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A Conversation About '2 Factor Authentication'

By Josh Ormond February 8, 2016

[ 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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Hacking Your Own FileMaker Platform Solutions

By Steven H. Blackwell April 7, 2016

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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Learning Privilege Sets

No Access? Watch the preview video here. LearningPrivSets_Pre.mp4 Attachment Size LearningPrivSets.zip 295.57 KB By Matt Petrowsky The security of your FileMaker data should always be a top priority. If you don’t know how to implement FileMaker’s Privilege Sets, then you need to learn as quickly as possible. While the dialogs for security can seem a bit obscure and difficult, it only takes a few trips in and out to get a feel for how you can lock things down. In this video,

FileMaker Magazine

October 22, 2015

Learning Privilege Sets

The security of your FileMaker data should always be a top priority. If you don’t know how to implement FileMaker’s Privilege Sets, then you need to learn as quickly as possible. While the dialogs for security can seem a bit obscure and difficult, it only takes a few trips in and out to get a feel for how you can lock things down. In this video, I showcase a simple system I created which covers topics such as Granting full access to scripts and why, locking off security related fields, using G

FileMaker Magazine

October 22, 2015

New Paradigms In FileMaker Platform Security

New Paradigms In FileMaker Platform Security October 19th 2015 Traditionally, the framework for Information Security management has focused on activities designed to preserve the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of digital assets, and, on occasion, of physical IT infrastructure assets. That focus must now shift; in fact, it is already shifting. By way of a brief review, CIA focuses on three elements: Confidentiality focuses on preventing unauthorized ac

Steven H. Blackwell

October 19, 2015

Desktop/Mobile Hybrid Design

No Access? Watch the preview video here. DesktopMobileDesign_Pre.mp4 Attachment Size DesktopMobileHybridDesign.zip 294.58 KB By Matt Petrowsky More and more these days, we find ourselves jumping back and forth between desktop computers and using our increasingly convenient mobile devices. At least, that’s how it’s been with many of my personal FileMaker projects./Users/matt/Desktop/filemaker-desktop-mobile-design.png While designing for each target device, in an ideal world,

FileMaker Magazine

October 15, 2015

Desktop/Mobile Hybrid Design

More and more these days, we find ourselves jumping back and forth between desktop computers and using our increasingly convenient mobile devices. At least, that’s how it’s been with many of my personal FileMaker projects./Users/matt/Desktop/filemaker-desktop-mobile-design.png While designing for each target device, in an ideal world, is a luxury we’d like to afford, there just isn’t an unlimited supply of time and money. The solution is to create a hybrid design which will work as well on mob

FileMaker Magazine

October 15, 2015

FileMaker Integrations

WordPress Form FileMaker Integration

Learn how to integrate WordPress forms with your FileMaker application in real time using the FileMaker PHP API. Includes a tutorial video. video. https://www.dbservices.com/articles/wordpress-form-filemaker-integration/ dbservices.com

dbservices in FileMaker Integrations

October 15, 2015

SVG Icon Manipulation

Attachment Size SVGIconManipulation.zip 283.58 KB By Matt Petrowsky Download Video Creating a user interface, which looks good at any resolution, was never a concern before there were smartphones. It was when they started packing more and more pixels within the same area that graphics started having issues. With the popular formats of PNG and JPEG, you’re limited in terms of displaying them. The limit is the maximum size/resolution at which the file is exported at. From there, yo

FileMaker Magazine

October 9, 2015

SVG Icon Manipulation

Download Video Creating a user interface, which looks good at any resolution, was never a concern before there were smartphones. It was when they started packing more and more pixels within the same area that graphics started having issues. With the popular formats of PNG and JPEG, you’re limited in terms of displaying them. The limit is the maximum size/resolution at which the file is exported at. From there, you can only go down, scaling up will cause the obvious pixelation we’re familiar wit

FileMaker Magazine

October 9, 2015

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

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 appear in the

eXcelisys

October 8, 2015

Dynamic SVG Interaction

No Access? Watch the preview video here. DynamicSVGInteraction_Pre.mp4 Attachment Size DynamicSVGInteraction.zip 293.42 KB By Matt Petrowsky When you attempt to translate human interaction from the real world into a database, that translation isn’t always the most ideal. Within a database, you’re storing data within rows and columns and the real world isn’t always laid out so neatly. This is where using an image or graphic fills the gap and shortens that bridge of understand

FileMaker Magazine

September 30, 2015

Dynamic SVG Interaction

When you attempt to translate human interaction from the real world into a database, that translation isn’t always the most ideal. Within a database, you’re storing data within rows and columns and the real world isn’t always laid out so neatly. This is where using an image or graphic fills the gap and shortens that bridge of understanding for the user. A good example would be a dental office and scheduling appointments within 2 hour blocks of time throughout the day. The office has a physical

FileMaker Magazine

September 30, 2015

FileMaker Pro Review; an intuitive user experience

I was recently asked by another site to do a FileMaker Pro review, so I think it only fitting to share it here for our readers as well. 🙂 By David Thorp What do you like best about FileMaker Pro? FileMaker Pro takes the core tasks involved with managing, storing and processing information and simplifies them into an intuitive user experience. The best thing about FileMaker Pro is how broadly useful it can be to almost anyone with nearly any level of technical skill. Even as a seasoned File

eXcelisys

September 25, 2015

Found Set Awareness Revisited

Recently a colleague contacted me with some questions about making ExecuteSQL found-set aware, and I realized that while I had addressed aspects of the problem in various blog postings over a multiyear period (for example, here and here), I had not assembled my thoughts into one cohesive, up-to-date article. Well, that shortcoming has now been […] View the full article

Kevin Frank

September 21, 2015

FileMaker Go Interapplication Communication

No Access? Watch the preview video here. InterapplicationCommunication_Pre.mp4 Attachment Size Snapshots_1.zip 2.23 MB By Matt Petrowsky The great thing about FileMaker Pro is it has it’s companion app FileMaker Go. Without FileMaker Go having arrived when the mobile revolution started taking off, FileMaker might have had a hard time staying viable. Because of FileMaker Go, we can build solutions for armies of mobile users heading out in the field. Even better, we can make e

FileMaker Magazine

September 17, 2015

FileMaker Go Interapplication Communication

The great thing about FileMaker Pro is it has it’s companion app FileMaker Go. Without FileMaker Go having arrived when the mobile revolution started taking off, FileMaker might have had a hard time staying viable. Because of FileMaker Go, we can build solutions for armies of mobile users heading out in the field. Even better, we can make easy little applications for ourselves which do cool things. While the limitations within FileMaker are actually quite small, there will always be some burni

FileMaker Magazine

September 17, 2015

L5SimpleFM v 1.0 – A Composer and Laravel 5 friendly PHP package for interacting with hosted FileMaker data

TLDR Overview L5SimpleFM is a PHP package used to provide a simple, readable, declarative syntax for accessing data hosted on a FileMaker Server from a composer-friendly PHP project. The package also has a ServiceProvider class which allows it to be easily pulled into a Laravel 5 project. Read more › The post L5SimpleFM v 1.0 – A Composer and Laravel 5 friendly PHP package for interacting with hosted FileMaker data appeared first on FileMaker Development Company. View the full article

Skeleton Key

September 17, 2015

Join Us for FM Academy Webinar: Options for Licensing FileMaker Platform

Join us Tuesday, September 22, for a free one-hour webinar at 2pm (EST)/ 1pm (CST)/ 11am (PST), as Mark Richman presents Options for Licensing FileMaker Platform. During the webinar, he will explain the different options for connecting users to FileMaker solutions, and demystifies the various options for licensing the technology. Read more › The post Join Us for FM Academy Webinar: Options for Licensing FileMaker Platform appeared first on FileMaker Development Company. View the full articl

Skeleton Key

September 15, 2015

FileMaker Pro Tip-n-Trick: 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 dozen

eXcelisys

September 11, 2015

Cleaning Input Data

Attachment Size CleaningInputData.zip 273.33 KB By Matt Petrowsky Download Video Users make mistakes. There’s no doubt about that. When given the opportunity, they’ll enter characters and text strings you never expected. The easy solution to this problem is to simply control the result of what they’ve input. When capturing the input, there may be a variety of rules regarding how you want the data stored. Do you want to store “4 pm” or 16:00:00? Is the user entering suffixes suc

FileMaker Magazine

September 11, 2015

Cleaning Input Data

Download Video Users make mistakes. There’s no doubt about that. When given the opportunity, they’ll enter characters and text strings you never expected. The easy solution to this problem is to simply control the result of what they’ve input. When capturing the input, there may be a variety of rules regarding how you want the data stored. Do you want to store “4 pm” or 16:00:00? Is the user entering suffixes such as Jr. or Sr. into the last name field or the first name field? Should the inpu

FileMaker Magazine

September 11, 2015

FileMaker Integrations

FileMaker Radius Search

Learn how to perform a radius search within your FileMaker solution by using Google Maps API! Includes a free sample file and tutorial video: https://www.dbservices.com/articles/filemaker-radius-search/ dbservices.com

dbservices in FileMaker Integrations

September 8, 2015

Help iOS users save their data

I ran into a situation recently where a user would not or could not remember to commit their changes before exiting their FileMaker Go solution on their iPad. In this case, the user was using an iPhone or iPad Mini. He pulls it from his pocket, opens a work order, adds some photos and notes, and then sticks the device back in his pocket. Then he does some work (like replacing a window in a building) and then takes some more photos of the completed repair. Read more › The post Help iOS us

Skeleton Key

September 8, 2015

Manipulating CSV Exports

No Access? Watch the preview video here. ManipulatingCSVExports_Pre.mp4 Attachment Size ManipulatingCSVExports.zip 280.29 KB By Matt Petrowsky Exchanging data between systems has always been a matter of format. The output systems needs to output in the expected input format for the inbound system - and it works the same way when going in reverse. When it comes to data interchange formats, some of the most prevalent are arguably CSV (comma separated value) and Tab delimited.

FileMaker Magazine

September 2, 2015