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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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  • 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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It’s Sorta a Value List Thing

Editor’s note: Today it’s my privilege to present an informative guest article written by Jonathan Fletcher on the elusive topic of sorted dynamic value lists. Jonathan is a well-regarded, thoughtful and thought-provoking fixture in the FileMaker community, known for his generous and frequent contributions to various online FileMaker forums. Have you ever had a need […] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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Sync Case Study: KeyPlus

SeedCode’s customer KeyPlus was recently featured on FileMaker’s UK site showing off their new GoZync-enabled solution for alarm response and reporting. Employees complete incident reports in the field using company iPads and iPhones, this “not only saves time but also helps to prevent errors stemming from employees having to wait until they have returned to the office before typing up reports.” The FileMaker solution has completely streamlined the business. Clients are now updated much mo
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker Pro Code 39 Barcode Generator: Without Fonts or Plug-Ins!

<h2>Using FileMaker Pro to generate Code 39 barcodes without the need for fonts or plug-ins.</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>By <a href="http://www.excelisys.com/our-team-custom-database-consultants.php" target="_blank">Doug West</a>, Product/Project manager for <a href="http://www.excelisys.com" target="_blank">Excelisys</a>.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><span style="font-size: 13px;">Yet another FREE </spa
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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Two-factor Authentication

Across the web we are a accustomed to the login process. We have a password for this a password for that, or do we. Studies have shown that the more systems we have passwords for the more inclined we are to use the same one. For a hacker this is like having the best skeleton... Source
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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Tab Panels: Seen, Unseen and Simulated

Last time we examined some of the nuances of tab controls, both visible and invisible. Today we’re going to extend the exploration to include simulated and, in demo 5, genuine tab interfaces for layout navigation. Today’s demo files: Tab Panels – Seen, Unseen, etc, v1 Tab Panels – Seen, Unseen, etc, v2 Tab Panels – […] Source
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FileMaker Go: Optimising Data Entry

With FileMaker Go an iOS device offers a superb platform for efficiently entering data on the go. It is easy, however, to overlook behavioral differences between desktop and IOS platforms. So whether you are converting an existing solution or creating a new solution for specific use on an iOS device, you should be aware of... Source
Paul de Halle

Paul de Halle

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AngularJS: LimitTo

Parameter order matters in ng-repeat While building our new timeline app, speed has always been tricky; even if we are trying to show 1k events at once over a span of several years, we hope the app will feel responsive. Accordingly, we’re looping through all available events and reserving a space for them in the DOM whether they are visible or not. This can cause some pretty big slowdowns as our event count grows. Timeline. Events only rendered as users scroll them into view. This all happe
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Excelisys Releases The eX-BizTracker 4!

Excelisys Releases The BizTracker 4, a Jump-Start Template That Dramatically Advances FileMaker Pro® Customization South Bend, IN – November 11, 2013 – Excelisys, Inc., (www.excelisys.com) announced the release of The eX-BizTracker 4, the next generation of the popular flagship eX-File business productivity template for small- to medium-sized businesses. The eX-BizTracker 4 maximizes the latest innovations in FileMaker Pro® 12, resulting in a much leaner customizing tool which is easier t
eXcelisys

eXcelisys

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“Like a sound we can not hear…

…there may be thoughts we can not think.” Without new tools. – Richard Hamming via Bret Victor from “Media for Thinking the Unthinkable”. Wonderful stuff. I see a timeline in many of the representations Victor employs and the temporal nature of a system seems to be part of what he’s emphasizing. (I often need to remind myself, when working on an app, that I’m not “designing a better poster” of a calendar, for example. Rather, it can move; it can be interrogated.) Details: http://worrydream.c
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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New UI for GoZync Case Study

Finally got some images of the new interface FullCity Consulting is using in their GoZync-enabled inspection app. We showed this off in a case study before they’d revised it and this new, sexy version was subsequently featured at DevCon in 2011. Good stuff. Check out the full case study here. FullCity’s new zync-enabled application. The post New UI for GoZync Case Study appeared first on SeedCode. Source
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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FileMaker and Mavericks

Looks like folks will have to update to FileMaker Pro/Advanced 12.0 v5 to be compatible with Mac OS X “Mavericks” (12.0 v4 is NOT compatible). Of greater concern is that FileMaker Server 12 and FMSA 12 are not currently compatible with Mavericks at all, and the update isn’t expected until “later this year”. Joe at 360Works says they’ve done some internal testing, and reports that “it seems to hose the WPE pretty well”. Ugh! Here’s FileMaker’s document on all of that: http://help.filemaker.com/a
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Conditional Tab Panel Access

Challenge: in a system with three privilege sets, Employee, Manager and Administrator, you want to control access to various panels on this tab control like so: As usual in the FileMaker world, there are various approaches you could take, and today we’re going to look at three of them with the help of these three […] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=8576" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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B2B | Business Apps | iPad Business | Skeleton Key

<p><a href="/blog/6-Ways-Your-Business-Can-Use-iPads"><br /><h1>6 Ways Your Business Can Use iPads</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="/images/Blog/businessipad.jpg" align="left"><img width="300" height="227" src="/images/Blog/businessipad.jpg" /></a></p> <p>We've heard most people agree that iPads are awesome personal-productivity tools. We've also heard that it isn't always so easy to use them to bring
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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FM Starting Point 3.1 Released!

FM Starting Point is a completely FREE FileMaker template designed for use with FileMaker® Pro 12, and is focused on small businesses, work groups, and non-profit organizations. These templates were built with the experience gained from working with these target groups for over 22 years. This updated version includes: -Various Improvements -Bug Fixes Feel free to download it now! http://fmstartingpoint.com/ Source
Richard Carlton

Richard Carlton

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Tag Synced Records as “Checked Out”

One of the most popular sync workflows we see involves marking records as checked out when a mobile user downloads them. This can be used, along with FileMaker’s Access Privileges, to prevent hosted users from changing records a mobile user now “owns”. This is very easy to do in GoZync and really shows off how developers can get inside the scripts and change the sync itself: Learn more about checking out records in GoZync’s docs here. The post Tag Synced Records as “Checked Out” appeared fir
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Building Things

“The great secret of System Design is to be able to sense what things can be done easily and elegantly by means of a system and what things are hard–and to stay away from the hard things.” – John Gall The post Building Things appeared first on SeedCode. <a href="http://www.seedcode.com/building-things/" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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GoZync Case Study: STAT Bio-Medical

(For those who’ve seen this before we’re just reposting this, having neglected to move it from our old site. For those who haven’t seen this, check out the video below: a great testimonial of what GoZync can do for a customer.) As featured in the DevCon 2011 Keynote, using Sync Zync For FileMaker Go We were thrilled to see Andy LeCates demonstrate GoZync in the DevCon keynote back in 2011. Andy showed off a deployment of GoZync that Todd Geist integrated into a solution for STAT Bio-Medical.
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Conditional Subsummary Report in Browse Mode

Last time we looked at several summary reporting tricks, including a conditional subsummary (when an item’s Status is “Scheduled” it will have a value in the Substatus field — otherwise Substatus will be blank). The challenge was to generate a summary report showing Substatus only where appropriate, without seeing any annoying empty gray rows beneath […] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=8581" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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FM Academy | User-Centered Applications | Layout Mode Enhancements | Reusable Code

<p><a href="/blog/FM-Academy-Webinar-Implementing-User-Centered-Applications-With-Reusable-Code"><br /><h1>FM Academy Webinar - Implementing User-Centered Applications with Reusable Code</h1> <p></p></a></p> <p><a href="/images/Blog/FMA-150x103.jpg" align="right"><img width="150" height="103" src="/images/Blog/FMA-150x103.jpg" /></a></p> <p>Join us Tuesday, September 24, for a free one-hour webinar at
Skeleton Key

Skeleton Key

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Best practices in layout design for FMGo

1) To create an iOS friendly layout for FMGo, the best practice is to minimize the amount of horizontal and vertical scrolling required to interact on your layout. To achieve the same, we should make a single layout for iPhone having size 320W X 255H and for iPad having size 768W X 673H (instead of making two layouts one for landscape and one for portrait) along with proper anchor locks which will stretch it properly to fit for both the landscape and portrait mode view. 2) We also need to take
Surya Kanta Mekap

Surya Kanta Mekap

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Changes to FileMaker Go in iOS7

Apple’s new operating system for iPhone and iPad changes the way two critical FileMaker functions work in FileMaker Go. While we fully expect a patch from FileMaker very soon, you’ll want to review the issue and either hold off on upgrading to iOS7, retool your FileMaker Go apps, or both. You can read more about this issue, along with our recommendations, here: www.seedcode.com/iOS7 It’s especially important for GoZync users to read up and take this opportunity to update to at least GoZync 4 (
John Sindelar

John Sindelar

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Summary Reporting Tricks

One of the best ways to learn about a particular FileMaker feature or behavior is to build a demo. You might build one in response to a client request, or to try to answer a question somone has asked, or just to see what happens. At any rate, today we’re going to look at three […] <a href="http://www.filemakerhacks.com/?p=8501" rel='nofollow external'>Source</a>
Kevin Frank

Kevin Frank

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