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You think about going to Claris Engage 2025 in Austin Texas and you wonder what you could do there with a few extra days? Especially if you come over from far away, you may enjoy a few extra days to adjust to the time zone and see the surrounding area. I've been seven times in Texas to various conferences and so I can give you a few ideas on what you could do. If you go to downtown Austin, you can visit the capitol, enjoy a few drinks at the bars in sixth street. At sunset you can see a lot of bats flying out of the Congress Avenue bridge. It's amazing to see. You can visit the cathedral in Austin: West of Austin are …

When you receive an electronic invoice in the formats ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, X-Rechnung or UBL, you may need to visualize the XML file. You can use our DynaPDF functions to extract the XML from the ZUGFeRD invoice. Once you have the XML for one of the formats UBL or Cross Industry Invoice, you may want to convert it to HTML and show it in a web viewer. We leverage the XRechnung Visualization Transformators project from GitHub. This project has a couple of XML stylesheets to convert our invoices to HTML. For this they first convert the UBL or CII XML to an intermediate XML and finally convert that to XML with a second transformation. There is also an alternative ou…

This script utilizes the DynaPDF functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin for FileMaker to add an image into a PDF document. It initializes the DynaPDF library, imports an existing PDF, adds an image to the PDF, and saves the final version. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of each action in the script. 1. Initializing DynaPDF If [ MBS("DynaPDF.IsInitialized") ≠ 1 ] Perform Script [ Specified: From list ; “InitDynaPDF” ; Parameter: ] End If This section checks if the DynaPDF library is initialized. The function MBS("DynaPDF.IsInitialized") returns 1 if DynaPDF is already initialized. If not, the script calls another script (InitDyn…

Sometimes plugin users wonder why the plugin doesn't see the WebViewer on the layout, so let's check the various cases: 1. Empty WebViewer Just put an empty web viewer on a layout. No URL. Does it exist? When you go to the browse mode, you see the outline drawn, but if you ask the plugin about the web viewer, it can't find it. Until FileMaker loads something into the WebViewer, it doesn't exist as a control with the operation system and the plugin can't see it. 2. Blank WebViewer You can put in the URL "about:blank" and then FileMaker creates the WebViewer right away. If you do something in the script trigger for layout entering, you may need a sh…

You have XSLT 1.0 in FileMaker built-in as well as in our plugin function to use XSLT (XML.ApplyStylesheet). With our Saxon functions you get XSLT 3.0 and you can enjoy all the 2.0 and 3.0 features in your FileMaker solution and Xojo applications. XSLT 2.0 and 3.0 introduce several significant improvements and new features compared to XSLT 1.0. Here are the key benefits of XSLT 2.0 and 3.0 over XSLT 1.0: 1. Support for Sequences (XSLT 2.0 & 3.0) XSLT 1.0: It processes XML documents element by element, and only allows a single value (like a string or a node) as the result of an expression. XSLT 2.0/3.0: It supports sequences, meaning that a…

Claris FileMaker Go is a client for iOS devices but there are some key differences from FileMaker Pro. We highlighted these differences in this recording using a special sample file. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this advanced training, Nick Hunter covered how to use Relationships to master logic outside of FileMaker Pro's schema instead of calculations. Check out this mini-series to elevate your development skills. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Updated with FileMaker 21.1, Open Quickly allows a user to access FileMaker's Manage Database, Scripts and Layouts via a search. Check out this recording to learn more about Open Quickly and the update. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

For the 15.1 version of MBS FileMaker Plugin, we made a little change to Text.ReadTextFile to be able to read from /proc directory on Linux. This way you can read various system things. There are hundreds of things you can read there, so let us show you a few useful picks: Memory Information The meminfo entry provides information about memory utilization. This varies for different linux versions, but you should be able to query the text and find the entries you like. Set Variable [ $meminfo ; Value: MBS("Text.ReadTextFile"; "/proc/meminfo") ] The MemTotal is the total memory in the system. MemFree would be the free memory, but on a Linux system free memory…

We'd love to meet you at one of the various FileMaker conferences. Let us show you: The next conference is Claris Engage in two months, the official one from Claris themselves. Stefanie and I are signed up and will be there. If you have questions about the MBS Plugin, please stop us in the hallways and chat with us. We skip the booth this year as we like to enjoy the sessions ourselves and prefer to wander around instead of sitting on the 5th floor. If you like to join, there are still a few tickets available for the early bird pricing. The CodeWave conference for 2025 in Valencia is a great place to meet people from Spain. I visited this conference last y…

Learn how to implement auto-filling addresses using the Google API with Yitzchok Tzvi Fogel in this LiveStream recording! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

FileMaker has the ability to export to Excel, but what if you want more out of this feature? MonkeyBread is the answer! Watch this recording to find out how MBS can improve Excel exports. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We walk over some of the doors of our advent calendar. We talk about ics files, HotkeyWIA, WindowsOCR, ImageCapture, ContinuityCamera, AVRecorder, Printer, PrintDialog, PagesetupDialog and AppleScript functions. More videos 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in - Day 3 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the FileMaker MonkeyBread …

HOnza joined us, with special guest Karl Jreijiri, to do a performance test on FileMaker with 1000s of virtual instances. Watch this recording to see how they used fmBlaze to perform the test and the results! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We walk over some of the doors of our advent calendar. We talk about CURL, DynaPDF, MapView, SendMail, SharingService, XML, Calendar and UNNotification functions. More videos 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in - Day 2 15.0 MonkeyBread FileMaker Plug-in Release with Christian Schmitz 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the…

In this article we want to introduce you the new functions from the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 15.0. Saxon A completely new area that we plan to further expand in the next releases is the connection to the Saxon library. Saxon is a widely used and high-performance software library that specializes in the processing and transformation of XML and XSLT data. It enables developers to manipulate data efficiently and convert it into the desired formats. We would now make these functions from the library available to you in FileMaker. We have already included several functions in this release, but there will certainly be more to come in the future. To find out what…

Today is the day! Join us at 1PM Pacific as we start our 60 Day Claris FileMaker Training for Beginner & Intermediate Developers. While the training will be free to watch live, the Recordings will exclusively be available for paid, active subscribers. Register: https://fmtraining.tv/training-60-day.php

You can use various Amazon web services in FileMaker using our CURL functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin. You need to build the URL and her payload and either pass data in the URL or as POST data, depending on the service. You may easily translate an existing sample call on the AWS documentation for the call you like to make and translate that to setting the various options. The special thing for the AWS requests is the signature to properly encode and hash the credentials. For years we have CURL.SetupAWS function to help signing the requests. But since CURL got the AWSSigV4 Option, we can use our CURL.SetOptionAWSSigV4 function to sign the request on the fly. Th…

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We walk over some of the doors of our advent calendar. We talk about installation, DragDrop, DynaPDF, Contacts, web services and archive functions. More videos 25 Ways to Improve Your Database Using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in - Day 1 Exporting to Excel from FileMaker using MBS 14.5 MonkeyBread FileMaker Plug-in Release Unlocking the Power of PDFs in…

Our new 60 Day Claris FileMaker Training for Beginner and Intermediate Developers starts on January 21st at 1pm Pacific! While the training will be free to watch live, the Recordings will exclusively be available for paid, active subscribers. Register at: https://fmtraining.tv/training-60-day.php

We've heard about Perform Script on Server but what about Perform Script on Client? Kristian Olsen returns to explain how you can forcibly run a script on another client for notifications and much more! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

With the Claris FileMaker platform, you can build upon your knowledge to continue to improve your solutions. Nick Hunter demonstrates how you can elevate your Custom Formatting with some special techniques. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Don't let Custom Finds and Filters slow down your performance in FileMaker. Join Nick Hunter to learn how you can optimize performance by doing these custom finds and filters through Relationships instead. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Christian Schmitz will be wrapping up his “25 Ways to Improve your Database with MBS” miniseries this week. Join him this Thursday (1/16) at 1PM Pacific for Day 3. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4799568847680493155418979764308192133835687019539627925579 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

At the time of this post, MonkeyBread 14.5 is the latest release of the plug-in and we had Christian Schmitz join us for an overview on all the newest functions released. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this LiveStream recording, HOnza is joined by special guest Philipp A. Puls to discuss Mirror Tables and how to minimize the amount of data being sent between FileMaker Pro and Server! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In this article we want to introduce you the new functions from the MBS FileMaker Plugin in version 14.5. Barcode Let's start with a really cool new function. The Barcode.DetectAsJSON function. This function can recognize multiple barcodes on an image and then returns a JSON with the appropriate information. You can even limit the selection of barcodes to be recognized to its type. The following types are available: Aztec, Codabar, Code39, Code93, Code128, DataMatrix, EAN8, EAN13, ITF, PDF417, QRCode, UPCA and UPCE. But you do not have to limit the recognition and so different types of barcodes can be recognized at one time. As a result, we have a lot of informat…

Learn how to get the most out of your Claris FileMaker layout architecture with this 3-day miniseries! Nick Hunter will be covering each layout part and how to leverage them to optimize your layouts. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

What better way to kick off 2025 than with 25 Ways to Improve your Database using the FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in. Join Christian Schmitz this Thursday (1/9) at 1PM Pacific as he presents Day 1 of this 4 day mini series! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4529248201135119259906753660026484692079478446850025014986 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

FMtv is back from holidays and so are the LiveStreams! Julie Sigfrinius joins us this Wednesday (1/8) at 1PM Pacific to talk about the Claris FileMaker annual developer conference, Engage. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=2651653879616220148989428520544466122164503349650018592634 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Have you seen all the entries for the 2024 advent calendar? 24 articles to highlight various MBS Plugin features: The Database Install the MBS FileMaker Plugin Drag & Drop Add GTC with DynaPDF Apple Contacts Sending Out Wishlist Forms Open Files With Roundabout Route Via Temporary Files Weather data with JSON Archives Reading The Wish List Know Your Way Sending Mails Share Files With Apple Dialog XML vCard QR Add Entries In Apple Calendar User Notifications ics-Files Hot Keys Scan and Recognize Continuity Camera and Vision Taking P…

Happy New Year!! Start 2025 with our 60 Day Claris FileMaker Training for Beginner & Intermediate developers. Training begins on January 21st and will be free to watch live, while the recordings will exclusively be available for paid, active subscribers. https://bit.ly/Register60Day

Join Richard today at 1PM Pacific to wrap up our 2-day FileMaker Go breakdown. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=3188447765771379554128178561508278513490263235495108647504 This is the last Stream until January 6th! In the meantime, check out previous recordings in our online subscriber portal: https://fmtraining.tv/psa/ [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We check out the XL functions in MBS FileMaker Plugin to export data from FileMaker to Excel files. With LibXL we can edit xls and xlsx files without having Microsoft Excel installed, do custom imports and exports by scripts. More videos Exporting to Excel from FileMaker using MBS 14.5 MonkeyBread FileMaker Plug-in Release Unlocking the Power of PDFs in FileMake…

Did you know FileMaker Server can now launch PSOS' from within a PSOS? Jacob Taylor and Wim Decorte joined us to talk about the pros and cons of this new Claris FileMaker 21.1 feature. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Since macOS 15.2 we can use Image Playground in our applications. The users love to generate an image with Apple Intelligence. Whether you need a cool image to add to a social post, a placeholder image for some operation, the AI can just generate something based on a few keywords. Our ImagePlayground functions add this functionality to FileMaker. You create the image playground, configure it with maybe a few concept phrases, a source image and then show it. We recommend to show it from a button somewhere in the user interface. # create the controller Set Variable [ $r ; Value: MBS("ImagePlayground.Create") ] # clear words and then add more Set …

HOnza and special guest Vince Menanno joined us to cover local file editing techniques to improve WAN performance. Learn how you can minimize the number of messages exchanged between FileMaker Pro and Server. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

In case you missed it, Transactions received some updates in the Claris FileMaker 21.1 release! Corn Walker from Proof+Geist joined us to cover everything you need to know and ways to avoid friction points. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

As you may know we have a feature where you can add new contextual menu commands to the Script Workspace with our SyntaxColoring.AddContextMenuCommand function. The custom commands can edit script lines, paste some template code or do whatever you like. Read more here Goodies 33: Custom context menu commands and Adding ChatGPT to the ScriptWorkspace context menu For the next MBS FileMaker Plugin version 14.6 we add the possibility to do the same for the contextual menus in Layout and Browse mode for FileMaker. Just call SyntaxColoring.AddContextMenuCommand with the new flags 16 for browse mode and 32 for layout mode. The plugin will show your custom commands and run …

Join Richard Carlton this Thursday at 1PM Pacific as he does a breakdown of Claris FileMaker Go using a special sample file. This fmp12 file will highlight all the key differences between FileMaker Pro and Go. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=1319105545717204600582776380616079472741453606381246698936 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Conner Brock and Andrew LeCates, from Claris, joined us a month ago for the FileMaker 21.1 release. Get a refresher with this recording on all the improvements for FileMaker Server that came with the release! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

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It has been about a month since Claris released the 21.1 update for FileMaker. Just in case you missed it, Doug Wallis joined us to talk about all the cool new features the release came with. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

If you don't use QuickFind too often, this LiveStream may teach you some new tips and tricks for implementing it into your CRM. Join Nick Hunter as he demonstrates how to use QuickFind on FileMaker Server. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

If you have a lot of databases in FileMaker and not all windows are visible, you are certainly a power user with a huge database project. And whenever you go to the window menu to show a window, you have to scan the list to find the one you like. To make live easier, the MBS FileMaker Plugin now sorts this starting with 14.6pr3 later this week. As you see we just sort the menu entries in place if the plugin is installed. Enjoy! Available for macOS only in MBS Plugin 14.6pr3 and later.

Added in the Claris FileMaker 21 update, Open Quickly allows a user to access Manage Database, Scripts and more via a search. Join Richard Carlton this Friday at 1PM Pacific to learn more about this new feature! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=2751114739735327595013100827081965078557336358559148876942 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Join Yitzchok Fogel this Thursday at 1PM Pacific to learn how to auto-fill addresses in FileMaker using JavaScript! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4748028900235415026967014660770460330198147231379484125064 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Many customers in Germany are currently interested in the topic of electronic invoices. With the MBS FileMaker Plugin and the DynaPDF functions, we can help you to implement this in FileMaker solutions. ZUGFeRD If you are looking into the topic of e-invoicing, then you should read on the website of the Forum elektronische Rechnung Deutschland what ZUGFeRD, what XRechnung and what Factur-XX is. Then download the current standard: ZUGFeRD 2.3.2. In the download you will find the specification for ZUGFeRD (and Factur-X). There are also various code lists, schema files and many sample invoices. Display e-invoices The sending of electronic invoices…

As AI continues to evolve, so do the possibilities of integration with the Claris FileMaker platform. Learn how you can add ChatGPT right into your Script Workspace Context Menu with the MBS Plug-in! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

FileMaker allows you to create some amazing collaborative environments, but how do different user sessions affect each other's performance? Check out this LiveStream with HOnza and Johan Hedman to find out more. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

We have a last minute substitution on the field! Tomorrow’s LiveStream (12/4) will be lead by Kristian Olsen instead of Nick Hunter. Join Kristian as he discusses Perform Script on Client at 1PM Pacific! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4796811482961017396529318554648123815568907722729835629809 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

You may know we have over 40 goodies for developers on macOS to make the live easier. And of course also a few things for Windows. But did you know that not only developers enjoy these enhancements, but also your users? While the normal users of your solutions don't enjoy syntax coloring as they don't edit scripts, they may still enjoy our benefits in same places like the search feature in the export dialog. The tooltips in the export dialog tell them the field type so they can identify calculated or container fields easily. Tell your users to install MBS Plugin, even if they don't use any of the functions and just enjoy the search feature. And if one of your use…

Welcome back everyone! This Thursday, at 1PM Pacific, we have HOnza with special guest Karl Jreijiri. They will be performance testing FileMaker with 1000s of virtual instances with the new fmBlaze web app. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4159289326548127037080520854835017679588325494675951659002 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Going to miss our daily LiveStreams over this 3 day Thanksgiving break? Not to worry, you can check out this 3-day recording mini-series on building dashboards and home screens in FileMaker instead! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out this LiveStream on Conditional Formatting with Nick Hunter this Tuesday (Nov. 26th) at 1PM Pacific. Just a friendly reminder, there will be no more LiveStreams the remainder of this week due to Thanksgiving! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=1987560634708160119149545901562204447713098509722150769829 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Unlock the power of PDFs in FileMaker with the MonkeyBread plug-in! Christian Schmitz demonstrates how FileMaker can do an enormous amount with PDFs. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

HOnza returns with special guest Wim Decorte to stress test FileMaker Server! Check out this LiveStream recording for the test, the results, and what they mean. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

For this week's mini-series, Nick Hunter built a brand new theme from scratch! Check out these 3-day LiveStream recordings to learn everything Custom Themes and Shared Styles in Claris FileMaker. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

A new version of the MonkeyBread Plug-in is now available! Join Christian Schmitz to learn about all the new functions in MBS 14.5 this Friday (Nov. 22nd) at 1PM Pacific. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4968912546640349084222378139787915497162512589628472923363 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Join HOnza and special guest Philipp Puls on Nov. 21st at 1PM Pacific to discuss how Mirror Tables in Claris FileMaker can minimize data sent between FileMaker Pro and Server. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4778526646829100209130765450042786978135090214043760418153 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Earlier this year we added the Overlay functions to our MBS FileMaker Plugin. You can use them to show a graphic on screen outside or on-top of the FileMaker windows on macOS and Windows. This is great for showing splash screen with your logo when the solution starts, some navigation or arrows for a tutorial. What you show is up to you and some people just use it as a notification banner. For version 14.5 we add a new function called Overlay.AddWebViewer to the plugin. Use this function to add a web viewer to the overlay instead of a picture. The web viewer can load some HTML plus CSS to show a webpage with transparency. This may include showing images, an ani…

With the release of Claris FileMaker 21.1, FileMaker Server can now fire a PSOS within a PSOS. Join Wim Decorte and Jacob Taylor tomorrow (Nov. 15th) at 1PM Pacific to learn more! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=147061868560772219967626621937918502420058058660199228091 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We check out the various DynaPDF functions in our plugin. Since developers in Germany work on electronic invoices in ZUGFeRD format as well as French developers work on Facture-X, we show functions related to embedding XML data for an invoice in a PDF file. Then we go through merging PDFs, signing them, doing layouts with DynaPDF, drawing barcodes, work with forms and finding text in a PDF. …

Join us tomorrow (November 13th) at a new LiveStream time - 11AM Pacific. Ryan McCann from Claris will share a special update for the Claris FileMaker community! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4661467840783243530274909353031546223351968039817022189150 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Let's help a few FileMaker developers using FileMaker a lot to edit layouts. Sometimes you may want to get the field name for a layout object. Whether you like to paste it to ChatGPT to use the names or you just need to know what field to use for a calculation, a hotkey to get the field name into the clipboard can be very useful. To do this job, we need a little calculation to evaluate at runtime in the layout editor. This would be a Let statement to do four things: First we need to run the copy command in FileMaker's Edit menu. To learn the command codes, please use Menubar.ListMenuCommands to scan the menu bar. In the Menubar.RunMenuCommand …

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We show the ChatGPT example using our CURL functions. Then we walk through the Script Workspace Context Menu Commands example to add ChatGPT to the Script Workspace in FileMaker on macOS. Then we check the Snippets database to add snippets to the Script Workspace for Windows, too. More videos Adding ChatGPT to the ScriptWorkspace Context Menu with the MBS Plug-in 14.4…

Corn Walker joins us today, Nov. 8th at 1PM Pacific, with the Claris FileMaker 21.1 release need-to-knows on Transactions. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=2001357733643526555716879231441438288735984000694732566393 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

The MBS FileMaker Plugin adds various tooltips to FileMaker on macOS. These show very useful information to help writing scripts, calculations and to debug your scripts. Over the years we added more and more details and more locations where we show these tooltips. Let us show you where you find tooltips: Script Workspace and Debugger You can hover the mouse over a field name and the plugin will show you the tooltip. The tooltip shows the field value, type and the field comment. The same works for showing tooltips for a variable. This works both for fields that appear as buttons as well as fields in a text. And you can use it for variables, too. But in …

The Claris FileMaker 21.1 release fun continues with Connor Brock and Andy LeCates. Join us today, Nov. 7th at 1PM Pacific, to talk about what’s new for Claris FileMaker Server in this latest release. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=2293241532764962526912726623214742164421606143947153002101 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

ALERT: New Claris FileMaker release, 21.1! Doug Wallis will be joining us today, Nov. 6th at 1PM Pacific, to discuss everything you need to know about Claris FileMaker Pro 21.1. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=6085731308124081201599787724619349368286622585073266304210 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

John Refrew took over for a weeks worth of LiveStreams all on OData! Start with this Day 1 Introduction as we get ready for 5 days of OData, from the ground up. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out this 4-Day mini-series by Nick Hunter on Vertical Schema Design (VSD). VSD is a method for creating fields without adding fields in the schema with hard-coded calculations. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

360Works’ MirrorSync is the best way to sync data from off-line Claris FileMaker files once you have network access again. Join Jesse Barnum to see how we have pre-setup FM Starting Point 2024 to work with MirrorSync! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

It has now been a year since the layout object "Layout Calculation" was introduced. Calvin Mosiman joins us with some cool tips and tricks to get the most out of it. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Debugging can be one of the most challenging aspects of software development, especially in complex environments like FileMaker. Thankfully, the MBS FileMaker Plugin offers a range of features that make this process more manageable and efficient. Here are six ways the MBS Plugin can transform your debugging experience on macOS. 1. Tooltips for Easy Value Inspection The MBS Plugin enhances the debugger by displaying tooltips that show the contents of variables and fields. When you hover over a variable, a tooltip appears, providing instant access to its value without the need to run additional scripts or create temporary fields for debugging purposes. This real-ti…

Building large scripts can be limiting for various reasons, including performance and debugging. However, Nick Hunter demonstrated in this two-day event how you can build large scripts without sacrificing performance or complicating debugging. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Christian Schmitz kicks off November this Friday, at 1PM Pacific, with a great use for AI in FileMaker using the MonkeyBread Plug-in! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=1893070223436656130734899000064329777345124946434761899974 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

This Halloween (10/31) HOnza has a treat for everyone. Johan Hedman will be joining him at 1PM Pacific to discuss how different user sessions can affect each other’s performance. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=3024414492882733533855072443829724914758180092940998293881 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Do you have field techs who need to perform data entry without a keyboard? Check out this LiveStream to learn how to use AI-powered voice dictation in Claris FileMaker! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

As developers, we’re always on the lookout for ways to enhance our efficiency and streamline our workflows. The MBS FileMaker Plugin has been a valuable ally in this regard, consistently delivering features that make development easier and more intuitive. Today, we’re thrilled to announce an exciting new addition in version 14.5: auto-complete functionality for custom functions! What’s New? Building on last year’s introduction of auto-complete for variables in the Script Workspace, we’re now expanding this time-saving feature to the custom function dialog. This enhancement allows you to effortlessly type and receive automatic suggestions for identifiers, making t…

Christian Schmitz joins us to introduce the latest release for MonkeyBread, 14.4. Learn about the new functions and features in this LiveStream recording. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

For the next plugin version we add the Vision.RectifyDocument function for macOS and iOS to detect a document in a picture and rectify this. This is used internally for DocumentCameraScan function on iOS, but now can be used independently. MBS( "Vision.RectifyDocument"; Image { ; ImageType; FileName } ) To give you an example. You may have the picture on the left and use the function to get the picture on the right side. The function uses machine learning to determinate the picture, process it on machine and provide a new picture. The area with the picture is detected, a transformation matrix is created and a new pic…

Christian Schmitz from MonkeyBread joins us this Friday at 1PM Pacific to show us how to unlock the full power of PDFs in Claris FileMaker with MBS! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=3298402403481105811479514633025967864952121688073253493949 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

HOnza will be brining in special guests to cover a variety of topics. This Thursday, at 1PM Pacific, Wim Decorte joins us to stress test FileMaker Server! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4633379844365985759946905790851087929373148070232094277822 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

From time to time we get asked to provide an example for ChatGPT. Since this is just another web service, we can just handle it with the CURL functions in MBS Plugin. But since we don’t like to block the user interface while ChatGPT processes the request, we use our CURL.PerformInBackground function to run it in the background. Later when finished, it triggers a second script to process the result. The request is build with a call to JSONSetElement here passing the various fields. We include a system message with the request, e.g. “Please translate text to English.” and then pass the text to translate in the user role. This way the user should not be ab…

Recently someone asked about comments for a table and whether we could do something there. In the FileMaker community you find a couple of ideas around this topic, so we through why not. Let us add a comment text for the table definition section of the manage database dialog. But we run into a couple of questions like where to store comments. Should the plugin store them somewhere or should FileMaker store them. Would we have some kind of user interface to enter the comment? We can't just store comments in a local preferences file since others would open the database file and miss the comments. We can't store them in a new separate table as that would not surviv…

Join Nick Hunter next Monday at 1PM Pacific for his latest mini-series, Custom Themes and Shared Styles! Nick will be building a brand new theme from scratch. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4479172721722637528080539430134215517577250771401796165326 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Don't get caught in a loop with no exit in sight! Join Nick Hunter as he breaks down everything Loops when it comes to FileMaker and performing Script on Server in this 3 day mini-series. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

We talked about various things at the FileMaker conference in Rome and security is a concern for everyone. Especially as scripted attacks got frequently. Rename Admin Have you ever put a FileMaker Server on the internet? You may note that people knowing your address try to connect with various account names and passwords. You may want to rename the Admin user everywhere to another name. Since there is a chance someone may try the Admin account and FileMaker locks accounts for 5 minutes if you have 5 incorrect passwords for login within 5 minutes, you may run into the Admin account be blocked. Just use a different name to avoid this. Stop using the defa…

Robert Holsey, Product Manager for Claris Studio, joined us for a full walkthrough! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

When receiving invoices in electronic formats, you have several tasks to implement: Receiving invoice via email. You may use our CURL functions to regularly download emails from your IMAP postbox and use our EmailParser functions to get the attachments. That may include the ZUGFeRD PDF invoice file. Or a pure XML file with invoice data. Extract XML for invoice from PDF Use DynaPDF functions (Lite license or higher) to extract XML from a PDF file using functions for embedded files. We have sample projects for this included with the plugin download. Validate the XML to match the schema using the ZUGFeRD …

In case you missed it, we dropped a new version of FM Starting Point last month! Check out what’s changed in our FREE & UNLOCKED CRM in this LiveStream recording. Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Check out the FMTraining.tv website. Richard Carlton and his team do a daily free live stream about FileMaker to watch. A few days ago Christian Schmitz from Monkeybread Software joined a live episode to talk a bit about the MBS FileMaker Plugin. Watch it on YouTube. We check what is new in 14.4 release: Announcements, new functions and Release Notes. More videos 14.4 MonkeyBread FileMaker Plug-in Release MonkeyBread Plug-in Q&A with Christian Schmitz The FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in - 14.3 Update with Christian Schmitz The FileMaker MonkeyBread Plug-in Q&A Exporting FileMaker Settings into Excel Files u…

Back from the conference in Liechtenstein, I wrote down a few of the tidbits we learnt. Missing serial numbers If you use serial numbers for new records in FileMaker, you may notice that sometimes the serial numbers have a gap. Why could this happen? Someone deleted a record Someone created a record, but never committed it. FileMaker crashed or network got disconnected while a transaction runs, so it never completes. You need to know that on record creation, the client will request a new serial number from the server. If the record doesn't get committed or gets reverted, the serial value is used, but no record saved. If you like to make …

Our LiveStream for tomorrow (Friday the 11th) has been canceled due to staff traveling. However, make sure to check back Monday the 14th at 1PM Pacific for a full week of OData and FileMaker with John Renfrew! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=4114331399492605121190903096102540420383281273793950072154 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Once you've watched HOnza's previous video, "How to Build a Stand-Alone iOS app with Xgode", come back to learn how to build a Native iOS app that connects to FileMaker Server! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Want to learn how to build a stand-alone iOS app without knowing how to use Xcode? Check out this recording of HOnza demonstrating how you can easily accomplish the same results with 24U’s tool - XGode! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Start off your week with a new Nick Hunter 5 Day mini-series on Vertical Schema Design! Today at 1PM pacific we kick off with Day 1. Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=2251217748548876925851683431214709095820730392827675320563 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

360Works’ MirrorSync is the best way to sync data from off-line Claris FileMaker files once you have network access again. Join Jesse Barnum this Friday at 1PM Pacific to see how we have pre-setup FM Starting Point 2024 to work with MirrorSync! Register for the LiveStream: https://fmtraining.tv/register.php?eventid=1017080104128990964223697233078829896421059518245012899635 [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com

Robert Holsey, the Product Manager of Claris Studio, joins us as he dives into the latest improvements to Claris Studio! Future LiveStreams: https://fmtraining.tv/#LIVE [email protected] www.FMTraining.TV www.FMStartingPoint.com www.rcconsulting.com