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Author’s note: Inevitable comparisons will be drawn between the new While function and the venerable CustomList custom function, which I wrote about at length several years ago. Preliminary testing indicates that CustomList is faster under certain circumstances and While is faster under others. In my opinion, both of them belong in your developer tool kit. […]
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Michael Layne from Gearbox Solutions presents on FileMaker’s new JSON functions. He does a deep dive into FileMaker’s new JSON functions and demos several examples of how they are using JSON for passing parameters, populating form data, validation and rollback, managing session info such as value lists as global. Michael also demos REST client and REST server with new data API.
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[ 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
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
FileMaker Kanban is the latest tool that offers familiar functionality for users and flexibility for the developer. It offers great functionality and organizes your data visually into lanes and cards.
The post FileMaker Kanban: Organize Your Data appeared first on Geist Interactive.
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<p>If you are in the Lexington, Kentucky area on Thursday, 8/7, you are invited to join us at an App Spotlight - FileMaker: Thursday, 8/7, 9am, Apple Store
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<p>Join us Tuesday, August 19, for a free one-hour webinar at 2pm (EST)/ 1pm (CST)/ 11am (PST). This session is for any FileMaker Pro developer, Project Managers and IT Managers. Register now.</p>
<p>Having the support of IT is critical to any successful FileMaker deployment. What can you do as the Developer
If you haven’t played with flights on Virgin America’s new site you should definitely check it out. A great rethink of the flight booking workflow, it’s also a nice argument for the long-scrolling site.
Big, sexy date pickers are dear to my heart. Book a flight. Details on the redesign, Work & CO, and their use of AngularJS here.
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When it comes to creating child records records in FileMaker we have a couple of different options available. The first is to enable “Allow creation of records via this relationship” on the relationship graph. This displays an empty set of fields in the last portal row so that the user can enter data and create a record. The second method is to create a button located outside the portal that creates a new record ready for the user to enter their data.
A new feature that we have been using exte
Syncing FileMaker Go
We got some great questions about sync in our last webinar and we’ve posted a video below. Big thanks to Todd Geist for joining me to answer questions and talk sync…
If you’d like to attend and ask your own questions we have two more sync webinars scheduled:
August 5, 10am PST – https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/reg…38086638329090
Aug 13, 3pm PST – https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/reg…29797594544130
Both webinars will have the same format as the original with Todd Gei
<h4>Excelisys Vendor Session at FileMaker DevCon 2014</h4>
<h4>Tuesday July 29th from 9am-10:15AM in the Periwinkle Room</h4>
<h4>Let’s Explore the BT4 and More!</h4>
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<p>With over 100K downloads, the Excelisys Business Tracker has become an essential tool for many successful businesses. You can check out the latest enhancements and learn some additional cool tips-n-tricks as we explore the next rev of this efficient
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FileMaker DevCon 2014
is just around the corner and I’m busy planning my schedule and getting ready for my presentation. I look forward to attending DevCon each year and I’m always glad to connect in person with friends and colleagues from all over the world. I’m also excited about exploring San Antonio – I’ve heard it’s a fun town and the River Walk is something everyone should make time for.
I thought I’d share my schedule and I hope you’ll join us at one of these events:
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This video and example file demonstrates how to sync just the records relevant to your current location. This is a very common workflow in offline solutions and it helps keep the found set on your mobile device nice and small: meaning faster syncs and a better experience for folks in the field who don’t have to page through a bunch of irrelevant records.
Filtering using Find Requests
Todd Geist put together this sweet example file and video to show off the filtering in GoZync 5. “Filtering” le
Over the past dozen years, I have discussed in a number of venues the necessity for robust security practices and the techniques needed to implement them on the FileMaker Platform. Such discussions have as their underlying framework a fairly traditional Information Security paradigm.
There are Threat Agents who seek to initiate Exploits or Threats that negatively Impact the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability of FileMaker Platform systems or other Digital Assets. These attacks also
If you’re working in an office with Active Directory and you have more than a couple of computers to install FileMaker Pro on it can be very convenient to use a Group Policy Object to deploy FileMaker to different computers on your domain. This prevents you from having to go to each machine and run the setup program. A GPO can also be used to install updates or uninstall FileMake Pro to different machines on your network. This guide will show you how to set up a GPO to deploy FileMaker Pro to
If you’re working in an office with Active Directory and you have more than a couple of computers to install FileMaker Pro on it can be very convenient to use a Group Policy Object to deploy FileMaker to different computers on your domain. This prevents you from having to go to each machine and run the setup program. A GPO can also be used to install updates or uninstall FileMake Pro to different machines on your network. This guide will show you how to set up a GPO to deploy FileMaker Pro to
Pleasantly surprised at how some of the native behaviors we thought we’d have to script for WebDirect are working really well.
Find mode – we’re using a dedicated find layout here but no crazy scripting.
Quick Find
Native sorting in WebDirect
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The phrase game changer is one of those phrases that can potentially be good or bad depending on the connotation given to it. To this effect I want to talk about both. The good I want to talk about are things that we take for granted like large steps up in the industry, or potentially amazing feats...
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The phrase game changer is one of those phrases that can potentially be good or bad depending on the connotation given to it. To this effect I want to talk about both. The good I want to talk about are things that we take for granted like large steps up in the industry, or potentially amazing feats...
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<p>If you are in the Nashville or Memphis area next week, you are invited to join us at either App Spotlight - FileMaker: Tuesday, 7/15, 8:30am, Apple Stor
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<p>Join us <strong>Tuesday, July 15th</strong>, for a free one-hour webinar at 2pm (EST)/ 1pm (CST)/ 11am (PST). This session is for any FileMaker Pro developer and/or "power user" who wants to satisfy the need for fast database access while out of the office. <a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/regis
Todd and I spent a week in Seattle together finishing up the latest version of GoZync: version 5. (GoZync is our scriptable sync framework for FileMaker: free and pro versions are available.) It’s hard to believe GoZync is now 3 years old, the first version having been released in June 2011. We’ve synced a lot of files since then. =)
Faster FileMaker Sync
You’ll see substantial speed improvements when pulling records down to your mobile device thanks to the new Perform Script on Server (PSOS
In this followup to the Sliding Drawers article, we take the technique one step further and apply it to the popover object. We discuss the differences between drawers and popovers in relation to the mouse-over technique, and how the process has been modified to better suit popovers...
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Ok I don't blog much so here goes.
I have this process where I need to create 4 records for every customer with different dates per month.
I settled on the process to derive this set of values via Execute SQL because of a few factors.
I need to collect all this data in and have it sorted by date.
Any other method the data would be semi sorted and not naturally in chronological order because of overlap from one customer to the next.
But i also needed another UUID that can wo
The purpose of this lesson is to create a simple PHP page that will make a connection to a FileMaker database hosted on FileMaker Server and pull information that will be displayed as HTML on a webpage. This will help you get started with the basics of using FileMaker Custom Web Publishing
Objectives:
Configure FileMaker Server for CWP access
Configure the database for CWP access
Create a PHP file which will read data from a database and display the result on a web page
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The purpose of this lesson is to create a simple PHP page that will make a connection to a FileMaker database hosted on FileMaker Server and pull information that will be displayed as HTML on a webpage. This will help you get started with the basics of using FileMaker Custom Web Publishing
Objectives:
Configure FileMaker Server for CWP access
Configure the database for CWP access
Create a PHP file which will read data from a database and display t
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