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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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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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What is Responsive Design and Why Does My Site Need it?

Responsive design is something you may have heard about in recent months but may not know exactly what it means or what it’s meant to do. With the way the web is now shaping, Responsive design is something that is key to any online business’s continued survival. So, what is responsive design? A responsively designed... Source

Paul de Halle

January 21, 2014

I have some idea what I’m doing!

Welcome back, in Part 1 I started talking about what it’s been like for me to start learning FileMaker. Today I talk about about what my impressions are having had some experience, what the future might hold, and what I’m expecting to find along the way. Part 2 I’m now three months down the line... Source

Paul de Halle

January 13, 2014

JavaScript, exciting times

Over the past 10 or more years JavaScript has existed as a means of aiding developers in manipulating the DOM or Document Object Model of web browsers, to this day not much has changed, except that JavaScript has grown up and become more powerful. The biggest bugbear with JavaScript was the differences in behaviour between... Source

Paul de Halle

January 8, 2014

25% Off on All FileMaker Templates — through the end of the day

Last day of our Year-End Sale. Get a head start in 2014: all SeedCode offerings are on sale for 25% off through Dec 31. That includes upgrades and additional licenses. So if your solution is growing, or you’d like to quickly add some value for your users, consider bolting on some SeedCode in the new year. And if you’re new to all this, dive in with some of our free stuff. Both the free versions of our Calendar and of GoZync let you add real value to your solutions while learning more about how

John Sindelar

December 31, 2013

I Wish I Could Make A Video Game

Fish. Shredder. Catch the People. Yes, that is the actual name of the game I made with my 5yr old son. It’s a good name. =) Go play. Requires Chrome. Spacebar to fire. (Good luck) Something that I remember fondly as a child was spending hours in front of my Nintendo playing every game I could get my hands on. My classmates and I would even fantasize about making our own video game and drew out some very crude game designs to show off our great ideas. So when I was trying to brainstorm some

John Sindelar

December 31, 2013

Best-Of: FileMaker 13 Buttons and Icons

Making FileMaker 13 Buttons Easy to Modify FileMaker 12 and 13 give us a lot of new tools for making buttons look great. But if you want to use both an icon and text in your button you’ll need to make some tough decisions as this isn’t well supported out of the box. The main issue is that while you can use an image as the fill for a button, you can’t position it to the left or right of the button’s text. This means a lot of folks are making their buttons completely in Photoshop–and making a se

John Sindelar

December 26, 2013

FileMaker Go Development: All I want for Christmas …..

Having developed some solutions for iOS devices over recent months in FileMaker 12 I thought I’d reflect on the recent enhancements provided by the release of FileMaker 13. Clearly FileMaker have put considerable emphasis on the ability to quickly deploy efficient solutions that behave as though they were an integral component of either iPad or... Source

Paul de Halle

December 23, 2013

Generation of QR codes

There are several ways of generating a bar code in FileMaker, the main ones being, a formatted field with a barcode font or using a plugin. The difference being that plugins give more control over the attributes and return a graphic. If you want to generate a QR code there is no font option but we... Source

Paul de Halle

December 17, 2013

FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick – Let’s free-base64 on a Status Progress Bar!

<p> </p> <h2>Hey man, Free-base64 is cool with this FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick of Creating a Progress Status Bar</h2> <p> <br />Or for those who are true nerdy geeks -</p> <h2>All your base64 are belong to us, But We’ll Share this FileMaker Pro 13 Tip-n-Trick of Creating a Progress Status Bar</h2> <p> </p> <h3><em><b>Andy Persons shares his first </b><b>FileMaker

eXcelisys

December 17, 2013

Best Of FileMaker 13 SQL: New Clauses for ExecuteSQL

One of the less obvious, but exciting new features in FileMaker 13 is the two new clauses available in FileMaker’s SQL syntax. It’s less obvious, because you need to read the new FileMaker SQL Reference Guide to see they’ve been added. (Here is the FileMaker 13 SQL Reference. All FM13 docs are here.) The new clauses are OFFSET and FETCH FIRST. We’ve been asking for these functions in the FMSQL engine since the plug-in days, and they’re finally here. They give you the ability to slice your r

John Sindelar

December 17, 2013

Best-Of: FileMaker 13 Animations

More Fun with FileMaker Animations: Slide Panels http://www.seedcode.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AnimatedSwitch.mp4 By carefully positioning images within slide panels we can get a nice animated effect when clicking a simple switch. This doesn’t use any tricky code, just a very careful placement of the image inside a slide control whose radius has been set to match that of the switch image. Just like a regular button, we use a simple script to set the field value our switch represents–th

John Sindelar

December 16, 2013

Year-End Sale: 25% off everything

Start the new year with the tools you need. All SeedCode products are on sale for 25% off through Dec 31. That includes upgrades and additional licenses. So if your solution is growing, or you’d like to quickly add some value for your users, consider bolting on some SeedCode in the new year. And if you’re new to all this, dive in with some of our free stuff. Both the free versions of our Calendar and of GoZync let you add real value to your solutions while learning more about how SeedCode uses

John Sindelar

December 11, 2013

FileMaker Go – Dynamic Script Triggers

<h2>Using Dynamic Script Triggers in FileMaker Go</h2> <p> </p> <h3><b><i>What?</i></b></h3> <p>It was a couple years ago that I was introduced to dynamic script triggering in a video by Matt Petrowski. The basic premise is that you maintain a table with the names of scripts and a label that is presented in a portal view on a layout. You attach a script to an object in that portal and triggering that button would in

eXcelisys

December 11, 2013

Why are HTML standards so important?

Web & HTML standardisation has been a big talking point over the last year with HTML5 now moving into candidate recommendation and becoming very well supported across all the latest major browsers. But why is standardising the web so important? Where do the standards come from? To start explaining why standards are so important for... Source

Paul de Halle

December 9, 2013

FileMaker 13 Popover Bugs & Interesting Behaviors

Popovers are one of my favorite things in FileMaker 13. Like tab panels and slide controls they’re a region within a layout, but unlike our other enclosures they don’t take up any space when they’re not in use. We love them. But they have a couple of unexpected behaviors you’ll want to be aware of as you start putting popovers to work. FileMaker 13 Popover Bugs Selecting a customer in a popover. From the “invoices” starter solution. Issue in Web Direct: Portal buttons fail in all but the

John Sindelar

December 5, 2013

FM13 Best Of: Slide Controls as Refresh Enclosures

FileMaker 13 Slide Controls + Refresh Object = Faster Layouts For starters, don’t forget about the new script step “Refresh Object”– I did. I had some icons whose “hide” status was based on the visibility calc : GetLayoutObjectAttribute ( “Home” ; “isFrontPanel” ) Using a single panel as a refresh enclosure. Now, isFront doesn’t just evaluate as slide panels move around so I’d added a Refresh Window script step to get them to behave. However, the new script step “Refresh Object” app

John Sindelar

December 4, 2013

FileMaker Pro 13 Platform is Released!

<h2>FileMaker launches FileMaker 13 Platform – enables teams to easily create custom business solutions for iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac and the web</h2> <p><em>Features FileMaker WebDirect: Breakthrough technology for running custom business solutions in a web browser</em></p> <p>SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Dec. 3, 2013 – FileMaker, Inc. today unveiled the next-generation platform for business productivity: <a href="http://www.filemaker.com/r/beatles">

eXcelisys

December 3, 2013

FileMaker 13 Hiding Objects

Hiding FileMaker Objects: The Old Way Before FileMaker 13 there was no native way to make an object conditionally visible. And sometimes it seems like we developers spent an inordinate amount of our time working around issues of “reflow” and “visibility”: getting objects to slide into the position vacated by now absent objects, and getting objects to show and hide correctly in the first place. Think of button states, error messages, and admin-only areas of our solutions. Before FileMaker 13

John Sindelar

December 3, 2013

General

Newest Version of FileMaker Platform Brings Significant Major Security Enhancement

Newest Version of FileMaker Platform Brings Significant Major Security Enhancement FileMaker, Inc. today released the latest version of its Platform: FileMaker® Pro 13, FileMaker® Pro 13 Advanced, FileMaker® Server 13, and FileMaker® GO 13. This release brings many significant new features to the platform including the innovative FileMaker WebDirect client access. But to me the most significant enhancement is Encryption of Data at Rest (EAR). Addition of this critical and key function

Steven H. Blackwell in General

December 3, 2013

Sync Logs: Oh How I Love Thee

Ever since we added rich logging to GoZync, I’ve found the logs incredibly helpful. (Look for them to make their way into SeedCode’s next products as well.) Here is a great example of why they’re so cool (and why having a transparent, scriptable sync helps developers)… GoZync maintains the last sync log for each user. A customer recently contacted us to say that their syncs were rolling back due to errors. This was new as they’d been up with GoZync for months. The logs in their hosted file

John Sindelar

December 2, 2013

I have no idea what I’m doing!

First off let me introduce myself to you as the newest member of the development team at Linear Blue. I am currently working here as an apprentice and my journey through that process can be found under our business blog at www.linearblue.com, which I recommend you read if you’d like a back story of where... Source

Paul de Halle

December 2, 2013

Generating Sample Data

Have you ever wanted to generate sample data for one of your solutions that was random in certain ways, but within a defined range or scope? For example, from an existing table of customers… choose 20 at random create between 4 and 8 invoices for each of them dated anywhere between 1 September and 31 […] Source

Kevin Frank

December 1, 2013

What We Love About GoZync

Missed SeedCode in Chicago? If you missed Jeff’s presentation at fmproductconference.com, we’ve published his introduction to GoZync here. This is a great overview of what we love most about GoZync and why we use it whenever our customers need to work with FileMaker offline. Interested in attending a GoZync Webinar? Jeff will be offering webinars on GoZync following the rough outline of this presentation in the next few weeks. Attendance will be limited to 30 people for each webinar so

John Sindelar

November 26, 2013