John Mark Osborne

John Mark Osborne

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Custom Function Database - Part 7

What would software be without icons? Would it be like looking at a tree without leaves? For some reason, a tree just looks more like a tree when it has leaves. Right? So, this video is about how FileMaker uses SVG icons within it’s buttons. If you’ve always wondered how to make the most of FileMaker’s support of SVG icons, then look no further. In this video I’ll show you my own personal workflow for creating and integrating icons into a FileMaker solutions. You can integrate icons into your s
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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Custom Function Database - Part 7

What would software be without icons? Would it be like looking at a tree without leaves? For some reason, a tree just looks more like a tree when it has leaves. Right? So, this video is about how FileMaker uses SVG icons within it’s buttons. If you’ve always wondered how to make the most of FileMaker’s support of SVG icons, then look no further. In this video I’ll show you my own personal workflow for creating and integrating icons into a FileMaker solutions. You can integrate icons into your s
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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Trigger Tightrope

Script Triggers are one of the most fascinating features in FileMaker. Triggers augment existing features like auto-enter and validation as well as introduce completely new functionality not available through button driven scripting alone. The ability to define a script to execute based on a defined event fills so many gaps, their power can never be underestimated. There is no doubt amazing features can be created using Script Triggers. With the power of FileMaker scripting firing behind the sce
John Mark Osborne

John Mark Osborne

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Custom Function Database - Part 6

There comes a time when every great database must acquire a brand new look. This really applies if you’ve never even given your database a user interface or you’re looking to revamp the one you currently have. The best place to start, I find, is with the “primary objective” of the interface. In fact, I would argue that it’s best to focus on the number 1,2 and 3 aspects or goals of the user interface. I do this for every single layout being designed. By doing this before you start to throw field
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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Custom Function Database - Part 6

There comes a time when every great database must acquire a brand new look. This really applies if you’ve never even given your database a user interface or you’re looking to revamp the one you currently have. The best place to start, I find, is with the “primary objective” of the interface. In fact, I would argue that it’s best to focus on the number 1,2 and 3 aspects or goals of the user interface. I do this for every single layout being designed. By doing this before you start to throw field
FileMaker Magazine

FileMaker Magazine

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DB Services News & Announcements

Why Your Business Should Use a Custom App

Businesses are realizing that off the shelf apps just aren’t meeting the unique organizational and process oriented needs of their company as well as a custom app is able to. Custom apps are helping businesses manage scattered data and processes better than ever. Organizations are more efficient, more effective, want a better way to work, and better insights to make decisions. Learn why there has never been a better time to build a custom app for your organization. https://www.dbservices.com/art

Field Forestry

It’s easier to type in all your fields at one sitting and never enter Manage Database again. However, most people can’t plan a solution that extensively and frankly, it really isn’t necessary. FileMaker is very forgiving and will let you add, change or delete fields and automatically update all references or even warn you if the field is used somewhere like in a relationship. With that said, it is still ideal to enter the bulk of your fields in one sitting, especially if your requirements docume
John Mark Osborne

John Mark Osborne

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PDF with Embedded Links

Author’s note: I’d like to offer a big thank you to Christian Schmitz of Monkeybread Software, not only for creating and continually improving a fantastic plug-in, but also for promptly and patiently answering my many questions. A few weeks ago we looked at creating a table of contents for a PDF containing nine individual reports. […] View the full article
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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